XP putting some typed text in italics

flogen

I recently re-installed XP on my laptop and ever since then some of my programmes seem to automatically display the text I type in italics.

What's odd is that it's only the text I type and not the text I read (on the menu bar, or in the case of Thunderbird in my inbox etc.).

I've noticed it mainly with Thunderbird and Open Office and from what I can see the text is not actually in italics (so as I type the e-mail it appears in italics but when it's sent the person on the other end gets it normally) but it's annoying as hell.

Other programmes (like firefox, for example) don't seem to be effected at all - the text I'm typing now is appearing normally for me.

The only solutions I can find around the place refer to things like menu bars and window titles etc. being in italics and I can't figure out what I'm missing.

Anyone know what it could be?

cpu-dude

flogen wrote: »

I recently re-installed XP on my laptop and ever since then some of my programmes seem to automatically display the text I type in italics.

What's odd is that it's only the text I type and not the text I read (on the menu bar, or in the case of Thunderbird in my inbox etc.).

I've noticed it mainly with Thunderbird and Open Office and from what I can see the text is not actually in italics (so as I type the e-mail it appears in italics but when it's sent the person on the other end gets it normally) but it's annoying as hell.

Other programmes (like firefox, for example) don't seem to be effected at all - the text I'm typing now is appearing normally for me.

The only solutions I can find around the place refer to things like menu bars and window titles etc. being in italics and I can't figure out what I'm missing.

Anyone know what it could be?

Can we see a screenshot of this please?

Also, make sure that Italic isn't on in your appearance settings (Right Desktop > Properties > Appearance > Advanced)

flogen

Sure, I've attached two screenshots - one of Thunderbird and one of OpenOffice.

I've gone through the 'Advanced' list in 'Appearance' too and can't see anything in italics - what's odd is that it's only some programmes and not others. Inputting text in Firefox looks fine, as it does in Notepad, Wordpad etc.

Thanks.

Big Lar

This should sort you out
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/setup/personalize/look.mspx

cpu-dude

flogen wrote: »

Sure, I've attached two screenshots - one of Thunderbird and one of OpenOffice.

I've gone through the 'Advanced' list in 'Appearance' too and can't see anything in italics - what's odd is that it's only some programmes and not others. Inputting text in Firefox looks fine, as it does in Notepad, Wordpad etc.

Thanks.

Try changing your theme to XP Classic and see if it makes a difference.

Google indicates that a corrupt font might be the problem, you should try a System Restore.

EDIT: Here's a link to download the XP Fonts needed - http://forums.xkcd.com/download/file.php?id=2806

Try this also:

Same thing happened to me; just in case somebody else bumps into the problem, here's a solution:

What happened was that for some reason the default Arial font went missing. Firefox and IE then automatically switched to the italics variant of the standard Arial font for displaying text in Arial. The solution is easy: copy a Arial.ttf file back into c:\windows\fonts. - http://rapidshare.com/files/106016380/ARIAL.TTF

flogen

cpu-dude wrote: »

Try changing your theme to XP Classic and see if it makes a difference.

Google indicates that a corrupt font might be the problem, you should try a System Restore.

EDIT: Here's a link to download the XP Fonts needed - http://forums.xkcd.com/download/file.php?id=2806

Try this also:

Bingo - Times New Roman was corrupted so I replaced it with the same from my other laptop and bingo, problem solved.

Many thanks - didn't even occour to me that both of the programmes with the problem were using Times and others (like Firefox) weren't!

cpu-dude

flogen wrote: »

Bingo - Times New Roman was corrupted so I replaced it with the same from my other laptop and bingo, problem solved.

Many thanks - didn't even occour to me that both of the programmes with the problem were using Times and others (like Firefox) weren't!

Yeah, that's actually one thing I particularly like about Firefox, it's not spidered into Windows (own settings, own fonts, own add-ons).

Glad you got the problem sorted.