Fonts in MS Word 2000

U don't give us much to work with-for instance, u didn't mention whether it's only Word that has this problem, or other text editors as well ,and u didn't say whether u have checked the integrity of your Windows\Fonts folder, but I'll still venture to guess.Since Word is a WYSIWYG program, it's dependant on a printer driver-it gets it's info on the available fonts from the default printer driver. So, if u don't have a default printer set, or have a Generic/Text Only printer set, u'll see very little or no fonts at all.So-set a default printer then. Even if u don't have a printer attached tothe machine-get any current driver, HP or Epson etc ,and set it as default.If u do have a default printer set-it's driver may be corrupted, and u may need to reinstall it or to switch to a different printer and back (sometimes that helps).If u r SURE that the default printer is OK-check your Fonts folder-go to Control Panel>Fonts, or \Windows\Fonts-if u don't see the fonts u want there u may have toinstall them.And if in the File menu ofthat folder u don't see an item "Install New Fonts"-go to http://www.jgoffin.freeserve.co.uk/abf/faq.htm it describes that specific problem along with other fonts troubleshooting.
HTH
Good luck.
Talli

You'll probably right, you installed Office 2000 complete but there is no default printers selected, you probably don't have any printer defined at all so Windows will asume the Generic Text printer as default, with that printer you can not use fancy fonts or drawings or colors. To work around this problem just select a print even if you don't have any. I would suggest you to select an HP Deskjet 680 or 690.
It will fix this problem for sure.

Good luck,

@lberto