Any way to save fonts with templates?

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Is there a way to embed fonts into Excel templates? That would save a
lot of grief.

Thanks.
 
Nope.

Send the font file and have them install it, too????
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<sigh> That one is going to be tough.

The only way around this is to try to keep all the fonts on one disk
and then put a comment in the template so that I know which ones to
install at any given time.

Why didn't they include this in Excel?? Seems like a huge oversight.

Thanks.
 
I like to think of excel as a number cruncher--not a desktop publisher.

But the lines get blurry as time goes on.

You could send a request to (e-mail address removed)
(include excel in your subject so the right group gets it)
 
I like to think of excel as a number cruncher--not a desktop publisher.
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True, but we also like our templates, even if they are number
crunching ones, to have consistent look. I opened up a template at
work the other day and all the headers in the columns were off and the
whole thing looked horrible and didn't line up properly. I realized
that I must have used a font to create that template that I had at
home so came back only to find the same problem here. It was a font
from my collection but I had to go and ask in a font ng to id it for
me as I no longer remembered what it was called. All that bother!

So no, we're not looking to use XL as a desktop publishing tool
necessarily but I do create documents in it full of tables as I prefer
it over Word. I love Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook and couldn't live
without them but Word I simply can't stand. But Excel definitely
does need this feature.
But the lines get blurry as time goes on.
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You could send a request to (e-mail address removed)
(include excel in your subject so the right group gets it)
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Thanks. I will do this as it's become vital.

As a contract worker, I need complete portability for office and
convenience at home in not having to install _all_ the fonts I have
and use in my collection. I certainly don't now as my system would
crash. My fonts folder on the D drive has 545 fonts in it currently.
There's a folder on my desktop with another 193 to go through and I
 
I don't know about current versions of windows, but having an excess of fonts
can slow down lots of things. I _think_ that lots of applications (office
apps), load the fonts when you start the program.

And then when weird stuff happens, it could be difficult to diagnose.

So having all those fonts can cause trouble along the way. (I've tossed (er,
moved to a safe location) lots of fonts that I never, ever used--but looked neat
at first viewing.)

I did keep "Dear Teacher", though.

http://www.momscorner4kids.com/fonts/

(don't go there, you might end up with more!)
 
I don't know about current versions of windows, but having an excess of fonts
can slow down lots of things. I _think_ that lots of applications (office
apps), load the fonts when you start the program.
Click to expand...

Not the ones I bring from home, that's the trouble. I don't install
fonts at the office but that is only a problem with my Excel
templates. My WP and Word ones are fine because I embed them, so end
of worries. So this is a serious problem for me re Excel.
And then when weird stuff happens, it could be difficult to diagnose.
Click to expand...

Yes, but as I mentioned earlier, I don't install fonts <g>. What gets
put on my machine when I install a program is one thing. I actually
only physically myself install a handful - probably not even a dozen,
all told. I'm something of a fontaholic and have somewhere between
1000 and 2000 fonts so far in my collection if you consider what I
have burned to CD <g>.

I use a very handy font viewer to get around the Windows limitation.
It's called "Font Runner" which is the best I've seen of its kind. My
machine at 128 SDRAM slows down a bit when it runs, but it does such a
super fantastic job that it's worth it. I categorize my many fonts
and then group them by folder. "Font Runner" works on a folder tree
system and it's unique in that when viewing each folder, all fonts
contained in that folder become active. So all the fonts in any
viewed folder are then found under apps that work with open fonts,
whether they are installed or not. I'm not sure many people know of
that trick. Anyone who doesn't know this can try it:

Open an uninstalled font so that that the ttf shows up in its own
window. If you launch Word, for example, you can then see that font
under the listed ones as if it were, indeed, installed. If you type
some text in but then close the font window, that font disappears and
your text gets screwed up. But it's great for graphics work where we
use quite a few fonts for different effects, esp. dingbat or picture
ones. Most apps will work with uninstalled fonts though I have run
across the odd one that doesn't. But things like WP, Word and Paint
Shop Pro, etc., etc., do.

A great way around the serious performance/size limitations of fonts
Windows will allow installed.

But this doesn't fix the Excel problem because, again, I've created
many time-saving templates here at home over the years that I use off
an on at contracts I'm sent to. Without embedding the font, I'm
occasionally quite stuck.

The only thing I'll be able to do is to try to remember when I create
them in future is to put a comment in the top-most cell about the font
used in case I ever run into this again and to carry yet another set
of items on a floppy when I go to new contracts <sigh>.

There are just times when only one font will do, as was the case with
the template that started this thread.
So having all those fonts can cause trouble along the way. (I've tossed (er,
moved to a safe location) lots of fonts that I never, ever used--but looked neat
at first viewing.)

I did keep "Dear Teacher", though.

http://www.momscorner4kids.com/fonts/
Click to expand...

OH NO! said:
(don't go there, you might end up with more!)
Click to expand...

Hey, with the number already in my collection, what's a few more!

[snip]
 
I tend to stay with the fonts built into windows (Arial mostly) for excel.

But if you're doing this for a client, I would imagine that it becomes even more
difficult to make sure they have your fonts installed on all the pc's that need
to use the template.

And if they get new pcs, or just have to reinstall stuff (some kind of
recovery), then I would think that this makes it even more difficult.

I guess I'm happy with Arial and Courier New!




I don't know about current versions of windows, but having an excess of fonts
can slow down lots of things. I _think_ that lots of applications (office
apps), load the fonts when you start the program.
Click to expand...

Not the ones I bring from home, that's the trouble. I don't install
fonts at the office but that is only a problem with my Excel
templates. My WP and Word ones are fine because I embed them, so end
of worries. So this is a serious problem for me re Excel.
And then when weird stuff happens, it could be difficult to diagnose.
Click to expand...

Yes, but as I mentioned earlier, I don't install fonts <g>. What gets
put on my machine when I install a program is one thing. I actually
only physically myself install a handful - probably not even a dozen,
all told. I'm something of a fontaholic and have somewhere between
1000 and 2000 fonts so far in my collection if you consider what I
have burned to CD <g>.

I use a very handy font viewer to get around the Windows limitation.
It's called "Font Runner" which is the best I've seen of its kind. My
machine at 128 SDRAM slows down a bit when it runs, but it does such a
super fantastic job that it's worth it. I categorize my many fonts
and then group them by folder. "Font Runner" works on a folder tree
system and it's unique in that when viewing each folder, all fonts
contained in that folder become active. So all the fonts in any
viewed folder are then found under apps that work with open fonts,
whether they are installed or not. I'm not sure many people know of
that trick. Anyone who doesn't know this can try it:

Open an uninstalled font so that that the ttf shows up in its own
window. If you launch Word, for example, you can then see that font
under the listed ones as if it were, indeed, installed. If you type
some text in but then close the font window, that font disappears and
your text gets screwed up. But it's great for graphics work where we
use quite a few fonts for different effects, esp. dingbat or picture
ones. Most apps will work with uninstalled fonts though I have run
across the odd one that doesn't. But things like WP, Word and Paint
Shop Pro, etc., etc., do.

A great way around the serious performance/size limitations of fonts
Windows will allow installed.

But this doesn't fix the Excel problem because, again, I've created
many time-saving templates here at home over the years that I use off
an on at contracts I'm sent to. Without embedding the font, I'm
occasionally quite stuck.

The only thing I'll be able to do is to try to remember when I create
them in future is to put a comment in the top-most cell about the font
used in case I ever run into this again and to carry yet another set
of items on a floppy when I go to new contracts <sigh>.

There are just times when only one font will do, as was the case with
the template that started this thread.
So having all those fonts can cause trouble along the way. (I've tossed (er,
moved to a safe location) lots of fonts that I never, ever used--but looked neat
at first viewing.)

I did keep "Dear Teacher", though.

http://www.momscorner4kids.com/fonts/
Click to expand...

OH NO! said:
(don't go there, you might end up with more!)
Click to expand...

Hey, with the number already in my collection, what's a few more!

[snip]
Click to expand...
 
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