Downloading & unzipping new fonts
1. Locate a font you want to download & click on the link. A File Download window will open. Click Save.
2. Save As window opens. At the top of the window locate Save in and click on the down arrow to find where that folder is located. (Windows defaults to {automatically uses} the last location you saved to.) Write this down or change it if you know how.
3. Click Save
4. Go to Start (where you turn off the computer) & choose My Computer. Starting with Hard Disk Drives Local Disk (C: ) double click on each icon in turn listed in the location you wrote down in step 2 until you get to the ZIP file you downloaded.
5. Double click on the file to open WinZip. (Hopefully this is already downloaded. Let me know if it isnt.)
6. Click once on any TTF files that appear in the WinZip window & then click the Extract icon. The Extract window opens.
7. Check the Extract to location. If it is not the same as in step 2, write it down or change it if you know how.
8. Click Extract.
9. Close the WinZip window.
Locating & unzipping previously downloaded fonts
1. Go to Start (where you turn off the computer) & choose Search. A Search Results window will open.
2. Click All files and folders
3. In All or part of the file name type *.zip without the quotation marks.
4. Click Search
5. When the Search is completed, go to the menu and click View then choose Details.
6. Click the column header In Folder to sort the list by folder.
7. Double click on a ZIP file to open WinZip. (Hopefully this is already downloaded. Let me know if it isnt. Ignore any fonts listed in C:\Windows\Fonts folder.) Either make note of the folders containing ZIP files or leave the Search Results window open for reference.
8. Click once on any TTF files that appear in the WinZip window & then click the Extract icon. The Extract window opens.
9. Check the Extract to location. If it is not the same as in step 5 of Locating previously downloaded fonts write it down or change it if you know how.
10. Click Extract.
11. Close the WinZip window.
Installing previously downloaded fonts
1. Go to Start & click My Computer
2. Double click Hard Disk Drives Local Disk (C: )
3. Double click Windows
4. Double click Fonts
5. From the menu, click File & then Install New Font. The Add Fonts window opens.
6. In the lower left of this window is the Folders list. You need to navigate to the folder/s where your TTF files are located. (The files you Extracted in step 7.) Under the word Folders: is the default location probably c:\windows. If your TTF files are in the My Documents folder for example, you need to double click on the c:\ icon in the white area and then on the My Documents folder icon.
7. Once you have selected the folder with your TTF files, the List of fonts: area will start to populate with the font files. If you have a LOT of fonts in the folder selected, it could take a while. Just above the Drives selection area (center of Add Fonts window) a line appears to indicate progress: Retrieving Font Names and the percentage complete
8. Either select the font/s you want from the List of fonts area or click Select All.
9. Click OK to install the fonts. The Install Font Progress window opens.
10. If you see the Windows Fonts Folders window appear & the message The xxxx(TrueType) font is already installed click Okay not Cancel. It will just skip the font thats already there & continue installing the rest. Choosing Cancel stops installing the entire list.
11. Repeat to look for & install TTF files if you might have already unzipped them or downloaded as a TTF file instead of a ZIP file. (It wouldnt have been your choice, but some fonts are small enough that theyre not zipped.)
The fonts youve installed dont usually appear in Word if the program was already open while you were installing the font. If it was open, just close it & re-open. The font should now be listed in the fonts list on your formatting bar.