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Am I hallucinating, or could I used to click on Control Panel|Fonts and
preview exactly what I what I was going to use? It seems that now, a useless window with lots of useless information and one small sentence is all I see. Help! Any advice will be gratefully appreciated. -- Regards, P D Sterling New York, Texas & Texas, New York |
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Normally, if you navigate to Control Panel Fonts and double left mouse
click on the font name, a window opens and you see a sample of the font. Is that the result you are getting? Tom MSMVP 1009-2007 "P D Sterling" wrote in message ... Am I hallucinating, or could I used to click on Control Panel|Fonts and preview exactly what I what I was going to use? It seems that now, a useless window with lots of useless information and one small sentence is all I see. Help! Any advice will be gratefully appreciated. -- Regards, P D Sterling New York, Texas & Texas, New York |
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As Tom has said, you can get a font preview in the Fonts dialog, but I
suspect what you're thinking of is the Font list in Word. There is a setting on the Options tab of Tools | Customize to "Show font names in their font." If that box is not checked, you see the fonts listed in a single font (same as any other dropdown). That setting also affects the display of styles in the Styles dropdown (but not the Styles and Formatting task pane). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "P D Sterling" wrote in message ... Am I hallucinating, or could I used to click on Control Panel|Fonts and preview exactly what I what I was going to use? It seems that now, a useless window with lots of useless information and one small sentence is all I see. Help! Any advice will be gratefully appreciated. -- Regards, P D Sterling New York, Texas & Texas, New York |
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gag when I do what you say, it forms a graphic which opens my graphic
editor (Irfanview) - by chance I found that repetitively clicking the right mouse button, it advances to the next font, so that's at least a start. I want a nice script to make an invitation, and expected to check two or three fonts - BTW, I made a spreadsheet and filled a cell with "QWERTYqwerty" then formatted it to Webdings, Wingdings, Wingdings2, and Wingdings3 to have them where I can check out the items. Formatting text should not be this difficult! Thanx for posting! Regards, P D Sterling New York, Texas & Texas, New York Tom Ferguson wrote: Normally, if you navigate to Control Panel Fonts and double left mouse click on the font name, a window opens and you see a sample of the font. Is that the result you are getting? Tom MSMVP 1009-2007 "P D Sterling" wrote in message ... Am I hallucinating, or could I used to click on Control Panel|Fonts and preview exactly what I what I was going to use? It seems that now, a useless window with lots of useless information and one small sentence is all I see. Help! Any advice will be gratefully appreciated. -- Regards, P D Sterling New York, Texas & Texas, New York |
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Ahh! The light clicks on.
When you installed Irfanview, it took over as the default viewer of TrueType font samples. Normally, it is Windows Font Viewer. You can reverse that change. Exactly where the settings are depends on the particular Windows version. Let us know if you want to do that and someone can provide the instructions. Tom MSMVP 1998-2007 "P D Sterling" wrote in message ... gag when I do what you say, it forms a graphic which opens my graphic editor (Irfanview) - by chance I found that repetitively clicking the right mouse button, it advances to the next font, so that's at least a start. I want a nice script to make an invitation, and expected to check two or three fonts - BTW, I made a spreadsheet and filled a cell with "QWERTYqwerty" then formatted it to Webdings, Wingdings, Wingdings2, and Wingdings3 to have them where I can check out the items. Formatting text should not be this difficult! Thanx for posting! Regards, P D Sterling New York, Texas & Texas, New York Tom Ferguson wrote: Normally, if you navigate to Control Panel Fonts and double left mouse click on the font name, a window opens and you see a sample of the font. Is that the result you are getting? Tom MSMVP 1009-2007 "P D Sterling" wrote in message ... Am I hallucinating, or could I used to click on Control Panel|Fonts and preview exactly what I what I was going to use? It seems that now, a useless window with lots of useless information and one small sentence is all I see. Help! Any advice will be gratefully appreciated. -- Regards, P D Sterling New York, Texas & Texas, New York |
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Thx Suzanne - I checked what he said, and I got the thing in Word
straight. Now I have to go font shopping to get what I need added. Thanx for posting! Regards, P D Sterling New York, Texas & Texas, New York Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: As Tom has said, you can get a font preview in the Fonts dialog, but I suspect what you're thinking of is the Font list in Word. There is a setting on the Options tab of Tools | Customize to "Show font names in their font." If that box is not checked, you see the fonts listed in a single font (same as any other dropdown). That setting also affects the display of styles in the Styles dropdown (but not the Styles and Formatting task pane). |
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Also, if you just want a printout of what fonts look like, see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...eGenerator.htm. In the olden days, before the Symbol dialog was as easy to use as it is now (and when some of my symbol fonts didn't show up in the dialog), I made charts of the characters of given fonts, both by ASCII number and by QWERTY layout, but now it's easier to just use the dialog; see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/InsertSpecChars.htm -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "P D Sterling" wrote in message ... Thx Suzanne - I checked what he said, and I got the thing in Word straight. Now I have to go font shopping to get what I need added. Thanx for posting! Regards, P D Sterling New York, Texas & Texas, New York Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: As Tom has said, you can get a font preview in the Fonts dialog, but I suspect what you're thinking of is the Font list in Word. There is a setting on the Options tab of Tools | Customize to "Show font names in their font." If that box is not checked, you see the fonts listed in a single font (same as any other dropdown). That setting also affects the display of styles in the Styles dropdown (but not the Styles and Formatting task pane). |
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