If Noteworthy is able to render the characters correctly when you print directly to your printer (and on screen) then it probably has a music font built in. There are no identifiable font(s) in my Noteworthy program folders, so it must be assumed that they're built into another file, probably directly into the .exe, or are already installed directly in Windows.

If you go to Noteworthy's Help, and put Fonts in for a search string, it tells you that you can select from a font list, but the "fonts" are not identified by any font name(s).

My Noteworthy installation log does show a "copy NWCV15.TTF to Windows\Fonts," so that quite likely is the one you need. If that's the only one Noteworthy uses, Word should be able to use it as well. If it's in your Noteworthy folder but not in Windows\Fonts, it's possible that Noteworthy can use it but Word can't. Copying it to the Windows\Fonts folder should do it.

Depending on how you're making your .pdf files, you may be able to "include fonts" when you make a .pdf. This should embed at least the characters used in the document in the .pdf file so they can be used when the .pdf is printed later on any machine. If you're using one of the simple .pdf makers, and can't embed the fonts that a program uses, you'll need to make all the fonts that Noteworthy uses available when you print the Word file. This usually means copying the fonts to your Windows\Fonts folder, which is how you install them for Windows programs if they're TrueType fonts.

If a .pdf calls for a font that Windows doesn't have, something else will be substituted, both for display and for printing. This is probably what's happening when you get your a k g things. If you can't find Noteworthy's native music font, installing another music font might possibly get a better substitution, but there's no real guarantee. Anastasia is the Windows native music font, but it has a limited set of characters. Maestro and Opus are other widely used ones.

If you can't solve the problem with fonts, it is possible that when you copy from Noteworthy you may be able to use the "Edit | Paste Special" and select a Paste as Graphic or as another format that will give better results. The options offered in the Paste Special dialog will depend on what's in the clipboard.

John