How to remove non-existent font name from old Word doc?

[lphilpot]

I have a document I wrote on MS Word years ago. I’ve loaded it into Writer, edited and saved it as a native odt document. There’s one font I no longer have installed, which got replaced (Bitstream Vera Sans Mono by Liberation Mono). That’s fine, it looks good, but when I cursor over any of those characters my font picker shows this instead of the replaced font:

I’ve tried searching and replacing the font, but I can choose only installed fonts (which this one isn’t). I added this to the global font replacement table, but no cigar.

How do I remove all references to the old non-existent font?

Thanks.

Version: 26.2.3.2 (X86_64)
OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26200)

[EarnestAl]

@lphilpot

I’ve tried searching and replacing the font

To replace the font in a direct formatted document

1. Copy the name of the font that you want to replace from the font box
2. Click Edit > Find and Replace Ctrl+H
3. In the dialogue, click in the Find field and then click Format
   1. In the new dialogue under Western, paste in the name of the font (Bitstream Vera Sans Mono). OK
4. In the main Find and Replace dialogue, click in the Replace field and then click Format
   1. In the new dialogue under Western, select your replacement font, say Liberation Mono. OK
5. Click Replace All

[lphilpot]

That’s exactly what I did, but it didn’t work. After closing and reopening the doc, it now worked. Oh well…

Thanks.