installing a specific when copying a spreadsheet

[cfbdhb]

Some of my Excel spreadsheets designed in Office v. X 10.1.5 on a Mac
are subsequently copied to PC versions of Excel. The spreadsheets and
macros work fine, but many of the PC's have a very sparce font
selection. Is is possible to copy a font from the Mac to the CD in
conjunction with the spreadsheet, and then install that font on the PC
so that the spreadsheet appears as designed?

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Some of my Excel spreadsheets designed in Office v. X 10.1.5 on a Mac
are subsequently copied to PC versions of Excel. The spreadsheets and
macros work fine, but many of the PC's have a very sparce font
selection. Is is possible to copy a font from the Mac to the CD in
conjunction with the spreadsheet, and then install that font on the PC
so that the spreadsheet appears as designed?

There's no native function to do that. You could use a windows installer
to package a font for installation. OTOH, doing so is probably a
violation of copyright laws.

Better to use a font that your PC users have installed.

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi,

One way to ensure you have the same look is to use OpenType fonts.
<http://store.adobe.com/type/opentype/main.html>

One of the design goals of Office 2004 and Office 2003 was to make
documents display and print the same in both versions as much as is
possible. Part of this effort is improved support for UniCode fonts. I
don't have a list of the new UniCode fonts that are installed with
Office 2004, but perhaps someone who has the list will post a follow-up.
If you stick with that list or purchase OpenType fonts you should be
able to keep the look and feel you desire across platforms.

-Jim

--
Jim Gordon
Mac MVP
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[Paul Berkowitz]

One way to ensure you have the same look is to use OpenType fonts.
<http://store.adobe.com/type/opentype/main.html>

One of the design goals of Office 2004 and Office 2003 was to make
documents display and print the same in both versions as much as is
possible. Part of this effort is improved support for UniCode fonts. I
don't have a list of the new UniCode fonts that are installed with
Office 2004, but perhaps someone who has the list will post a follow-up.
If you stick with that list or purchase OpenType fonts you should be
able to keep the look and feel you desire across platforms.

Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Verdana and MS PMincho (or maybe it's MS
PGothic) are the Unicode MS fonts on the Mac, and the same as in Windows.
(On the Mac there's a more complete Unicode font - Lucida Grande - but that
won't be recognized at all on Windows and something else will be
substituted. And Arial Unicode on Windows is 100% complete, but not
available on the Mac.) The "missing bits" of the four Unicode fonts are so
obscure (Devangali anyone?) that unless you have an extremely specialized
interest they should cover anything you need.

--
Paul Berkowitz
MVP MacOffice
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