Simple and Fast Way to Fix Font Errors in Word

How to Fix Font Errors in Word 2021, 2019, 2016, 2010, 2013, 2007, 2003

1. Reasons for Font Errors in Word

- Font errors often occur when downloading documents from the Internet.
- Your computer lacks the necessary fonts that users utilize.

2. Fixing Font Errors in Word using Unikey

Here, Mytour will utilize Unikey as a method to fix font errors in Word. Although this method may be applied to any Word version, please note that not all instances of font errors in Word can be resolved. Nonetheless, this is an easy method that we can implement right away.

Step 1: Here, we have a section of text with errors currently in the .VnTime font, a common font error encountered by users. Now let's change this format to standard Unicode Arial without any errors.

Because if you try to change it using the conventional method of selecting and changing the font, the result will be as follows.

Step 2: Simply copy the entire text segment back, if it's by paragraph then copy the entire paragraph, but if it's the entire passage then just Ctrl + A and Ctrl + C.

Step 3: Then open Unikey, on Unikey's main interface this function won't appear, and we can only press Ctrl + Shift + F6 to display it.

Step 4: Unikey Toolkit tool will appear, here you just need to select the source as TCVN3 (ABC) and the destination as Unicode then click on convert.

When you receive the notification Successfully converted RTF clipboard, the conversion process is completed and you just need to press OK.

Step 5: Now you just need to paste and replace that text segment, you will see the font error in Word has been completely fixed.

3. Fixing Font Errors in Word by Using Different Fonts

Find and download the complete Font set to your computer.

- You can search and install the Full Font set for your computer to read files with font errors.

Once the download is complete, extract the downloaded file.

- Copy all the extracted fonts from the folder.

- Navigate to the folder C:\Windows\Fonts and paste all the copied files there.

- Since the Full Font set may contain some fonts already present in your computer's Font system, your computer may prompt for duplicate fonts. In such cases, simply select the items listed below:

Additionally, if the text with font errors is a Notepad (.txt) file, you can deselect the option Convert clipboard and proceed to select the Source File and Destination File for it, then press Convert.

Font errors in Word make it impossible for users to read the document content. With the detailed instructions above, you can easily fix font errors in Word, enabling efficient operation and utilization of Word documents.

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Usually when converting text files like PDFs, Wordpad, or HTML files to Word documents, we may encounter cases where the Word document has font errors. In that situation, refer to How to Fix Font Errors After Conversion for any text file to resolve it.

Apart from font errors, there are many other issues related to the Word input process that users may encounter, one of which is typing errors like missing characters, automatic deletion of characters in Word. If you are facing this issue, refer to How to Fix Missing Characters, Automatic Deletion of Characters in Word guide we shared earlier, hoping you will find a solution to complete your work efficiently and save time searching for solutions.

Furthermore, if you encounter automatic character spacing issues in Word while composing a document (for example, typing 'Mytour' results in 't ai mi en p hi'), our article on fixing character spacing in Word will help you understand the causes and solutions to your problem.

You can also refer to quick text translation from English to Vietnamese in Word to easily translate text from English to Vietnamese when dealing with different languages.