office and acrobat buttons not showing

Kind of a weird problem started about a week ago. In office picture
manager, the boxes for the next and previous arrows are there, but only
visible when moving the mouse over them. The arrows never show, but it
does work when clicking the box. In acrobat reader, the button for
closing a tab that would have a small x in upper right corner never
shows, but does work if you click the upper right corner.

I'll have to see if any other programs exhibit this behavior. Any ideas
where to look as to what would cause this?

TIA

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Kind of a weird problem started about a week ago. In office picture
manager, the boxes for the next and previous arrows are there, but only
visible when moving the mouse over them. The arrows never show, but it
does work when clicking the box. In acrobat reader, the button for
closing a tab that would have a small x in upper right corner never
shows, but does work if you click the upper right corner.

I'll have to see if any other programs exhibit this behavior. Any
ideas where to look as to what would cause this?

TIA

Corruption of the font that contains those symbols? On this (XP) system,
it's called Marlett. Fire up charmap, and have a look at that font.
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