Wednesday, October 7, 2015

How to embed fonts in Word documents so they stay even if you send the file

Sara Shutt wants to email Word documents with an unusual font. But her documents arrive without the font she chose.

Back in the days when we printed our documents and snail-mailed them, this wasn't a problem. But today, if you care about your chosen font, you have to make sure it travels with the document.

That's actually pretty easy with Microsoft Word. But there are, of course, qualifications.

I tested this in Word 2010 and 2013.

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