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font identification
I have a document. The original font may not be installed
on the present computer how can I discover what the original font was. When I click or highlight the word the font identification area in the toolbar is blank. I have a printed copy of the document and want to reproduce the page using the original font. not too sure how to use this newsgroup so my email is: . Would appreciate any help. Seth |
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You don't say what version of Word you're using, but if you're using 2000, XP
or 2003, you can go to Tools Options Compatibility. On that screen you will see a font substitution button. If you click that, it will tell you which fonts in the document are being substituted on your screen with a different one. Genine "seth" wrote: I have a document. The original font may not be installed on the present computer how can I discover what the original font was. When I click or highlight the word the font identification area in the toolbar is blank. I have a printed copy of the document and want to reproduce the page using the original font. not too sure how to use this newsgroup so my email is: . Would appreciate any help. Seth |
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Thankyou so much for your reply. It doesn't quite address
my problem though. I did as you suggested but on a number of documents it said 'no font substitution necessary, yet the font displayed and when printed is different than what it used to be on my old computer. I have 'word 2000' and I am using 'word art' on the documents. I am printing labels. If you know of any other things I might do to get it to revert to its original font I would greatly appreciate it. Further I have installed all the fonts that were on the old computer as i have the original font cd and it still does not go back to the original font. Seth -----Original Message----- You don't say what version of Word you're using, but if you're using 2000, XP or 2003, you can go to Tools Options Compatibility. On that screen you will see a font substitution button. If you click that, it will tell you which fonts in the document are being substituted on your screen with a different one. Genine "seth" wrote: I have a document. The original font may not be installed on the present computer how can I discover what the original font was. When I click or highlight the word the font identification area in the toolbar is blank. I have a printed copy of the document and want to reproduce the page using the original font. not too sure how to use this newsgroup so my email is: . Would appreciate any help. Seth . |
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Hi Seth,
There's probably no simple way to find all the fonts that have been used in WordArt. You can locate WordArt if you use "Edit Find" and search for ^g (graphics). If you then double-click on the WordArt (= edit it), you can see the font. You can also see all those fonts if you open the document with the "Recover text from any file" filter (but don't save it after you opened it that way! Better make a backup!). It may be difficult to locate them, though. Or save as XML, HTML, or RTF. You can see the font names in those formats too, if you then open the files as text files. Again, it probably won't be easy to locate the WordArt and the font names. Perhaps if you analyze the XML file (or HTML/RTF), you can figure out how WordArt is encoded, and write a macro to get a list of all the used fonts. Regards, Klaus |
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