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Changing the character set would create an impact of unknown scale on existing data and code using the affected font. Again, using the example of the alphabet, what would happen to existing documents and applications if we switched around a handful of letters?

The likely result is that we would create significant issues for people, cause some unintended humorous moments and several offensive ones. For that reason Wingdings has been left unaltered since its inception. Wired magazine also interviewed a typographer who noted that the arrangement of symbols in the Wingdings font was surely nothing more than coincidence:.

Changing the character set would create an impact of unknown scale on existing data and code using the affected font. The likely result is that we would create significant issues for people, cause some unintended humorous moments and several offensive ones. For that reason Wingdings has been left unaltered since its inception. It still works today because, put simply, the code behind Wingdings is apparently too complicated to change and a string of errors would ensue if Microsoft chose to.

FB house promo. Sign Up for News Updates. Sign up. In the ensuing dialog box, change the font to something standard, like Arial. The Wingdings in your comments should transform back into something useful.

I bet your last example—the one that says "Formatted" followed by a string that starts with a black telephone—will read. If this works, send a thank-you note to the remarkable Suzanne Barnhill, an MVP who has saved many a perplexed user's bacon including mine, repeatedly over the course of many many years.

If you search this forum for "Balloon Text" you should find Ms. Barnhill's extended discussion dated approx. September 8, about the vagaries evinced by the Balloon Text and Comment Text styles. Yes it does help and thank you.

I have done as you suggest and the balloon text now appears as it should. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread.

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