Hello Eamonn,

The problem you describe indicates that Notation Composer is not finding its music notation font, named "Harmony".

Is this a new problem? If so, perhaps it happened after you installed some other software that added more fonts to you Windows system. Versions of Windows up to, and including Windows XP, if I remember correctly, have a problem when there are more than about 300 fonts in your Windows/Fonts directory.

The work-around for that is to move fonts you don't need from the Windows/Fonts directory to some "Rarely Used Fonts" directory that you can create for this purpose. This used to be a more common problem several years ago, so it's a little surprising it is happening to you, unless you're using Windows 98.

And, there's always this: "If all else fails, restart Windows."

Cheers
-- Mark