List font names in their font

[Frank1234]

How do I find the "List font names in their font" check box in Word 2007? It
does not appear to be in the Options dialog.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Frank,

The choice to show the fonts in plain text in Word 2007 appears to have been disabled. The registry entry to do that is also
ignored.

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How do I find the "List font names in their font" check box in Word 2007? It does not appear to be in the Options dialog. >>
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[Frank1234]

Thanks. It's a real pain when you have a bunch of barcode fonts and the name
of the font is in barcode...

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Frank,

Ahh, good point. I've passed that one along

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Thanks. It's a real pain when you have a bunch of barcode fonts and the name of the font is in barcode... >>
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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This would be a defect of the font, however. Note that some of the symbol
fonts show a font name that does not reflect the characters in the font;
there must be something coded into the font that supplies the display name.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Suzanne,

Not necessarily a defect. Not all TTF or OT fonts have or require all features although certain ones would be desirable. I
have a barcode font that if used in Word 2003 shows the font name when you turn off the 'live preview', but using the font in Word
2007 it just shows bars in the font list There isn't, as far as I can tell any check in Office beyond what Windows checks for
displaying a font name Some Barcode TTF fonts may only be 4-8K in size (they don't have a lot of glyphs) and are installed for
specific uses by certain applications, likely with little thought to how they may work in Office apps <g>.

BTW, take a look in the Office 2007 \Program Files\Office 12\ folder and you may find an additional MS font that Office has, but
may not install, SegoeChess.ttf When installed, Word shows only the font name which doesn't appear to be in Segoe UI characters
<g>.

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This would be a defect of the font, however. Note that some of the symbol
fonts show a font name that does not reflect the characters in the font;
there must be something coded into the font that supplies the display name.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word) >>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

As you suggest, most fonts must have a name encoded in them somewhere
because the Windows Fonts folder (when you open it from Control Panel)
displays the font names, as opposed to the font filenames (as displayed when
you open the Fonts folder from Windows Explorer). This would be what Word
displays in the font list. The question then is, if a bar code font displays
in bar code characters in Word, how is it displayed in the Fonts folder?

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Suzanne,

In the font folder it has the expected name of the font (plain text) and sorts correctly by that name and the extended property tabs
are populated including the entry in the 'Names' tab

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As you suggest, most fonts must have a name encoded in them somewhere
because the Windows Fonts folder (when you open it from Control Panel)
displays the font names, as opposed to the font filenames (as displayed when
you open the Fonts folder from Windows Explorer). This would be what Word
displays in the font list. The question then is, if a bar code font displays
in bar code characters in Word, how is it displayed in the Fonts folder?

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Suzanne S. Barnhill >>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

So Word must be looking at something different; I wonder why.