Installing embedded fonts

[gordo]

If I receive a Word document with an embedded .ttf font that is designated
as Installable Embedding Allowed, how can I install that font? Is that font
automatically installed if I open the document? Or must I do something to
get it installed?

Thanks,

Gordo

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It used to be that installable fonts were in fact installed on your system
when you opened a document containing them. This was deemed intrusive (in
principle, no one wants software of any kind to be installed on his system
without explicit permission), so the policy was changed; the font will be
editable in the given document, and I would guess that you might be able to
copy/paste it into another document, but I don't know how you would go about
actually installing it in the Windows Fonts folder.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org