Thank you all! finally managed to do it and find a nice looking font to go with it. I see what you are saying too but its also worth noting I rang Adobe about this first and they said it wasn't possible so I guess you are all Tom Cruise. Thanks again. Tom ... View more

To me it should be the other way around, if I'm designing a poster I dont mind choosing fonts in individual symbols. If writing bulk txt in indesign that becomes a nightmare. Thanks for the demo wintrim but i must have set something up wrong as i cant seem to get it to work? Tom ... View more

Hi Annemarie, Illustrator substitutes the font perfectly with another font and no pink box whereas indesign puts an empty pink box there instead with no substitute font? The font is The Goldsmith Vintage, its all very strange. It's happened on 2 Macs now so im sure you can replicate. Tom ... View more

Thanks guys, this seems a really over complex issue for something Illustrator sorts out automatically. Ive tried these and for one reason or another they seem to not work (probably me) and as you shouldn't ascend mountains you can't descend so I'm going to bow out here and get another font. Just seems a real shame. Tom ... View more

Ok hang on so I would go to grep and put find \W but what would I put change to? how to I apply a replacement font? So is \W the symbol for the pink box I take it? Tom ... View more