OFF97: Dialog Boxes and UserForms Use Tahoma Font

• Microsoft Office 97 for Windows
• Microsoft Excel 97 for Windows
• Microsoft Word 97 for Windows
• Microsoft Access 97 for Windows
• Microsoft PowerPoint 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

In the programs included in Microsoft Office 97, custom dialog boxes and dialog sheets that you created in earlier programs do not use the MS Sans Serif or Arial fonts. Custom dialog boxes and dialog sheets use the Tahoma font in the programs included in Microsoft Office 97. This behavior may cause very slight spacing differences to appear in text in custom dialog boxes and dialog sheets.

CAUSE

This behavior occurs because the Standard Dialog Manager, which is included with the programs included in Microsoft Office 97, uses the Tahoma font.

MORE INFORMATION

Dialog boxes and UserForms in Microsoft Office 97 for Windows are displayed using the new Tahoma font. This font is designed to be clearer and easier to read than the MS Sans Serif and Arial fonts used by earlier versions of Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Access, and Microsoft PowerPoint.

Because the Tahoma font uses slightly smaller "metrics" than the MS Sans Serif and Arial fonts, you may notice that text within custom dialog boxes and dialog sheets is spaced differently when you view it in the programs included in Microsoft Office 97 than when you view it in earlier versions of the programs. Note that text in the dialog boxes does not overflow or become truncated.