Microsoft KB Archive/128942

PRJ4: Size Box in Font Dialog Empty With Same Size Selection

PSS ID Number: Q128942 Article last modified on 08-24-1995

4.00 | 4.00

WINDOWS | MACINTOSH

= SYMPTOMS =

In Microsoft Project, if you select multiple fields on a table in your project, and you use the Font dialog box to change the formatting of the text in the fields, one or both of the following symptoms may occur:

  The Size box is empty, even if all of the fonts in the selection are the same size.   When you select a font, font style, color, or underline option and choose OK, you receive the following error message: Value must be between 4 and 127 

= CAUSE =

Size Box Is Empty
This first symptom occurs in both Microsoft Project for Windows and Microsoft Project for the Macintosh when you select multiple fields that contain different fonts. For example, if the Task Name field contains text formatted using Courier, and the Duration field contains text formatted using Times New Roman or Monaco, when you select both fields, and choose Font from the Format menu, both the Font box and the Size box are empty. The Font box is empty, as expected, because you have selected two different fonts. However, the Size box should not be empty if all of the selected fields contains the same font size; the Size box should contain the size of the selected font.

Note that this first symptom in Microsoft Project for Windows is only a visual limitation. Although the Size box should not be empty if the selection contains the same font size, it does not prevent you from formatting the selection as desired. When you choose OK in the Font dialog box while the Size box is empty, the font size in the selection is not modified unless you enter a new value in the Size box.

“Value Must Be Between 4 and 27” Error
The second symptom above occurs only in Microsoft Project for the Macintosh. When you select fields that contain different fonts, the Size box is empty in the Font dialog box as described above. However, if you click OK in the Font dialog box while the Size box is empty, you receive the error message described above. You cannot click OK if the Size box is empty. This means that you cannot apply font formatting to fields that contain different fonts without applying the same font size to the selection.

= WORKAROUNDS =

To apply font formatting to selected fields in Microsoft Project for the Macintosh, use any of the following methods:

Method 1: Select fields that contain the same font size, and enter the font size again in the Size box before you click OK in the Font dialog box.

Method 2: When the font size is not the same in all selected fields, you must enter a value in the Size box to close the Font dialog box. You can then select individual fields in your project and apply the desired font size.

= STATUS =

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

= REFERENCES =

For more information about the Font Command, choose the Search button in Help and type:

font command KBCategory: kbother KBSubcategory:

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