Re: transferring Windows 98 fonts to Word in XP

From: Charles Kenyon (msnewsgroup_at_remove.no.spam.addbalance.com)
Date: 04/14/04 

Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 12:39:35 -0500

Hi,

It may have to do with your printer assignment. You need to set a default
printer (even if you don't have one attached to your computer) because Word
develops documents to go to a printer.

Take a look at <URL: http://addbalance.com/word/fontsmissing.htm>. Hope this
helps. 

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Charles Kenyon
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See also the MVP FAQ: <URL: http://www.mvps.org/word/> which is awesome!
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"Doug" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I have recently changed from Windows 98 to Windows XP,
> and have discovered that Word in XP has fewer fonts than
> were available in Word97.  The only FAQ I can find on the
> Microsoft support website talks only of downloading new
> fonts from third-party vendors and adding them to the
> Fonts folder via Control Panel.   I copied some sample
> font files from Win98 and tried to add them to XP, but
> got an error message saying that the font was "in use"
> and could not be added.
> Does anyone have experience with this problem?

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