Changing default Thai font in MS Word
Thread poster: Dylan J Hartmann
Dylan J Hartmann
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Oct 15, 2014

Dear friends,

I am getting fed up with having to 'select-all' and change the font to Cordia New or Ansanga New manually every time I open a Thai document in Word. Is there a way that we can set up MS Word to open Thai fonts in one of these preferred fonts instead?

I use MS Word 2011 for Mac, and what I see when I open Thai text documents is rows of empty rectangles and the occasional bold English word as shown below:



Many thanks,

DJ


 
Meta Arkadia
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The Format Settings? Oct 15, 2014

Doesn't Menu | Format | Font, choose font, set Default do the trick?



If not, we shall have to create an Automator action, or an AppleScript.

Cheers,

Hans


 
Meta Arkadia
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Automator Oct 16, 2014

The Automator action has already been provided by our Redmondian friends:



Cheers,

Hans


 
Dylan J Hartmann
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Still doesn't work Mar 12, 2015

How can we make Ansanga New the default font when we switch to Thai language, CMD+Space. Now I am getting Thonburi, which turns into boxes whenever I type a Thai vowel.

 
Dylan J Hartmann
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Fixed with MS Word update Aug 9, 2015

No longer getting this problem with Word 2016!

 
Soonthon LUPKITARO(Ph.D.)
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Windows 7 + MS Office 2003 Jun 8, 2017

ซอฟต์แวร์คู่นี้ยังมีปัญหาสำหรับภาษาไทย โปรดระวัง
(แสดงตัวอักษรไทยบนจอได้ไม่ครบ ขาดหายไปบางตัวในบางคำ)
ผมพยายามแก้ไข ยังไม่สำเร็จ ต้องใช้เวอร์ชั่นอื่นแทน

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Changing default Thai font in MS Word







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