Determining which fonts are in use

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notagirrafe

I have thousands of Words documents created by versions going back to Word 6.

I also have just over 800 fonts which are the collected fonts installed on
the machines which created the documents.

Clearly I don't want to install all 800 fonts to a new machine, so how do I
determine which fonts are actually used by the documents ?

Is this a scripting problem ?
 
A

ANONYMOUS

You may not need any fonts as Office 2003 contains comprehensive fonts
to supplement Windows XP system fonts.
 
B

Beth Melton

Scripting would be the fastest method but you can also go to
Help/About Microsoft Office Word and click the "System Info.."
command. Then navigate to the Microsoft Word branch and select Fonts
to obtain a list of fonts used in the document.

If you need step-by-step instructions and screen shots then take a
look at this article:
"Hidden Treasures in System Information"
http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=85

You can also open the document and go to Tools/Options/Compatibility
Options and click "Font Substitution" to see if there are any missing
fonts.

Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for
assistance by email can not be acknowledged.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word
TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/
MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/
 
N

notagirrafe

This is very helpful for individual documents, but I can't see a way to apply
it to multiple documents. I have several thousand documents and really need
something I can use to examine them all anc compile a list of fonts in use.
 
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