Question Has anyone else had all of their fonts spontaneously change? (1 Viewer)

fluid · Mar 12, 2018

The font for all my forms and reports have somehow changed to a different font.
Text is now too large to fit into it's boxes and, in some cases, I have no room to accommodate the larger font.

It may be connected to an upgrade from Office 2013 to Office 365. Has anybody else experienced this?

Is it possible that I accidentally did this?

Is it possible to change them all back without having to manually edit every form and report?

EDIT: It may have been the font sizes that changed, not the font type.

isladogs · Mar 12, 2018

IF the fonts changed you probably changed to a different style or modified the style you were using

Ranman256 · Mar 12, 2018

it can happen when the default printer changes.
1 person sees HP4
another opens it and sees Adobe pdf.

Mark_ · Mar 12, 2018

Only time I have seen this happen is when the font is not loaded on the computer.

Are you normally using a special or custom font? Alternately does your machine have a special font set as its default?

fluid · Mar 12, 2018

Is there a way to reduce text size of all text on a form or report, by the same amount, all at once

isladogs · Mar 12, 2018

If all are the same size currently, select all in design view and change all at once to the new font size

If you want to do this using VBA, have a look at this code by the DB Guy:
http://www.utteraccess.com/forum/Font-Size-Change-VBA-t2000871.html

I've not tested it, but from experience anything he posts will work well

gemma-the-husky · Mar 13, 2018

I doubt if this is the problem, but might it be an issue with using windows themed controls as a database setting? Or some other general setting?

The_Doc_Man · Mar 13, 2018

Generally, using Windows themes will adjust colors. Don't recall it ever affecting fonts.

By any chance was that on a Windows 10 system?

We had a case a few months back where it was interacting with the display resolution and there was some kind of - for lack of a better term - a round-off error causing sizes to round UP. You would have seen your desktop font sizes change at the same time if this were the case.

isladogs · Mar 13, 2018

The_Doc_Man said:
Generally, using Windows themes will adjust colors. Don't recall it ever affecting fonts.

Changing the theme will modify the font name to whatever that theme uses but it won't change the size.

Some of the older system fonts (before True Type) were only available in point sizes like 8,10,12 etc but that's rarely an issue these days unless you have a VERY old database

The only other place I've seen fonts spontaneously changing point size is in chart design where they "helpfully" reset themselves to fit the space available ...and them I change them back to what I want again

The_Doc_Man · Mar 13, 2018

Colin, that is true. "System" font is notorious for this kind of limitation, but nobody uses it that often now that Lucida Console is generally available.

Fluid, what type face are you using and is it a True Type font?

Anakardian · Mar 14, 2018

Keep in mind that size is not the same across fonts.
I have found that verdana is about 1 size larger than arial.
No doubt the same can be found between other fonts.

I would not be concerned with the font size immediately but rather figure out how to get the font back to what it was.

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