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Some fonts that were available in Word 95 are no longer available in Word 2002

Article ID:291354
Last Review:January 31, 2007
Revision:3.4
This article was previously published under Q291354
For a Microsoft Word 2000 version of this article, see 211916 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/211916/).

For a Microsoft Word 97 version of this article, see 163059 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/163059/).
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SUMMARY

The following TrueType fonts, available in earlier versions of Microsoft Word, are no longer available in Microsoft Word 97 and later.
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, are no longer available in Microsoft Word 97 and later.
Modern
Roman
Script
Screen fonts are also not available in Microsoft Word 2002. Screen fonts may include the following:
Fixedsys
MS Sans Serif
MS Serif
Small Fonts
System
Terminal

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MS LineDraw

The MS LineDraw font is identified as a symbol font. Therefore, Microsoft Word 2002 interprets text typed in the MS LineDraw font as a series of symbols. As a result, many of the formatting and proofing features of Word ignore the text.

Courier New contains the exact same character set as MS LineDraw. Existing documents formatted with the MS LineDraw font are mapped to Courier New when opened in Word 2002.

To gain access to the line-drawing characters that were formerly available in MS LineDraw, click Symbol on the Insert menu, change the font to (normal text), and then change the Subset setting to Box Drawing.

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Bookshelf Symbol

Bookshelf Symbol 1 and Bookshelf Symbol 2 fonts are not proper symbol fonts. Because Word 2002 supports Unicode, these fonts are not usable in Word. In many cases, if a converted document contains these fonts, you see empty characters, represented by square boxes.

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International Fonts

Word 2002 makes most international fonts available.

For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
290926 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290926/) General information resources about international and multilingual features in Word 2003 and Word 2002

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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 have been removed from the font list in Microsoft Word 97 and later.

Examples of vector fonts include Roman, Modern, and Script. They are mostly used by Plotter printers under Microsoft Windows 3.x.

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Screen Fonts

Microsoft Word is designed to produce WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) output. To attain that goal, the text that is displayed on the screen must be printable. If the text is formatted with a screen font, a font substitution must occur when the document is printed because screen fonts are for display only and cannot be printed.

A font substitution may produce non-WYSIWYG output. For this reason, screen fonts are not available in the font list.

You can force Word to use a screen font by typing the name of the font, exactly as it is named in Windows, into the font list and pressing ENTER.

For additional information about missing fonts, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
211916 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/211916/) WD2000: Some Fonts Available in Word 95 No Longer Available in Word 2000

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APPLIES TO
Microsoft Word 2002 Standard Edition
Microsoft Office Word 2003

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