Hi Suzanne,
I know it has come up a couple of times, but don't recall that there was a 'reason' given. It's an Office wide setting. In Office
2003 it's controlled in the Registry under
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\Toolbars
REG_DWORD 0 | 1
Moving the same setting to ...\Office\12.0\...
works in the non-ribboned apps, such as Publisher for the Font drop down, but it has no effect in the Ribboned apps. It's possible
there's an OOXML property setting somewhere for it, but I haven't come across that yet.
In the 'Word only' setting for the Style dialog the Word team elected to be able to toggle showing the styles in their 'display
styles' but not fonts. I suspect it has something to do with Quickstyles display, but that's just a guess.
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Do you have any idea what the rationale for disabling this in Word 2007 was?
I have many, many fonts installed and find the graphic list very
inefficient. Worse than the font list, though, is that this setting also
infects the Style dropdown, where it is even more inefficient.
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