Computer illiterate numbskull could use a hand...

[Jonathan Ford]

Howdy!

I've just downloaded a font....any idea how to make it available in Word?

Cheers

J


Turds...posted in the wrong forum....should be in P.C. Help.....sorry!

[DiscoPromotions]

Howdy!

I've just downloaded a font....any idea how to make it available in Word?
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It has to be installed to your Windows Font folder

c:\windows\fonts (just copy and paste)

You may need to reboot your machine to get Word to pick up the font..

[DJ Jules]

You may need to reboot your machine to get Word to pick up the font..

Usually you just have to restart Word.

[musicologydisco]

Depends on what version of windows you're running. Go to "help" and type in "add font".

[Excalibur]

Turds...posted in the wrong forum....should be in P.C. Help.....sorry!
Sorted.

[Jonathan Ford]

All done, thanks guys. And thanks for moving the thread, Peter.

[DazzyD]

I know I'm a bit late but for anyone else needing to do this:


It has to be installed to your Windows Font folder

c:\windows\fonts (just copy and paste)

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Usually you just have to restart Word.

MS Word (and the vast majority of other software) will load it's fonts in to memory when you run the application so there is no need to reboot the whole system. In Win7, the folder is simply C:\Windows\Fonts (I actually think it's the same for all versions of windows but am not 100% sure). Some fonts come as an installer package that will unpack the various font styles (ie plain, bold, italic, etc) in to the correct folder. This are autoexec files and just need double-left-clicked on their icon to install them. It couldn't be simpler.

Actually, thinking about it, it depends on what type of font it is. If it's a plain, straightforward font, you can copy it in to the fonts folder as above. However, if I remember correctly, then TrueType (TT) fonts require proper and correct installation. See this link from MS on how to do this:

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/truetypeinstall.mspx