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Word 2016 Client Save Dialog - weird fonts
Did some further digging and we see the same issue in team sites that have been branded.
The issue is in the call to this URL which is executed by Word:
https://[tenant].sharepoint.com/sites/[sitename]/_vti_bin/owssvr.dll?dialogview=FileSave&FileDialogFilterValue=*.docx&location=
You can enter the same URL in your browser to replicate the issue.
The returned HTML contains no reference to corev4.css. Manually adding this to the response through gets you a correctly rendered page.
- thanks, good spot! how would you "manually add this to the response" ?
Also do you reckon this is a bug and if so - where would I report this to Microsoft? Ah, and noticing I should use google on "owssvr.dll corev4.css" gives another thread in which the same issue is diagnosed and a solution is proposed by a MS employee:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_word-mso_win10/formatting-in-office-2016-open-or-save-as-boxes/92ceef53-fa9b-4abc-bfa3-e3c7b87ecf47?auth=1
- Jan, I've gone through the steps now and have my Save As dialog windows looking a bit healthier :)
- ok, cool - thanks so much for that - superb digging...
I will check that out - from what I can tell it looks like the alternate CSS should be set in the master page rather than from that Design Manager configurationYes, that appears to be the proposed solution. Not a very nice one while we are trying to move past custom masterpages.
If you're already using custom master pages it's not that much of an issue. Otherwise we would look into adding a reference to the corev4.css inside our custom css.