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Deleting Unused Fonts
How do I delete unused fonts?
I intend on copying my current Normal.dotx as a different name to save it and then I want to delete a bunch of the fonts in my Normal.dotx. If I need a deleted font, I can go to by backup file and use it. I have seen the post about which fonts NOT to delete. -- Dave Robinson |
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On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:37:02 -0800, Dave Robinson wrote:
How do I delete unused fonts? I intend on copying my current Normal.dotx as a different name to save it and then I want to delete a bunch of the fonts in my Normal.dotx. If I need a deleted font, I can go to by backup file and use it. I have seen the post about which fonts NOT to delete. Fonts are not "in" normal.dotm or any other part of Word. They're installed in Windows, in the folder C:\Windows\Fonts, and Word (and all other Windows programs) use what's there. To remove fonts, move or delete their files from the Fonts folder. If text in Word is formatted with a font that's no longer available in your copy of Windows, it will substitute another font according to some arcane rules about "similarity". In that case, you can go to Office button Word Options Advanced, in the "Show document content" section, and click the Font Substitution button; the resulting dialog will show you any fonts that have been substituted and let you pick a different substitute. See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...ontsSafely.htm for more information. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Deleting Unused Fonts
Thanks Jay. I will give that a try.
-- Dave Robinson "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 14:37:02 -0800, Dave Robinson wrote: How do I delete unused fonts? I intend on copying my current Normal.dotx as a different name to save it and then I want to delete a bunch of the fonts in my Normal.dotx. If I need a deleted font, I can go to by backup file and use it. I have seen the post about which fonts NOT to delete. Fonts are not "in" normal.dotm or any other part of Word. They're installed in Windows, in the folder C:\Windows\Fonts, and Word (and all other Windows programs) use what's there. To remove fonts, move or delete their files from the Fonts folder. If text in Word is formatted with a font that's no longer available in your copy of Windows, it will substitute another font according to some arcane rules about "similarity". In that case, you can go to Office button Word Options Advanced, in the "Show document content" section, and click the Font Substitution button; the resulting dialog will show you any fonts that have been substituted and let you pick a different substitute. See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Format...ontsSafely.htm for more information. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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