Font Audit

[chetter]

I'm not having much luck with this one - we have a library of several
hundred MS Word documents created by different people in different
years with different versions of MS Word. We need to find out which
fonts are in use for each document and, of course, for the entire
library. So far I have stumbled on only two methods of obtaining this
information

1 - using a macro to get the Font.Name for each word in each document
2 - Opening each document with the "Recover Text From Any File" value
in the "Files of Type" box

Is this it? Is there no shortcut for getting a report of the fonts
used in a document? Any tips would be appreciated.

- Chet

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Chet,

There isn't a built in 'show me the fonts' dialog as Word's option for that basically only reports fonts that aren't available on a
specific computer.

Keep in mind that in a Word document folks can name fonts that aren't available to them on a specific computer or that even exists
(although it's probably fairly rare for that to happen except accidentally). For example, start a new blank document and in the font
dialog
type Fred and press enter and then 'yes' to the prompt.

Windows will suggest to Word a substitute font to be used in display and printing for Fred but will accept the name.

Fonts can be specified as part of style definitions as well, even though not applied in the the document, or applied but not
available so that a document can be standardized on appearance.

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I'm not having much luck with this one - we have a library of several
hundred MS Word documents created by different people in different
years with different versions of MS Word. We need to find out which
fonts are in use for each document and, of course, for the entire
library. So far I have stumbled on only two methods of obtaining this
information

1 - using a macro to get the Font.Name for each word in each document
2 - Opening each document with the "Recover Text From Any File" value
in the "Files of Type" box

Is this it? Is there no shortcut for getting a report of the fonts
used in a document? Any tips would be appreciated.

- Chet <<
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*