Microsoft KB Archive/90997

= Empty Font List in Works for Windows =

Article ID: 90997

Article Last Modified on 9/26/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Works 2.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Works 2.0a

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This article was previously published under Q90997





SUMMARY
When several hundred fonts have been installed in Windows, the font list box on the toolbar and in the Font & Style dialog Box in Works for Windows may be empty. In addition, you may receive an &quot;Out of Memory&quot; error message after selecting Font & Style from the Format menu in a Word Processor document.



Workaround
A workaround is to reduce the number of fonts to eliminate the error and display the fonts in the list box.

The font list is maintained in a 10K buffer that is shared with other dialog components. The font names are stored in this 10K buffer. When the 10K buffer is exceeded, the font list will be empty or you will receive an &quot;Out of Memory&quot; error message when opening the dialog box.

The number of fonts it takes to duplicate this problem depends on the font names and the font variations. For example, Arial requires only 5 bytes of memory for the name, but AvantGarde-Thin-Italic requires 22 bytes. It is difficult to calculate the number of fonts that can be listed in Works for Windows because it depends on the length of the font name and the number of sizes enumerated by the font.

NOTE: This problem does not occur in Works 3.0 and 4.0, 4.5 and 4.5a because these versions allow you to store many more fonts.

Additional query words: 2.00 blank empty limit TrueType max one no none zero 1 0 missing gone absent

Keywords: KB90997

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