Why is the Scripts font not available in Word?

[Guest]

The Scripts font does not appear in Word but it does in Excel. I read an
earlier posting regarding the same situation with a Courier font. The answer
to that was that Word only displays printable fonts. If applied to text in
Excel, the Scripts font prints beautifully.

A secondary question then is, where do these applications look for their
Fonts lists?

 

[Jezebel]

Word and Excel handle fonts differently.

Go to Start > Control Panel > Fonts to see what fonts are installed on your
computer. These are normally, but not necessarily, stored in C
:\Windows\Fonts (and any font file added to this folder is available to any
application). Applications look for the font list in the registry: My
Computer\HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts.

 

[Guest]

I neglected to mention that yes, I did check first that the Scripts font was
installed on my computer. That is why I do not understand why it is not
available in Word. It is both in Control Panel\Fonts and Windows\Fonts. I
do not have the Current Version\Fonts, but then again, we do not run Windows
NT here.

 

[Jezebel]

A font is not available in Word if it is not a usable printer font.

The list of fonts is in your registry somewhere -- do a search for a
recognised font name.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Lynn,

See if this article describes what you're experiencing:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291354/en-us?FR=1#appliesto

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I neglected to mention that yes, I did check first that the Scripts font was
installed on my computer. That is why I do not understand why it is not
available in Word. It is both in Control Panel\Fonts and Windows\Fonts. I
do not have the Current Version\Fonts, but then again, we do not run Windows
NT here. >>
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I hope this helped you,

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office system products MVP

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[Guest]

Yes! There's my answer. Thank you very much and have a great weekend.