Where is the Tools Menu in the Fonts folder?

Tom Ferguson

2009-08-30 06:03:34 UTC

I shall leave all issues aside for the moment except how to get the "Tools"
item to show-

Navigate to Control Panel while in Classic View.
Select Folder Options item, View tab.
From Advanced Setting window, select "Always show menus".
OK out.
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A note on the fonts in the font list:

As Suzanne has correctly pointed out, there are fonts installed that Word
will not show in its menus. There are the fonts provided for purposes of
program display purposes and are bit-mapped fonts. They render very rapidly
to the monitor but do not look good when printed. If you use Windows
Explorer or similar to check the fonts directory on the HD, these fonts list
and are identified with a small red A icon. Word will not use these fonts to
print.

The Word font list will show Open Type, TrueType, Postscript Type 1 fonts.
It will print with them. It will also show printer-resident fonts. This
sometimes causes people some anxiety depending on the settings in the
printer driver(s) they use and font substitution table entries.

Let us know.

Tom Ferguson

Post by Suzanne S. Barnhill
At this point, unless some Vista-knowledgeable person surfaces here, I'm
going to suggest that you post your question elsewhere. I'm going to
cross-post this to microsoft.public.word.printingfonts, which may be
helpful, but if that does not suffice, then perhaps a Vista newsgroup
would be a better choice.
Before we go farther, though, are you sure that you have non-TrueType
fonts that are printable? Those that are labeled with a roman capital A
are system fonts. Word will never use them because they can't be printed.
Those with a script capital A are Adobe fonts, and you should definitely
see those, though in your Word fonts list, they will be marked with a
printer icon rather than the script A. Also labeled with a printer icon
will be any fonts that are resident in your printer (these will not show
up in the Fonts folder unless you have software equivalents (usually
TrueType) installed for display purposes.
Also, as has already been pointed out, bold, italic, and bold italic
variants will not be listed separately; Word uses those when you apply the
bold, italic, or bold italic font properties to text.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

The good new is: pressing Alt after opening the Fonts folder does make
"Tools" appear on the menu -- Hooray! The bad news is: under Folder
Options
in the Tools menu there still is no True Type Fonts tab -- only the
General,
View, and Search tabs. So I still can't uncheck the "Show only True Type
fonts" box. But I feel like we're getting closer!

I was afraid of that. Someone who is running Vista will probably be able
to
help more, but a Google search turns up several pages that seem to
indicate
that pressing Alt will make the traditional menu (including Tools)
appear.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

It's Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2003.

What version of Windows are you running?
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

When I go to the Control Panel and double-click the Fonts folder, I
can't
find a Tools menu that will give me access, ultimately, to the True
Type
Fonts tab. I'm trying to make all fonts in the folder show up in
the
Word
drop-down list. All 213 of the ones that show there now are
labeled
as
True
Type. I've tried changing the default printer and that doesn't
help.
Is
there another way to get at the True Type Fonts tab?