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Recovering fonts for Office 2003

May 8, 2010 11:30AM PDT

I installed a new HD in my notebook recently. Was able to install Win-XP and my apps, and including MS-Office 2003. However, it dropped a lot of the fonts -- too numerous to mention. Is there away to extract just the fonts from the installation CD? I did a repair but that didn't help.

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See if this works
May 8, 2010 9:23PM PDT
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Didn't work
May 9, 2010 7:58AM PDT
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Did you try
May 9, 2010 7:25PM PDT

Kees suggestion?

Try this. Open Notepad and type messages. Goto Format > Font and see if different fonts work.

If not, then the problem is with the Windows fonts, not Office.

Mark

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I don't know about 2003 ...
May 10, 2010 4:36AM PDT

and I can't check it here, but I'm sure that other versions of Office had the option to include or exclude a lot of features (like, for example, specifying what graphic filters you want to install). Installing extra fonts might be one of those options that aren't included in the default install (like the WordPerfect graphic filter isn't included). Did you check that?

Kees

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Missing Fonts
May 27, 2010 10:18AM PDT
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Re: fonts
May 8, 2010 11:11PM PDT

- Are you sure those fonts came from the Office 2003 CD and not from some other source? Can you give a few examples?
- Find any other PC with those fonts installed, copy them from c:\windows\fonts to your USB-stick and install them from there via Control Panel>Fonts. Couldn't be easier.
- Things like this are why I include the c:\windows\fonts folder in my routine backup. Never lost a font that way.

Kees