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I need the Courier font in Word 2007/Vista

deadonthestreetdeadonthestreet Registered User regular
edited January 2008 in Help / Advice Forum
No, not Courier New. Plain old Courier. Does anyone know where or how I can get it?

Edit: OK, it is in my Font folder, but I can't use it in Office. Any ideas?

Edit2: Ok, it is a "screen font" that I cannot use through Word. This is getting stupider by the minute.

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  • EggyToastEggyToast Jersey CityRegistered User regular
    edited January 2008
    I thought Word 2007 used all new "C" fonts? And I don't mean Courier. I believe the monospace font for Office 2007 in Vista is named "Consolas."

    edit to add: oh, and I know you want courier specifically, but in other words you won't get it into Office via the default install. You'll have to find a ClearType version of it, since I believe that's what Vista uses.

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  • deadonthestreetdeadonthestreet Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Well shit.

    Thanks.

    Looks like I'll be doing a lot of typing on my macbook for now.

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  • DaenrisDaenris Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Why do you need courier instead of courier new? On my word 2003 install in XP they are pretty much indistinguishable.

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  • deadonthestreetdeadonthestreet Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Brief for court.

    They are very picky.

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  • DaenrisDaenris Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Have you compared the two? Like I said, very little difference. In the character map in Windows they appear slightly different, however putting them side by side in Word 2003 looks identical.

    Unfortunately I don't know of any way to force Word to include the font given that it's already in your fonts folder but won't show up. This page (http://help.lockergnome.com/office/Word-ftopict995898.html) is related to this and seems to indicate that it Word will not use it no matter what. I suspect that when I select Courier in my version of Word it's probably displaying Courier New anyway perhaps.

    Are you providing them with a computer document or a printed document? If printed, I really suspect that using Courier New would be perfectly acceptable as it's still a fixed-width courier font. However, if you're providing them with a computer file they're more likely just concerned with compatibility.

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