Adding Garamond (or other fonts) to Word X (2001 version)

[Alison_P.]

Version: v.X
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I am running Mac X, version 1 (2001) on my OSX.5 Intel machine. Garamond did not come bundled with this version of Word, but I now discover I need Garamond for business purposes.

Would I purchase this from Adobe or somehow obtain it from MicroSoft? And does anyone know whether it would even be compatible with my old version of Word?

I apologize for a somewhat ridiculous post, but $49 to talk to a MicroSoft representative is outrageous.

Many thanks.

 

[Elliott Roper]

Version: v.X
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I am running Mac X, version 1 (2001) on my OSX.5 Intel machine. Garamond did
not come bundled with this version of Word, but I now discover I need
Garamond for business purposes.

Would I purchase this from Adobe or somehow obtain it from MicroSoft? And
does anyone know whether it would even be compatible with my old version of
Word?

I apologize for a somewhat ridiculous post, but $49 to talk to a MicroSoft
representative is outrageous.

No apology needed. $49 to have them tell you you can't get it from them
is *totally* outrageous.

There are several flavours of Garamond floating about. I have never
seen one that does not work with v.X
Of course v.X without Unicode support will not display many of the
esoteric glyphs that come with Unicode Opentype versions but they still
happily display the Apple 'extended' glyphs in those fonts.

Adobe will happily sell you some outrageously priced fonts.
(I just checked that Adobe Garamond Premier Pro works fine with v.X It
is currently the best and most full featured Garamond family on the
planet, but while you need something better than Word to make full use
of it, it works like a sweetie in v.X)

There was a rather limited Garamond family in Office 2004. I binned it
as soon as I saw it, but then I'm a Garamond junkie.

I don't think MS will sell you the font separately. Getting Office 2004
might be a good idea anyway. With 2004's Unicode support, you will have
fewer problems interworking with Office PC users.
There were a few freebies fonts associated with other bits of Adobe
software. Garamond fonts feature in at least one of them. Snuffle
around any Adobe product disks you have.

You /might/ legitimately grab a copy from work. Most PC fonts work
OK-ish on Macs.

You might be able to nick a copy off usenet
alt.binaries.fonts
alt.binaries.mac.fonts
it is *very* naughty, but the price is right.
I can't see any Garamond there at the moment.

Whatever business you are in, they got good taste in fonts.

 

[John McGhie]

You can't buy Garamond (or any other fonts) from Microsoft. However, I am
fairly sure Microsoft supplied Garamond with your copy of Word.

Word vX is too old for me to check now, but I have Garamond version 2.35
here, and it came with Office 2004 from Microsoft Typography, which licences
it from Monotype. I see that it was provided with Office 2001, and with
Word 6 and 7 on the PC. So it was provided with products older than you
have.

So if you reinstall the fonts that came on your Office CD, Garamond will be
amongst them. Or: You can start FontBook and tell it to look on the Office
CD, it will find it and offer to install it for you. You should find it in
the Value Pack folder,

The $49.00 is about half what it costs Microsoft to answer the phone, and
it's only there to scare away the people who cannot be bothered to look in
the help and on the web. Same with the lengthy "hold queue" -- another
device to persuade people to help themselves first

If there is really something wrong with Microsoft software, Microsoft will
usually refund the charge. If a company were to offer free phone support
these days, that company would soon go broke, because most people would far
rather call than look.

Hope this helps

Version: v.X
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

I am running Mac X, version 1 (2001) on my OSX.5 Intel machine. Garamond did
not come bundled with this version of Word, but I now discover I need Garamond
for business purposes.

Would I purchase this from Adobe or somehow obtain it from MicroSoft? And does
anyone know whether it would even be compatible with my old version of Word?

I apologize for a somewhat ridiculous post, but $49 to talk to a MicroSoft
representative is outrageous.

Many thanks.

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Nhulunbuy, NT, Australia. mailto:[email protected]

 

[Alison_P.]

Thank you, Elliott and John. I used Font Book and the original CD, and that did the trick.