It's not been happening too long. The laptop that it happens on is attached to a network within a primary school that i work for. The teacher takes it home and this is what happens. I did a test database out of access and the same message came up. Have uninstalled the printer drivers and set it up to print to one of the networked printers. It seems to have stopped the error message coming up and within word and excel I can change the fonts etc.
Hopefully that should solve it. Thanks!!