Has anyone dealt with this: Microsoft Word won't show any fonts in the dropdown except 3 default device fonts.

Question

I'm running Office 2000 on Win XP. The drop down font list in Word will only show 3 default device fonts. Excel will show the whole list, so at least part of Office knows where they are. Is there a registry entry that is messed up? I've already done a deinstall/reinstall on Office so we can skip that step.

Answer 1

This problem most commonly occurs when one of the following conditions is true:
• No printer is installed.
• An inappropriate printer driver is selected as the default printer.
• Too many fonts are installed in Microsoft Windows.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/276515

Answer 2

I don't really know much about Office 2000 because I use Office XP 2003, but I will try. When you run Office it bases the fonts in the dropdown off from the WINNT folder(Or for Win XP Windows I think) You go to Start>Run>Type C:/ or HardDisk Letter>Look for either WINNT or Windows>There should be a folder called Fonts. If there are only three fonts in that folder than those are the fonts that Word is showing. For some reason Excel shows fonts from native folders. My fonts that I downloaded would not run on Word until I moved them to the fonts folder. (My Word has 315 fonts!!)

Answer 3

on the great of the web page there should be a drop down bar with the call of the font visile discover the font you opt for and decide it. Do a similar for the size. To get rid of double spacing bypass to the edit menu and there should be a menu for spacing