Fonts in the Font Drop-Down List

How to Create User Styles and Add Resident Standard Fonts in WORD 2000

NOTE: Our “Corporate Standard” Word Document is A4, with 0.7” margins on all 4 sides, TNR 12 pt Font; If you can’t get the normal.dot to “remember” those settings in Office 2010, then revert back to some software that actually works, perhaps something like Word 2000;

HOW TO ADD MORE QUICKLY AVAILABLE FONTS IN WORD 2000

WORD 2000 restricts the “Embedded Top Choices” for Fonts to either 4 or 5 Fonts depending on your Service Pack, and etc.; So, in the Font Pull-Down Menu in the top toolbar, you will normally see only the following “Top” choices:
(a.)Times New Roman; (b.)Courier New; (c.)Arial; and (d.)Tahoma…

Again WORD limits you to just 4 or 5 Fonts, which will stay permanently on the top of the Font Pull-Down list… So, how did I do this? - - (..and make it “stick”?)

This is done by adding “User-Defined-Styles”, saving the new styles under “Normal.dot”, and saving at least one DOC file after each change - -

In this tutorial, I will show you how to add a “User-Defined-Style” - -

1.)Go to Format, Style - -


2.)Select “User-Defined-Styles” from the lower left drop-down, then click “New”


3.)Select ”New”, then Rename “Style1” to “Style5-Greg’s Hand”, (i.e., rename to whatever Font you are adding…) then from within the bottom of the dialogue box, pull-down “Format”, select “Font”, scroll down to “Greg’s Hand”, select that font, select “Regular” (Unless you want “Bold” or “Italics”) then keep the standard 12 pt size unless you want to change Font size, then click OK to close the Font sub-dialogue box, then click “Add to Template”, then select the “OK” button at the bottom of the dialogue box, then click “Apply” as you exit the main “User-Defined-Styles” dialogue box. - - Note that this method of selection preserves all other features of the “Normal Paragraph” and the “Normal.dot”, so you still have A4 paper size, and 0.7-inch margins on all sides…

4.)You are pretty much done… However, to make sure that this New “User-Defined-Style” is “saved” in the “Normal.dot”, go to “File”, then “Save As”, and another useless empty Doc like “Doc12.doc”, will be added to your “My Documents” directory.

5.)Test - - Close Word, and then clear tags, registry, clipboard, etc. by cleaning with CC Cleaner or whatever you use; Reboot your computer, Open WORD 2000, pull down the “Font” selection from the top toolbar, and you should see that you have added yet another “permanently-on-top” Font, by adding a “User-Defined-Style” - -

Note also that the New “User-Defined-Styles” can contain different Font sizes, etc. - -

This concludes this tutorial. This was only a test. If this were a real tutorial, if would have been presented to you in Comic Book format with a MIL-SPEC reference number and your instructor would have been shouting obscenities at you…

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