>Perhaps you tell me how you deactivated fonts without deleting them,
>this would be of great help to me since I can only use ariel in foxpro
>if I want to avoid getting the error.

I use Adobe Type Manager 4.0, which can dynamically (i.e. even without restarting Windows) activate and deactivate font sets without touching the disk files. Microsoft Font Assistant could do the same thing under Win3.1, but I haven't found a '95 version of that yet.

Jason