Neither of these printer drivers support many of the fonts used by Windows, so those fonts-even though they are installed on your system-won't appear in Word's font list if these printer drivers are selected. This difference in behavior is why Word may not show all installed fonts, but Excel does.Ĭheck to make sure that Word isn't using a generic text printer or your fax printer (the driver that actually sends a fax). Excel, on the other hand, is display oriented and really doesn't care much about what can or will be printed.
The technical term for this behavior by Word is the 'device context.' Word is totally oriented to the 'device context,' which it gets from interrogating the printer driver at different junctures in the document-creation and printing process. While you are working on documents, Word routinely checks the printer driver to see what it can do, and then modifies what it displays based on what it discovers. Believe it or not, the most likely scenario has to do with the printer driver being used by Word. There are any number of reasons that this may be the case. He wondered if there was a way to fix this so that the fonts would be available in Word. Stephen commented that there were fonts that he could see and print in the Fonts window (Control Panel | Fonts), but that were not listed as available in Word.
