Is it possible to download a font off of the internet and have it appear on the list of fonts on MS Word?

Question

I would like to download a creative font of off the internet.
For example, www.dafont.com

If I download the font, will it appear on Microsoft Word?

Answer 1

Since you gave no specifics, you're going to get my super-long answer...



From the font site, click on download. Choose Save, not Open. Save it some place you can find it on your computer.



Find the downloaded file on your computer. If it's a zipped file you will need to unzip it before you can do anything else.



WINDOWS VISTA UNZIP: double-click on the zip to open it, then either click on "Extract all files" or drag and drop the files somewhere outside the zip window.



WINDOWS VISTA INSTALL: Select the font files (.ttf or .otf ) from within the Extracted Folder or where you dragged then right-click > Install



WINDOWS XP UNZIP: You should have extraction software already on your system - try right clicking on the file and selecting expand or extract if it is listed. Have it extract to where you are or where you can find it.



If you do not have those choices, you probably need to download software - there are many free applications. I am currently loving ExtractNow. Here is a link to a safe download from CNet. http://www.download.com/ExtractNow/3000-2250_4-10038365.html?tag=mncol&cdlPid=10871941 It is free. It is easy to install. Once it is installed, you just launch it, drag your zipped folders into it and click Extract. What is really cool about it is that you can extract multiple files at once. That is a huge bonus, especially when downloading all those fun free fonts.



WINDOWS XP INSTALL: Go to your fonts folder. Either through the start menu > control panels > fonts (make sure you are using Classic View for the control panels - it's much easier). OR go to My Computer > Drive C > Windows > Fonts. Drag the new fonts (just the ttf/otf files) from the extracted folder or wherever they are into the fonts folder. A box should pop up showing that the font is being installed.



FOR VISTA OR XP: If the download was just a single .ttf or.otf file, skip the extracting steps and go straight to installing.



If you have any programs running you will need to quit and restart them before they see the newly installed font. Worse case scenario - if the fonts aren't showing up, restart the computer.

Answer 2

Okay, I'm going to assume that you do know what you're doing with downloading a font file, since most of the sites I use send them in ZIP format. You unzip the file, as you know, and there you have a TTF file or something of that sort staring back at you. What do you do now? Well, there's multiple ways to go about this. Here's the easiest one. Don't download it to your desktop, download it to a folder that you then have to open. Select the font files you want to copy, then go to the top bar and click Edit -> Move to Folder... Then select the folder C:\Windows\Fonts It'll give you a dialog box that says, "Installing fonts". When that's done, you may have to restart your machine (it depends on a number of factors, but it never hurts), and when you open Microsoft Word, or OpenOffice, or AbiWord, or WordPad, you should see the new fonts in your list, ready to be used.

Answer 3

If you go to Control Panel -> Fonts, you can install the downloaded font or right-click on the font and there should be an Install option.