"Exploring" the MS Office 2003 Basic CD, I found all of the fonts listed in my previous post's link. None of these were installed into my font folder. I did find the instructions (see below) to install these fonts after Office has been installed. However, in step #8, I have no "Fonts" listed. HMMMMMMM. Maybe this is because this is the "Basic" OEM version of Office ? But then why are all the fonts on the installation CD ? I'm stumped.
1. Go to Start - Control Panel - Add/Remove Programs. 2. Locate and select Microsoft Office 2003. Mine is Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003. Yours may be different. 3. Click the "Change" button 4. Check the button that is labeled "Add or Remove Features and click Next 5. Don't change any of the boxes that are checked. But, check the box that says "Choose advanced customization of applications". THIS IS ABSOLUTELY IMPORTANT! 6. Click on Next 7. Click on the + next to Office Shared Features 8. Click on the + next to Fonts 9. Change the Additional True Type Fonts item to "Run from my Computer" 10. Click on Update
The fonts are not listed separately, I think because they are part of the basic instal package. You could try a repair (second option when in add/remove you click change) that should install anything that was missing or got corrupted in the initial instal. You can also check (with the first option, add/remove components) whether any parts of Word were not initially installed and install those.
I take it you did double check in the fonts folder?
Another possibility, is to look inside the cab files on the CD. You don't say if Word is stand alone, part of Office or part of Works suite, but in any case the main files would be in a .cab file. For example I have Office XP pro and in the root directory of the CD there is a cab file called Office1.cab. This contains the .ttf font files for Office XP, so you could extract it from there into a temp folder, then import it into your fonts folder (control panel, fonts, File menu, install new fonts, browse to where you put the font).
Failing that, you could also try googling for free fonts. You might be able to find a near equivalent to the one you want.
Message Edited by JRosenfeld on 12-06-2004 10:39 PM
You should go to the Office Web site and ask the question there. The Online Help is really good, much improved. I found this--
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA010947421033.aspx Note that if you install a different font & share documents, the other users might not be able to read the doc on their computers.
As I said I have Office XP and thast does not have the item you refer to in step 5.
However, as you found the fonts on the CD, I assume you were able to copy or extract them from there to some temp folder on your hard drive and then install from the fonts folder File menu, as indicated in my earlier post? Once they are in the fonts folderr, Word will see them.
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Thanks for both of your replys.
"Exploring" the MS Office 2003 Basic CD, I found all of the fonts listed in my previous post's link. None of these were installed into my font folder. I did find the instructions (see below) to install these fonts after Office has been installed. However, in step #8, I have no "Fonts" listed. HMMMMMMM. Maybe this is because this is the "Basic" OEM version of Office ? But then why are all the fonts on the installation CD ? I'm stumped.
1. Go to Start - Control Panel - Add/Remove Programs.
2. Locate and select Microsoft Office 2003. Mine is Microsoft Office
Professional Edition 2003. Yours may be different.
3. Click the "Change" button
4. Check the button that is labeled "Add or Remove Features and click Next
5. Don't change any of the boxes that are checked. But, check the box that
says "Choose advanced customization of applications". THIS IS ABSOLUTELY
IMPORTANT!
6. Click on Next
7. Click on the + next to Office Shared Features
8. Click on the + next to Fonts
9. Change the Additional True Type Fonts item to "Run from my Computer"
10. Click on Update
JRosenfeld
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The fonts are not listed separately, I think because they are part of the basic instal package. You could try a repair (second option when in add/remove you click change) that should install anything that was missing or got corrupted in the initial instal. You can also check (with the first option, add/remove components) whether any parts of Word were not initially installed and install those.
I take it you did double check in the fonts folder?
Another possibility, is to look inside the cab files on the CD. You don't say if Word is stand alone, part of Office or part of Works suite, but in any case the main files would be in a .cab file. For example I have Office XP pro and in the root directory of the CD there is a cab file called Office1.cab. This contains the .ttf font files for Office XP, so you could extract it from there into a temp folder, then import it into your fonts folder (control panel, fonts, File menu, install new fonts, browse to where you put the font).
Failing that, you could also try googling for free fonts. You might be able to find a near equivalent to the one you want.
Message Edited by JRosenfeld on 12-06-2004 10:39 PM
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As I said I have Office XP and thast does not have the item you refer to in step 5.
However, as you found the fonts on the CD, I assume you were able to copy or extract them from there to some temp folder on your hard drive and then install from the fonts folder File menu, as indicated in my earlier post? Once they are in the fonts folderr, Word will see them.