Installing new fonts on Word X

[Stephen Fox]

I'm trying to install Garamond. I tried putting it into the Font Folder
under Office X, but that didn't work; it doesn't appear in the list of
available fonts. Then I tried installing it from my Office X CD. Ran
the installer, but it says all the fonts already installed. I checked.
NO Garamond. So I'm stuck. Thanks for any advice in advance.

Steve

 

[JE McGimpsey]

I'm trying to install Garamond. I tried putting it into the Font Folder
under Office X, but that didn't work; it doesn't appear in the list of
available fonts. Then I tried installing it from my Office X CD. Ran
the installer, but it says all the fonts already installed. I checked.
NO Garamond. So I'm stuck. Thanks for any advice in advance.

Place the fonts in one of three places:

To be available to Classic and all OS X users of Office:

HD:System Folder:Fonts:


To be available to all OS X users:

HD:Library:Fonts:

To be available only to a specific user:

~:Library:Fonts

(where ~ is the user's home directory).

 

[Elliott Roper]

I'm trying to install Garamond. I tried putting it into the Font Folder
under Office X, but that didn't work; it doesn't appear in the list of
available fonts. Then I tried installing it from my Office X CD. Ran
the installer, but it says all the fonts already installed. I checked.
NO Garamond. So I'm stuck. Thanks for any advice in advance.

depending which Garamond, it may be right at the end of the font
table, right out of alphabetical order.

My old Adobe Garamond did that, but now Adobe Garamond Pro sorts up the
front of the font list in Word.

Nice font innit?

Have you perhaps disabled it with Font Book? Disabled fonts do not
appear in the Word list once it has been restarted after the font has
been disabled.

Note that Word does not look in the office folder for fonts. It looks
in the three places that John McGimpsey list, as well as
/System/Library/Fonts and Network/mumble I'm not sure...
Don't attempt to put anything in /System/Library/Fonts. I am pretty
sure it will not let you.

Use font book to search for Garamond. Just type Gara in the search
field. Every font with that sequence of letters in its name will appear
in the second column. If it is there and greyed out click the enable
button at the bottom of that column and restart all your Office
applications so that they will notice it.

If it is not there and you can see a copy of Garamond in the Microsoft
Office/Office/Fonts folder, select install in Font Book, navigate there
to select it and install it. Font book will ask you whether you want it
in your own account or for all users of the system.
See John's post to understand why you get asked that question.

 

[Stephen Fox]

depending which Garamond, it may be right at the end of the font
table, right out of alphabetical order.

My old Adobe Garamond did that, but now Adobe Garamond Pro sorts up the
front of the font list in Word.

Nice font innit?

Have you perhaps disabled it with Font Book? Disabled fonts do not
appear in the Word list once it has been restarted after the font has
been disabled.

Note that Word does not look in the office folder for fonts. It looks
in the three places that John McGimpsey list, as well as
/System/Library/Fonts and Network/mumble I'm not sure...
Don't attempt to put anything in /System/Library/Fonts. I am pretty
sure it will not let you.

Use font book to search for Garamond. Just type Gara in the search
field. Every font with that sequence of letters in its name will appear
in the second column. If it is there and greyed out click the enable
button at the bottom of that column and restart all your Office
applications so that they will notice it.

If it is not there and you can see a copy of Garamond in the Microsoft
Office/Office/Fonts folder, select install in Font Book, navigate there
to select it and install it. Font book will ask you whether you want it
in your own account or for all users of the system.
See John's post to understand why you get asked that question.

I put it in HD: Library: Fonts. Elliott is right, HD: System: Fonts
won't accept changes.

Garamond turned out to be a disappointing font. Much ado about nothing,
I guess.

Thanks for the help! I keep learning....

Steve

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Garamond turned out to be a disappointing font. Much ado about nothing,
I guess.

Really? I like Garamond a lot. Professional yet distinctive. Better
printed than on screen, though.
DM

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Really? I like Garamond a lot. Professional yet distinctive. Better
printed than on screen, though.

I think so, too, but my clients generally don't think it's professional
enough (but they're mostly Wintel people). I have one Mac client that
has me send all his docs with a macro that displays Verdana on the
screen, but prints Garamond.

 

[Elliott Roper]

Really? I like Garamond a lot. Professional yet distinctive. Better
printed than on screen, though.
DM

I'm with you there Daiya. A true classic. There are many versions of
Garamond out there. Microsoft's is not all that pretty on screen, and
lacks all the variants of Adobe's versions. Adobe Garamond Pro is an
Open Type Font and the Garamond to use with Unicode.

I have just been battling with PC recipients of one of my documents
inadvertently set using two versions of Garamond and converted to PDF.
Hilarious results.
One guy can see all of it on screen, yet some styles "print in Korean"
Another guy sees everything in "Korean" on screen, except for the
styles the other bloke sees corrupted, which look fine.

Their idea of 'fine' was pretty weird. They seem to be able to live
with every font being substituted to Courier New in Word.

Their tech support guy tells them "It came from an Apple Mac" tell him
to fix it. Arghhh!

Fortunately I everything set up with styles. So a few minutes later,
they each had the document set in MRN (Microsoft Ransom Note)

Standards are such a wonderful thing. Everyone should have their own.

One is reminded that "Normal" means "average" in certain contexts.

In Word, I think it means "well below average" especially when it comes
to fonts that are common to both platforms.

The only nice thing I can say about TNR is its awesome Unicode
repertoire. Arial Black should be renamed
butt-ugly-official-bullying-font

I used to like Helvetica, now the only thing wrong with it is that it
looks like Arial.