What are the official "common system fonts"?

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MS Word gives an option stated as: "Do not embed common system fonts".

The only description I've ever found says "Selecting this will prevent
fonts which are likely to be available in most computers, from being
embedded." But precisely which are those fonts? I assume Arial and
Times New Roman, but what else is in the list? Does the list vary with
the version of MSWord or Office? I hope it doesn't include all of the
fonts that are distributed with Windows or Office or MSWord.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I've always assumed it means the "Windows core fonts." These would be, at
minimum, TNR, Arial, Courier New, Symbol, Wingdings, and perhaps Tahoma. My
article at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/DeleteFontsSafely.htm
discusses which ones you need to *use* Word, but I don't think these would
necessarily be the same as those that are referred to in the embedding
dialog.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

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MS Word gives an option stated as: "Do not embed common system fonts".
The only description I've ever found says "Selecting this will prevent
fonts which are likely to be available in most computers, from being
embedded." But precisely which are those fonts? I assume Arial and Times
New Roman, but what else is in the list? Does the list vary with the
version of MSWord or Office? I hope it doesn't include all of the fonts
that are distributed with Windows or Office or MSWord.
- Character

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Post by Suzanne S. Barnhill
I've always assumed it means the "Windows core fonts." These would be,
at minimum, TNR, Arial, Courier New, Symbol, Wingdings, and perhaps
Tahoma. My article at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/DeleteFontsSafely.htm discusses
which ones you need to *use* Word, but I don't think these would
necessarily be the same as those that are referred to in the embedding
dialog.

The now discontinued free MS "Windows Core Fonts" package was a much
later introduction, shipped with Internet Explorer 5, and was intended
as a list of web-compatible fonts, cross licensed to Apple. It
included Andale Mono, Arial, Comic Sans MS, Courier New, Georgia,
Impact, TNR, Trebuchet MS, Verdana, and Webdings.

Although it would make sense, I very much doubt that this same list
would be built into MSWord as 'common system fonts'

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Post by Suzanne S. Barnhill
I've always assumed it means the "Windows core fonts." These would be,
at minimum, TNR, Arial, Courier New, Symbol, Wingdings, and perhaps
Tahoma. My article at
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/DeleteFontsSafely.htm discusses
which ones you need to *use* Word, but I don't think these would
necessarily be the same as those that are referred to in the embedding
dialog.

The now discontinued free MS "Windows Core Fonts" package was a much
later introduction, shipped with Internet Explorer 5, and was intended
as a list of web-compatible fonts, cross licensed to Apple. It
included Andale Mono, Arial, Comic Sans MS, Courier New, Georgia,
Impact, TNR, Trebuchet MS, Verdana, and Webdings.

Although it would make sense, I very much doubt that this same list
would be built into MSWord as 'common system fonts'

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