WD97: Some Fonts Are Not Available in Word (163059)

SUMMARY

The following TrueType fonts, available in earlier versions of Word for Windows, are no longer available in Word 97. This functionality is by design.

Arial CE
Arial Cyr
Arial Greek
Bookshelf Symbol 1
Bookshelf Symbol 2
Courier New CE
Courier New Cyr
Courier Greek
MS LineDraw
Times New Roman CE
Times New Roman Cyr
Times New Roman Greek

The following vector fonts available in earlier versions of Word for Windows are no longer available in Word 97. This functionality is by design.

Modern
Roman
Script

Screen fonts are not available in Microsoft Word 97 for Windows or earlier versions of Word for Windows. Screen fonts may include:

Fixedsys
MS Sans Serif
MS Serif
Small Fonts
System
Terminal

MORE INFORMATION

MS LineDraw

The MS LineDraw font is identified as a symbol font. Therefore, Word 97 will interpret text typed in the MS LineDraw font as a series of symbols and many of formatting and proofing features of Word will ignore the text.

Courier New contains the exact same character set as MS LineDraw. Existing documents formatted with the MS LineDraw font will be mapped to Courier New when opened in Word 97.

To access the line drawing characters that used to be available in MS LineDraw, click Symbol on the Insert menu, change the font to (normal text), and change the Subset to Box Drawing.

Bookshelf Symbol

Bookshelf Symbol 1 and Bookshelf Symbol 2 fonts are not proper symbol fonts. Because Word 97 supports Unicode, these fonts are unusable in Word 97. In many cases, if a converted document contains these fonts, you will get "empty" characters, represented by a square box.

International Fonts

International font sets that are available in Word 7.0 are not automatically available in Word 97. Word 97 makes available only the fonts that are determined by the language and keyboard setting in Windows 95.

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

159341 Word 97: International Fonts Don't Appear in Font List

Vector Fonts

Vector fonts use an older font technology and the quality of the printed output is very poor. Because of the poor printed quality, these fonts were removed from the font drop-down box in Microsoft Word 97.

Examples of this type of font are the Roman, Modern, and Script. They are mostly used by Plotter printers under Microsoft Windows 3.x.

Screen Fonts

Microsoft Word is designed to produce WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) output. In order to attain that goal, the text that is displayed on the screen must be able to be printed. If the text is formatted with a screen font, then a font substitution must occur when the document is printed because screen fonts are for display only and cannot be printed.

Performing a font substitution when printing may produce non-WYSIWYG output. For this reason, screen fonts are not available in the font drop-down box.

You can still force Word to use a screen font to display the text by typing in the name of the font, exactly as it is named in Windows, into the font drop-down box and pressing ENTER.