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Deleting Old Versions of Fonts
Hello. I currently own a copy of Microsoft Word 2003, running on a Windows XP
System. I have a FONT problem. I notice that when I am using the "Word Art" feature of Microsoft Word, I am presented with quite an extensive array of different fonts from which to select. One of my favorites from this particular list is the font called "Script." I would really like to use this particular font in my normal typing. I think that it would look rather nice as a normal type font; however, I cannot seem to find this font when I am doing regular typing. It seems that I can only use this particular font in the "Word Art" feature of Microsoft Word. "Script" (NOTE: NOT Script MT Bold, but the regular one) does not appear on the normal font list. Obviously, my computer MUST have this font installed if the font is showing up at all, even if only under one portion of Word. However, to be sure, I attempted installing the font "Script" to my computer from the "Fonts" folder in the "Control Panel." Upon trying to install it, I instantly got a message reading, The Script (All res) font is already installed. To install a new version, first remove the old version. So, is this my actual problem? I need to install a new version? How, exactly, would I go about deleting the "old version" from Microsoft Word without deleting the entire font from my computer altogether? Or is there just a specific location in which I need to look in order to obtain this font for regular use? I have searched EVERYWHERE on my hard drive, and I do not seem to be able to find it. I am most frustrated and confused, to say the very least. Any help, tips, or answers at all would be IMMENSELY appreciated. Thank you all so much in advance. I hope I was able to explicate this problem very clearly. Thanks again. |
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Script is a screen font. Word will only display fonts the current prionter
is capable of printing. WordArt is a little more flexible. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Lana A Li wrote: Hello. I currently own a copy of Microsoft Word 2003, running on a Windows XP System. I have a FONT problem. I notice that when I am using the "Word Art" feature of Microsoft Word, I am presented with quite an extensive array of different fonts from which to select. One of my favorites from this particular list is the font called "Script." I would really like to use this particular font in my normal typing. I think that it would look rather nice as a normal type font; however, I cannot seem to find this font when I am doing regular typing. It seems that I can only use this particular font in the "Word Art" feature of Microsoft Word. "Script" (NOTE: NOT Script MT Bold, but the regular one) does not appear on the normal font list. Obviously, my computer MUST have this font installed if the font is showing up at all, even if only under one portion of Word. However, to be sure, I attempted installing the font "Script" to my computer from the "Fonts" folder in the "Control Panel." Upon trying to install it, I instantly got a message reading, "The Script (All res) font is already installed. To install a new version, first remove the old version." So, is this my actual problem? I need to install a new version? How, exactly, would I go about deleting the "old version" from Microsoft Word without deleting the entire font from my computer altogether? Or is there just a specific location in which I need to look in order to obtain this font for regular use? I have searched EVERYWHERE on my hard drive, and I do not seem to be able to find it. I am most frustrated and confused, to say the very least. Any help, tips, or answers at all would be IMMENSELY appreciated. Thank you all so much in advance. I hope I was able to explicate this problem very clearly. Thanks again. |
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Graham,
I have an issue regarding the Courier font that seems like it is somewhat related to the issue of this thread. We have an HP LaserJet 4100 that DOES support the Courier font. On my machine (XP Pro and Word 2000), when the HP LaserJet 4100 is selected as the printer the Courier font appears in the Word font list. This is in agreement with your comment below. I have successfully composed Word documents using the Courier font and printed them to this printer. However, we have another machine (Also running XP Pro and Word 2000) on which the Courier font does NOT appear in the Word font list when the HP LaserJet 4100 is the selected printer. I have confirmed that the Courier font is installed on the machine. If the printer supports the Courier font, then why would that font appear in the Word font list on one machine, but not on the other, when both machines have the font installed? Could it be a problem with the printer driver? --Tom "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Script is a screen font. Word will only display fonts the current prionter is capable of printing. WordArt is a little more flexible. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Lana A Li wrote: Hello. I currently own a copy of Microsoft Word 2003, running on a Windows XP System. I have a FONT problem. I notice that when I am using the "Word Art" feature of Microsoft Word, I am presented with quite an extensive array of different fonts from which to select. One of my favorites from this particular list is the font called "Script." I would really like to use this particular font in my normal typing. I think that it would look rather nice as a normal type font; however, I cannot seem to find this font when I am doing regular typing. It seems that I can only use this particular font in the "Word Art" feature of Microsoft Word. "Script" (NOTE: NOT Script MT Bold, but the regular one) does not appear on the normal font list. Obviously, my computer MUST have this font installed if the font is showing up at all, even if only under one portion of Word. However, to be sure, I attempted installing the font "Script" to my computer from the "Fonts" folder in the "Control Panel." Upon trying to install it, I instantly got a message reading, "The Script (All res) font is already installed. To install a new version, first remove the old version." So, is this my actual problem? I need to install a new version? How, exactly, would I go about deleting the "old version" from Microsoft Word without deleting the entire font from my computer altogether? Or is there just a specific location in which I need to look in order to obtain this font for regular use? I have searched EVERYWHERE on my hard drive, and I do not seem to be able to find it. I am most frustrated and confused, to say the very least. Any help, tips, or answers at all would be IMMENSELY appreciated. Thank you all so much in advance. I hope I was able to explicate this problem very clearly. Thanks again. |
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I think that I have resolved this problem, at least partly.
I logged on to the machine that I previously used to print a document to the HP LaserJet 4100 using the Courier font. I switched to the 4100 printer and the Courier font was NOT listed in the Word font list, whereas I thought that it was yesterday. The only thing that I can think of is that yesterday I initially had a different printer selected--one that supports Courier--and that I composed my test document using Courier BEFORE switching to the 4100 printer. When you do that, Courier will appear in the font box even when the selected printer does not support Courier, but it will NOT appear in the drop-down list of fonts. Hope that's not too confusing. Anyway, this explains why I thought that Courier was appearing in the font list on my machine, and not on the other machine. There is still one thing that I am wondering about, though. The LaserJet 4100 printer DOES in fact support the Courier font (it's on a list of supported fonts that I printed directly from the printer's control panel), but the font does not appear in the Word font list when a printer that is using a PCL 6 driver is selected. I added a printer that uses a PostScript driver, and the Courier font shows up in the Word font list when that printer is selected. Can someone explain this situation? --Tom "Thomas M" wrote in message ... Graham, I have an issue regarding the Courier font that seems like it is somewhat related to the issue of this thread. We have an HP LaserJet 4100 that DOES support the Courier font. On my machine (XP Pro and Word 2000), when the HP LaserJet 4100 is selected as the printer the Courier font appears in the Word font list. This is in agreement with your comment below. I have successfully composed Word documents using the Courier font and printed them to this printer. However, we have another machine (Also running XP Pro and Word 2000) on which the Courier font does NOT appear in the Word font list when the HP LaserJet 4100 is the selected printer. I have confirmed that the Courier font is installed on the machine. If the printer supports the Courier font, then why would that font appear in the Word font list on one machine, but not on the other, when both machines have the font installed? Could it be a problem with the printer driver? --Tom "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Script is a screen font. Word will only display fonts the current prionter is capable of printing. WordArt is a little more flexible. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Lana A Li wrote: Hello. I currently own a copy of Microsoft Word 2003, running on a Windows XP System. I have a FONT problem. I notice that when I am using the "Word Art" feature of Microsoft Word, I am presented with quite an extensive array of different fonts from which to select. One of my favorites from this particular list is the font called "Script." I would really like to use this particular font in my normal typing. I think that it would look rather nice as a normal type font; however, I cannot seem to find this font when I am doing regular typing. It seems that I can only use this particular font in the "Word Art" feature of Microsoft Word. "Script" (NOTE: NOT Script MT Bold, but the regular one) does not appear on the normal font list. Obviously, my computer MUST have this font installed if the font is showing up at all, even if only under one portion of Word. However, to be sure, I attempted installing the font "Script" to my computer from the "Fonts" folder in the "Control Panel." Upon trying to install it, I instantly got a message reading, "The Script (All res) font is already installed. To install a new version, first remove the old version." So, is this my actual problem? I need to install a new version? How, exactly, would I go about deleting the "old version" from Microsoft Word without deleting the entire font from my computer altogether? Or is there just a specific location in which I need to look in order to obtain this font for regular use? I have searched EVERYWHERE on my hard drive, and I do not seem to be able to find it. I am most frustrated and confused, to say the very least. Any help, tips, or answers at all would be IMMENSELY appreciated. Thank you all so much in advance. I hope I was able to explicate this problem very clearly. Thanks again. |
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The resident font in the HP laser printers is addressed as CourierPS. You
can only select fonts that the current printer driver is capable of printing. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Thomas M wrote: I think that I have resolved this problem, at least partly. I logged on to the machine that I previously used to print a document to the HP LaserJet 4100 using the Courier font. I switched to the 4100 printer and the Courier font was NOT listed in the Word font list, whereas I thought that it was yesterday. The only thing that I can think of is that yesterday I initially had a different printer selected--one that supports Courier--and that I composed my test document using Courier BEFORE switching to the 4100 printer. When you do that, Courier will appear in the font box even when the selected printer does not support Courier, but it will NOT appear in the drop-down list of fonts. Hope that's not too confusing. Anyway, this explains why I thought that Courier was appearing in the font list on my machine, and not on the other machine. There is still one thing that I am wondering about, though. The LaserJet 4100 printer DOES in fact support the Courier font (it's on a list of supported fonts that I printed directly from the printer's control panel), but the font does not appear in the Word font list when a printer that is using a PCL 6 driver is selected. I added a printer that uses a PostScript driver, and the Courier font shows up in the Word font list when that printer is selected. Can someone explain this situation? --Tom "Thomas M" wrote in message ... Graham, I have an issue regarding the Courier font that seems like it is somewhat related to the issue of this thread. We have an HP LaserJet 4100 that DOES support the Courier font. On my machine (XP Pro and Word 2000), when the HP LaserJet 4100 is selected as the printer the Courier font appears in the Word font list. This is in agreement with your comment below. I have successfully composed Word documents using the Courier font and printed them to this printer. However, we have another machine (Also running XP Pro and Word 2000) on which the Courier font does NOT appear in the Word font list when the HP LaserJet 4100 is the selected printer. I have confirmed that the Courier font is installed on the machine. If the printer supports the Courier font, then why would that font appear in the Word font list on one machine, but not on the other, when both machines have the font installed? Could it be a problem with the printer driver? --Tom "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Script is a screen font. Word will only display fonts the current prionter is capable of printing. WordArt is a little more flexible. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Lana A Li wrote: Hello. I currently own a copy of Microsoft Word 2003, running on a Windows XP System. I have a FONT problem. I notice that when I am using the "Word Art" feature of Microsoft Word, I am presented with quite an extensive array of different fonts from which to select. One of my favorites from this particular list is the font called "Script." I would really like to use this particular font in my normal typing. I think that it would look rather nice as a normal type font; however, I cannot seem to find this font when I am doing regular typing. It seems that I can only use this particular font in the "Word Art" feature of Microsoft Word. "Script" (NOTE: NOT Script MT Bold, but the regular one) does not appear on the normal font list. Obviously, my computer MUST have this font installed if the font is showing up at all, even if only under one portion of Word. However, to be sure, I attempted installing the font "Script" to my computer from the "Fonts" folder in the "Control Panel." Upon trying to install it, I instantly got a message reading, "The Script (All res) font is already installed. To install a new version, first remove the old version." So, is this my actual problem? I need to install a new version? How, exactly, would I go about deleting the "old version" from Microsoft Word without deleting the entire font from my computer altogether? Or is there just a specific location in which I need to look in order to obtain this font for regular use? I have searched EVERYWHERE on my hard drive, and I do not seem to be able to find it. I am most frustrated and confused, to say the very least. Any help, tips, or answers at all would be IMMENSELY appreciated. Thank you all so much in advance. I hope I was able to explicate this problem very clearly. Thanks again. |
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I see. So everything is as it should be. I just needed to get the right
printer driver installed. Thanks for the information! --Tom "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... The resident font in the HP laser printers is addressed as CourierPS. You can only select fonts that the current printer driver is capable of printing. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Thomas M wrote: I think that I have resolved this problem, at least partly. I logged on to the machine that I previously used to print a document to the HP LaserJet 4100 using the Courier font. I switched to the 4100 printer and the Courier font was NOT listed in the Word font list, whereas I thought that it was yesterday. The only thing that I can think of is that yesterday I initially had a different printer selected--one that supports Courier--and that I composed my test document using Courier BEFORE switching to the 4100 printer. When you do that, Courier will appear in the font box even when the selected printer does not support Courier, but it will NOT appear in the drop-down list of fonts. Hope that's not too confusing. Anyway, this explains why I thought that Courier was appearing in the font list on my machine, and not on the other machine. There is still one thing that I am wondering about, though. The LaserJet 4100 printer DOES in fact support the Courier font (it's on a list of supported fonts that I printed directly from the printer's control panel), but the font does not appear in the Word font list when a printer that is using a PCL 6 driver is selected. I added a printer that uses a PostScript driver, and the Courier font shows up in the Word font list when that printer is selected. Can someone explain this situation? --Tom "Thomas M" wrote in message ... Graham, I have an issue regarding the Courier font that seems like it is somewhat related to the issue of this thread. We have an HP LaserJet 4100 that DOES support the Courier font. On my machine (XP Pro and Word 2000), when the HP LaserJet 4100 is selected as the printer the Courier font appears in the Word font list. This is in agreement with your comment below. I have successfully composed Word documents using the Courier font and printed them to this printer. However, we have another machine (Also running XP Pro and Word 2000) on which the Courier font does NOT appear in the Word font list when the HP LaserJet 4100 is the selected printer. I have confirmed that the Courier font is installed on the machine. If the printer supports the Courier font, then why would that font appear in the Word font list on one machine, but not on the other, when both machines have the font installed? Could it be a problem with the printer driver? --Tom "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... Script is a screen font. Word will only display fonts the current prionter is capable of printing. WordArt is a little more flexible. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Lana A Li wrote: Hello. I currently own a copy of Microsoft Word 2003, running on a Windows XP System. I have a FONT problem. I notice that when I am using the "Word Art" feature of Microsoft Word, I am presented with quite an extensive array of different fonts from which to select. One of my favorites from this particular list is the font called "Script." I would really like to use this particular font in my normal typing. I think that it would look rather nice as a normal type font; however, I cannot seem to find this font when I am doing regular typing. It seems that I can only use this particular font in the "Word Art" feature of Microsoft Word. "Script" (NOTE: NOT Script MT Bold, but the regular one) does not appear on the normal font list. Obviously, my computer MUST have this font installed if the font is showing up at all, even if only under one portion of Word. However, to be sure, I attempted installing the font "Script" to my computer from the "Fonts" folder in the "Control Panel." Upon trying to install it, I instantly got a message reading, "The Script (All res) font is already installed. To install a new version, first remove the old version." So, is this my actual problem? I need to install a new version? How, exactly, would I go about deleting the "old version" from Microsoft Word without deleting the entire font from my computer altogether? Or is there just a specific location in which I need to look in order to obtain this font for regular use? I have searched EVERYWHERE on my hard drive, and I do not seem to be able to find it. I am most frustrated and confused, to say the very least. Any help, tips, or answers at all would be IMMENSELY appreciated. Thank you all so much in advance. I hope I was able to explicate this problem very clearly. Thanks again. |
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