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Fonts On
Windows-Based Computers Font
substitutions are often responsible for incorrect display
issues with PowerPoint. Font substitution occurs when
a PowerPoint has been created using a text font that is
unique to the author's computer, or lat least not installed
on the conference computer. What Windows does then, is to
substitute a different font to use for those slides. Because
different fonts may be physically different in size from one
another at the same "font size setting" your text will
display with errors.
Therefore, check to make
certain that your presentation uses fonts that will be on
the computers at the conference. The best way to ensure
there will be no problems with font substitutions wreaking
chaos with your slides is to use basic Microsoft Office
fonts that are installed on every Windows and Office XP
computer.
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Basic
Windows Fonts |
Courier New
(TrueType, including Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic
variations) |
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Arial
(TrueType, including Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic
variations) |
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Times New
Roman (TrueType, including Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic
variations) |
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Symbol
(TrueType) |
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Wingdings
(TrueType) |
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MS Serif |
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MS Sans Serif |
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Microsoft
Office Big Fonts
Big fonts,
include multiple character sets and accommodate many
languages, like Tahoma, which is the default Office XP user
interface font for all languages except Asian languages.
Installing Office XP also installs additional fonts.
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Additional
Office XP Fonts |
Arial |
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Arial Black |
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Arial Bold |
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Arial Narrow |
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Bookman Old
Style |
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Courier New |
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Garamond |
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Impact |
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Tahoma |
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Times New
Roman |
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Trebuchet
(Central and Eastern European languages only) |
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Verdana® |
Windows
Multiple language Options
Make certain
to check with conference organizers to see if international
language support has been installed on the conference
computers.
In addition to
the fonts in the Multilingual User Interface Pack, which
support particular character sets, Office XP also includes a
complete Unicode font, which supports all characters in all
of the languages supported by Office.
The following
table lists the fonts provided by the Microsoft Multilingual
User Interface Pack, along with the languages they support.
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Font
(file) |
Supported
Languages |
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BatangChe (BatangCh.ttf),
Gulim (Gulim.ttf) |
All European
languages, Korean |
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MingLiu (Mingliu.ttf) |
English,
Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese |
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MS UI Gothic
(Msuigoth.ttf) |
All European
languages, Japanese |
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Installing
fonts that support multiple languages
In most cases,
Office Setup automatically installs or updates fonts to
display characters in multiple scripts. For example, a
document formatted in the Arial font can display Western
European, Cyrillic, Turkish, Baltic, Central European,
Greek, Arabic, or Hebrew text.
For Asian
languages or Unicode characters, however, you must install
the appropriate fonts on users' computers.
Important Do
not change the default user interface font. The Office XP
user interface is designed to fit Tahoma and certain Asian
fonts. Using a different user interface font might truncate
user interface labels in some languages.
Installing Asian fonts
Office XP
provides Asian fonts for four languages: Japanese, Korean,
Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. If users need
to edit or read documents in these languages, they must
install the appropriate Asian fonts.
To install Asian fonts
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On the
Set Feature Installation States page in the Custom
Installation Wizard, select the Office
Tools\International Support feature.
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For each of
the Asian fonts you want to use, select the font, and set
the installation state to Run from My Computer.
Installing
Indic fonts
The Indic
languages supported in Office XP include Devanagari-based
languages (Hindi, Konkani, Marathi, Nepali, and Sanskrit)
and Tamil. If users need to edit or read documents in these
languages, they must install the appropriate Indic fonts.
To install Indic fonts
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On the
Set Feature Installation States page in the Custom
Installation Wizard, select the Office
Tools\International Support feature.
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For each of
the Indic fonts you want to use, select the font, and set
the installation state to Run from My Computer.
Installing
the Unicode font
Some
documents, such as Access data tables, can display only one
font at a time. But these documents can display multilingual
text in more than one script if you use the Unicode font.
The Unicode font provided by Office XP allows users to input
and display characters across scripts and across code pages
that support the various scripts.
Installing a
Unicode font on users' computers has some disadvantages.
First, the Unicode font file is much larger than font files
based on code pages. Second, some characters might look
different from their character equivalents in code pages.
For these reasons, do not use the Unicode font as your
default font. However, if your users share documents across
many different scripts, the Unicode font might be your best
choice.
To install the Unicode
font
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On the
Set Feature Installation States page in the Custom
Installation Wizard, select the Office
Tools\International Support feature.
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Select the Universal Font feature, and set the installation
state to Run from My Computer.
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