How to fix font errors in Word quickly and effectively

Below, TipsMake will guide you in detail on 2 effective ways to fix font errors in Word.

Cause of error

- Font errors often occur when you download documents from the Internet or copy text from another computer.
- Missing fonts on your computer is also the cause of font errors.
- Text is encoded into special characters or misspelled when there is a font error.

How to fix font errors in Word using Unikey

Step 1: Open the Word document with the problem.

Here we have a text error in .VnTime font, this is a common error that users often encounter. Now let's convert this format to Arial Unicode standard without error.

Because if you try to change it in the usual way, which is to highlight and change the font, the result will be as below.

Step 2: Copy the entire text, if it's in paragraphs, copy the entire paragraph, if it's in paragraphs, just Ctrl + A then Ctrl + C .

Step 3: Then open Unikey, on the main interface of Unikey this function will not appear and we can only press Ctrl + Shift + F6 to display it.

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

When the message Successfully converted RTF clipboard appears , the conversion is complete and we just need to press OK .

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

Use another font to fix the error

Find and download the full set of fonts to your computer.

- You can find and install the Full Font set for your computer to read text files with Font errors.#

After downloading, unzip the downloaded file.

- Copy all the fonts that have just been extracted in the folder

- Go to the C:WindowsFonts folder  and paste all the copied files into it.

- Because the Full Font set may have some Fonts already on your computer's Font system, your computer will report duplicate Fonts. When this happens, you just need to select the items listed below:

+ Select Yes to overwrite the old Font.

+ Select No to skip the Font being copied.

Font errors in Word can make it difficult for users to read documents, especially when converting from PDF, Notepad, or WordPad files to Word. To fix this error, you can use the clipboard transcoding tool or reinstall the Unicode standard font for the document.

If you encounter the problem of missing accented letters when typing or automatically deleting letters in Word, please refer to the ways  to fix the problem of missing accented letters when typing  to maintain effective work. These methods will help you fix the problem and continue working without wasting time looking for a solution.

Samuel Daniel

Update 18 February 2025