Biblical Hebrew Forum

[James Christian <jc.bhebrew AT googlemail.com>]

Hi,
I'm just guessing here but have a feeling that I'm probably right. Microsoft
products usually have what they consider to be 'features' but most of us
consider to be a royal pain in the ... The designers of MS products
genuinely feel that us users are stupid and they know better than us in
areas like:

1) What word we really wanted to type
2) What formatting we wanted to use
3) and other similar areas

For this reason their software is configured to automatically make decisions
for us out of the box. The rare occasion arises when this is genuinely a
help. However, in most cases it's just a hindrance as your experience
illustrates. My guess is that there is some option which you need to uncheck
so that it will stop changing font for you. I can't remember exactly where
the options dialog can be found. It's in one of the standard menus which, of
course, you will have to elongate because MS consider it to be a feature to
have shortened menus which hide what we are really looking for.


James Christian

2009/9/29 Charles Grebe <cgrebe AT briercrest.ca>

> I'm sorry if this is a little off topic but I'm having difficulties with
> Hebrew in MSWord and I don't know where else to turn for answers.
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> The problem is that MS Word will seemingly randomly switch out of my
> Unicode Hebrew font of choice (SBL Hebrew) to my left-to-right default
> font (Times New Roman) while I'm typing Hebrew. I have set the default
> font for Complex Scripts to SBL Hebrew so it should stick. I haven't
> figured out exactly what triggers the switch. I'll be typing in Hebrew
> and then all of a sudden I realize I'm no longer using the SBL Hebrew
> but it's changed to Times New Roman. Note that OpenOffice does NOT have
> this problem. I use both MSOffice and OpenOffice on the same PC using
> Windows XP, and the problem is in MS Office not OpenOffice, so I assume
> the OS is just fine. I usually use OpenOffice for Hebrew but I'm
> switching to MS Word because I'm starting to use more PowerPoint and
> copying and pasting from OpenOffice to MSOffice doesn't always work all
> that well. I should also note that I've had this problem with both
> MSWord 2003 and 2007.
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> Has anyone else had these problems, or know how to get Word to quite
> switching out of the Hebrew font?
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> Thanks in advance,
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> Charles Grebe
> Director of Distance Learning
> Briercrest College and Seminary
> Caronport, SK, Canada
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