Office Fonts ???

What would happen if an office document (let's say Excel) with a particular font (let's say Arial Narrow) was opened on a machine that does not have that font installed?

 

Pretty sure it opens in the program's default -- usually arial or Times New Roman.

 

yup

 

I deleted it and verified this. It basically trys to find the most similar. Remove Arial Narrow and it defaults to Arial Narrow Italic, delete that and it goes to Arial.

I've read that Office XP doesn't neccesarily come with the same fonts as older versions. I may need to distribute Arial Narrow to some users. What would be the best way? Just email them and have them copy to the fonts folder?

 

they'll need to install the font for it to work. are the fonts TT??

 

Yes

My goal is to avoid getting their tech people involved to complicate things.

I was able to reinstall the ones I removed for the test by just pasting it into an email from a differant machine, sending and then installing.

 

then you could just create a simple little executable in like Winzip... package it to open to the destination you want it and send it to those that need it. If you've got SMS you could set it to deploy itself and not even involve any other user interaction.

 

Bingo.

I was going to suggest adding it to the login script of the users that will be needing it, since not all organizations have the luxury of SMS.

 

I know the cost of a server is steep, but damn if I wouldn't recommend running an SMS server to any company with more than 100 computers. It makes work a HELL of a lot easier.