Sorry Sean, but this is a fresh install copy of Win2k, so that's not the prob... :-) however I think Justin may have been right with his diagnosis.

I had been (slowly) coming to that conclusion myself. If you notice in Win2k Character Map, there are many variants of the same fonts (the new style "Open Type" fonts, which I believe are a cross between the TrueType standard and the Postscript standard fonts). This raised my suspicions, as it seemed that only the OpenType fonts were diplaying this problem...

Like I said in my original post, this is only an annoyance... so is there any way to fix it in Xara 2 (although i will be upgrading to Xara X)

If anyone can rid me of this annoyance then I would be grateful, if not then I suppose I must wait for Xara X...

Thanx [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

M Ward