When Windows 7 and Vista are installed on a system which has a high resolution monitor, the display adapter detects this, at the time of installation and sets the display font size to 125%
When you reset the font size to 100%, it impacts on MS Access. MS Sans Serif disappears from the available font list.
09:08 AM Update: actual issue not fixed, but accepting a workaround as a potential solution. I'm not seeing a way to increase subheading font size and decrease the callout font size. Am I missing something, or is this not a current functionality? The KPI text size is currently way too large. +1 for adding an option to.
MS Access appears normal in Windows XP:
The effect is to screw up the way that some fonts render – where a Microsoft Access database uses MS Sans Serif, a substitute font is used which renders as a larger font. (This distortion may also happen other applications which use the same font – see this post)
MS Sans Serif is Missing in Windows 7:
To fix it you need to add the following to the registry:
Open a blank text file and copy in the following between the lines of asterisks
Save as FontFix.reg, or download it from here then unzip it, double click the file and add it to the registry.
Log off and log on again and when you look in the list of fonts MS Sans Serif will have returned
Before – MS Sans Serif missing:
After – MS Sans Serif present:
The articles below explain in detail:
See also Free Download Windows 7 – Create a Windows 7 Installation DVD or USB Flash Drive
All of the following relate to styles, fonts, and searching for fonts. Please let me know if I should have broken this up into 2-4 separate messages. I just figured they were all linked in some way. (1) Suddenly, regardless of what document I'm working on, Menu | Format | Styles and Formatting (or pressing F11) only shows the paragraph styles that are built into the program when you createa new document (e.g., default, all the Headings, Text body). If I click on the far right tab and then click on the paragraph styles tab, I get the list of all built-in paragraph styles. I do not get the list of paragraph styles used in an existing document. This results in several problems, including the fact that I can't create a new paragraph style. Regarding the items below, the old font is EB Garamond 12; the new one is Adobe Garamond Pro (2) When I click on some text, right-click to bring up the menu, click 'Edit paragraph style', and change the font, it does
not always actually change the style. I've tried changing the font, and if I repeat the above sequence, it shows that the new font is selected. However, the actual text is the old font, verified both by just looking at it, but also in the top menu where it displays the old font. I have to change it manually by selecting the text in question & going to the menu bar. (3) The following suddenly works normally. I have no idea why it wasn't working and now does working FYI Only. If I select text and manually change it to the new font, on any font size above 11.5, the text suddenly goes to line spacing 2 instead of remaining on line spacing 1. Nothing else changes in the paragraph style for the selected text. On the other hand, in some cases, at a specific font size suddenly a great deal of extra space is inserted above that text. An example is my putting text on a sepaate line (and thus a separate paragraph), different font, same size. Things are fine, and if I increase the size to 13 points, things are still fine. However, if I increase the size to 14 points, suddenly an extra line's worth of space is inserted above that paragraph. No settings have changed other than font size. Another example is in the Table of Contents. If I change Contents 2 to 12 point Adobe Garamond Pro, this happens. It didn't happen with EB Garamond 12. (4) Searching for the old font only highlights the problem text the first time. Subsequent finds display the page, but I have to manually search for which text actually is wrong. Given this is a 411-page book, you can imagine how much work this entials. Since all of the above applies to all documents, new & old, I am guessing that somehow the program has been corrupted. I was using v4.1.2, so I upgraded by downloading & installing the full v4.1.3 product, but the same problems exist. All of these problems started the day I originally wrote this, when I changed my Table of Contents Content 2 paragraph style to the new font. The very first thing that happened was #3 above. This is a novel that is supposed to be sent to the publisher & thence to the printer in 2 weeks, so I'm rather desparate to fix these three problems. Any help is very appreciated.