Publisher: business name or word in all font styles

[JohnsonTech]

I like to create logos and do business graphic design. I would really like
to have a tool in Publisher where I could type in the name of the company and
have Publisher creat a list in a pop-up or page with it in every font style
that is available. If this is already available, sorry - but please let me
know how to do it.
Publisher 2003

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[Chuck Davis]

I like to create logos and do business graphic design. I would really like
to have a tool in Publisher where I could type in the name of the company
and
have Publisher creat a list in a pop-up or page with it in every font
style
that is available. If this is already available, sorry - but please let
me
know how to do it.
Publisher 2003

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Good Grief! Tens of thousands exist! I personally only have about 1,500.

 

[Ed Bennett]

Good Grief! Tens of thousands exist! I personally only have about
1,500.

I think JohnsonTech meant a sampler of all available fonts on the machine.

There are macros available online to do this in Word - the fonts available
in Word are all the same as those available in Publisher... (Google.com is
your friend)

 

[JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]]

Yikes!! I have 966 fonts on my system. I don't want a Publisher document
that has all of them. My poor system would die a slow and painful death.

The closest I've seen is a Word macro that will create a .doc with the
alphabet in every font on your system. Mine is more than 90 pages long. And
it takes FOREVER for the darned thing to load. I use it to get an idea of
what a font looks like and then I can narrow down my selection in Publisher.

 

[JoAnn Paules [MSFT MVP]]

But just seeing the name of the font in that font really doesn't help me
decide whether that's the font I want to use. Sometimes you need to see more
before you can tell that it's easy to read or conveys the proper message.

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]



in message A simple fix to this would be if Pub would have a method to leave the Font
drop down opened. Then you could just highlight your text and flip through
different choices to see what the design looked like with diff fonts instead
of open, drop, scroll, select, open, drop, select, close...etc.

Yikes!! I have 966 fonts on my system. I don't want a Publisher document
that has all of them. My poor system would die a slow and painful death.

The closest I've seen is a Word macro that will create a .doc with the
alphabet in every font on your system. Mine is more than 90 pages long.
And
it takes FOREVER for the darned thing to load. I use it to get an idea of
what a font looks like and then I can narrow down my selection in
Publisher.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

Good Grief! Tens of thousands exist! I personally only have about 1,500.

 

[Ed Bennett]

I'd also like the same for the format brush...a way to keep it
selected.

Double-click the Format Painter button

 

[Ed Bennett]

now...how about keeping the font drop down opened?

In doing that you would be moving in the direction of formatting panes
rather than toolbars - a more Mac thing.

Maybe if we can convince Microsoft to releast Publisher:Mac then we will see
it

 

[Mike Koewler]

In doing that you would be moving in the direction of formatting panes
rather than toolbars - a more Mac thing.

Or, if I understand the idea correctly, the PagePlus direction. IOW,
click on the font menu and be able to scroll through the various fonts,
seeing how each one looks on screen when applied without having the drop
down list disappear?

Mike

 

[JohnsonTech]

Where would I find these macros for Word?

I think JohnsonTech meant a sampler of all available fonts on the machine.

There are macros available online to do this in Word - the fonts available
in Word are all the same as those available in Publisher... (Google.com is
your friend)

 

[JohnsonTech]

You are right this would probably be a simpler fix to my problem, but I would
also like to see all (I don't have as many fonts as most of you do) the
possibilities so I could compare them to each other. Maybe you could select
what fonts would be included in the display?

A simple fix to this would be if Pub would have a method to leave the Font drop down opened. Then you could just highlight your text and flip through different choices to see what the design looked like with diff fonts instead of open, drop, scroll, select, open, drop, select, close...etc.

Yikes!! I have 966 fonts on my system. I don't want a Publisher document
that has all of them. My poor system would die a slow and painful death.

The closest I've seen is a Word macro that will create a .doc with the
alphabet in every font on your system. Mine is more than 90 pages long. And
it takes FOREVER for the darned thing to load. I use it to get an idea of
what a font looks like and then I can narrow down my selection in Publisher.

--

JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]

I like to create logos and do business graphic design. I would really
like
to have a tool in Publisher where I could type in the name of the company
and
have Publisher creat a list in a pop-up or page with it in every font
style
that is available. If this is already available, sorry - but please let
me
know how to do it.
Publisher 2003

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then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...64-9598eafa20c2&dg=microsoft.public.publisher

Good Grief! Tens of thousands exist! I personally only have about 1,500.

 

[Ed Bennett]

Where would I find these macros for Word?

A search using www.google.com for font list macro word
(http://www.google.com/search?q=word+font+list+macro) sends us to
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q209205/ as the top link, containing code to
give a sample of each available font in a new document.