Missing format and symbols

[Guest]

I have Office 2002 at work and just bought a new computer at home that comes
with Office 2003. I notice that there are a lot of fonts missing in Office
2003 and many symbols in Excel such the various dollar signs in the Cell
formatting Currency field. How do I get these fonts and format in Office 2003
in general and in Excel in particular? I use Excel alot so it's important
that I can open workbooks that are created at work without any changes in
formating. Why would a newer version of Office have less choices in terms of
fonts and formatting?

 

[Guest]

Your computer probably came without many of the "good" fonts installed.
Under Settings > Fonts install:

symbol, wingdings1, wingdings2, wingdings3, and arial unicode ms


And be sure to check out:

http://www.alanwood.net/demos/wingdings.html

 

[David McRitchie]

If the computer did not have those fonts installed he won't be able to see the
wingding characters on the left side on his computer -- is that the point,
or is the point trying to discourage all use of wingdings.

And it will also make a difference which browser he uses. Since wingdings is a
Microsoft font he would have to use Internet Explorer. .