I have Times New Roman fonts bold, italic in my font folder but they don't
show up in any of my programs like word and quark

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I have Times New Roman fonts bold, italic in my font folder but they
don't show up in any of my programs like word and quark

You do see plain Times New Roman, right? And if you select some text in that
font and make it italic, the letter shapes change -- for example, a regular
letter a has a loop below and a hook above, while an italic a has only the
loop, and other letters such as f and g have noticeably different shapes.
The difference between regular and bold isn't so noticeable, but the stroke
thicknesses vary differently to keep the font readable.

That means Word is really using the separate font files when you apply the
formatting, although for simplicity it only shows one "Times New Roman"
entry in the font list. If it was ignoring the separate files, all the
letter shapes would stay the same and just be slanted or thickened.

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Jay Freedman
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And if that isn't the problem - see
http://www.gmayor.com/where_are_my_fonts.htm

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
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Jay Freedman wrote:
wrote:
I have Times New Roman fonts bold, italic in my font folder but they
don't show up in any of my programs like word and quark

You do see plain Times New Roman, right? And if you select some text
in that font and make it italic, the letter shapes change -- for
example, a regular letter a has a loop below and a hook above, while
an italic a has only the loop, and other letters such as f and g have
noticeably different shapes. The difference between regular and bold
isn't so noticeable, but the stroke thicknesses vary differently to
keep the font readable.

That means Word is really using the separate font files when you
apply the formatting, although for simplicity it only shows one
"Times New Roman" entry in the font list. If it was ignoring the
separate files, all the letter shapes would stay the same and just be
slanted or thickened.

No, Graham, in this instance I think Jay's got it right. It wasn't the fonts
per se that the OP was missing but the bold, italic, and bold italic
variants, which are never displayed.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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all may benefit.

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
And if that isn't the problem - see
http://www.gmayor.com/where_are_my_fonts.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Jay Freedman wrote:
wrote:
I have Times New Roman fonts bold, italic in my font folder but they
don't show up in any of my programs like word and quark

You do see plain Times New Roman, right? And if you select some text
in that font and make it italic, the letter shapes change -- for
example, a regular letter a has a loop below and a hook above, while
an italic a has only the loop, and other letters such as f and g have
noticeably different shapes. The difference between regular and bold
isn't so noticeable, but the stroke thicknesses vary differently to
keep the font readable.

That means Word is really using the separate font files when you
apply the formatting, although for simplicity it only shows one
"Times New Roman" entry in the font list. If it was ignoring the
separate files, all the letter shapes would stay the same and just be
slanted or thickened.