Microsoft KB Archive/170970

= WD97: Macro to Generate List of Available Fonts in Word =

Article ID: 170970

Article Last Modified on 1/20/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q170970





SUMMARY
This article contains a Visual Basic for Applications macro that generates a list of the fonts available to Microsoft Word, and displays a sample of each font.

The font list generated by this macro depends on the printer selected in the Print dialog box(On the File menu click Print.)



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The following sample Visual Basic for Applications macro creates a new blank document, and inserts a sample of each available font: Sub ListFonts Dim varFont As Variant ' Speeds macro processing and suppresses display. Application.ScreenUpdating = False ' Create new document. Documents.Add Template:="normal" ' Loop through each available font. For Each varFont In FontNames With Selection ' Format for name of font. .Font.Name = "times new roman" .Font.Bold = True .Font.Underline = True ' Insert Font name. .TypeText varFont ' Insert a new paragraph after the Font Name. .InsertParagraphAfter ' Move to the new paragraph. .MoveDown unit:=wdParagraph, Count:=1, Extend:=wdMove ' Format for the font example. .Font.Bold = False .Font.Underline = False .Font.Name = varFont ' Enter example text(Alphabetic characters.) .TypeText "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" ' Insert a new paragraph. .InsertParagraphAfter ' Move to the new paragraph. .MoveDown unit:=wdParagraph, Count:=1, Extend:=wdMove ' Insert example text(Numeric characters.) .TypeText "0123456789?$%&[]*_-=+/<>" ' Insert two new paragraphs and move down. .InsertParagraphAfter .InsertParagraphAfter .MoveDown unit:=wdParagraph, Count:=1, Extend:=wdMove End With Next varFont Application.ScreenUpdating = True End Sub For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

173707 OFF97: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles

