Verdana font?

  • Thread starter Thread starter John Smart
  • Start date Start date
J

John Smart

My new WinXP laptop from Dell does not provide the
Verdana font. I thought all Windows o.s. versions had
Verdana, as it's fairly common on web sites and (I
thought) in ms-word. I searched microsoft.com for a way
to download / install the Verdana font - no luck. Can
anyone point me in the right direction? I'm running WinXP
5.1 Build 2600.xpsp2.030427-1633. Many thanks, John
 
John said:
My new WinXP laptop from Dell does not provide the
Verdana font. I thought all Windows o.s. versions had
Verdana, as it's fairly common on web sites and (I
thought) in ms-word. I searched microsoft.com for a way
to download / install the Verdana font - no luck. Can
anyone point me in the right direction? I'm running WinXP
5.1 Build 2600.xpsp2.030427-1633. Many thanks, John
Click to expand...

Copy it from another XP machine?
 
.... and then reinstall it on the machine you copied from or it will be
missing from that machine.

John Allen
 
John said:
My new WinXP laptop from Dell does not provide the
Verdana font. I thought all Windows o.s. versions had
Verdana, as it's fairly common on web sites and (I
thought) in ms-word. I searched microsoft.com for a way
to download / install the Verdana font - no luck. Can
anyone point me in the right direction? I'm running WinXP
5.1 Build 2600.xpsp2.030427-1633. Many thanks, John
Click to expand...

Shenan said:
Copy it from another XP machine?
Click to expand...

John said:
... and then reinstall it on the machine you copied from or it will be
missing from that machine.
Click to expand...

I have to ask - why will it be missing?
 
John Smart said:
My new WinXP laptop from Dell does not provide the
Verdana font. I thought all Windows o.s. versions had
Verdana, as it's fairly common on web sites and (I
thought) in ms-word. I searched microsoft.com for a way
to download / install the Verdana font - no luck. Can
anyone point me in the right direction? I'm running WinXP
5.1 Build 2600.xpsp2.030427-1633. Many thanks, John
Click to expand...

Do a search for Verdana.tt_. You should have a compressed copy in your I386
folder. If you do, you can use expand.exe {same folder} to expand a copy to
your Fonts folder and then use Control Panel, Fonts to install the font.

Don
 
If I copy a font from the fonts folder it uninstalls it from the fonts
folder (XP Home). I read in a post somewhere that this is to do with
copyright. I don't know if this happens with all or some fonts.

John Allen
 
John said:
If I copy a font from the fonts folder it uninstalls it from the fonts
folder (XP Home). I read in a post somewhere that this is to do with
copyright. I don't know if this happens with all or some fonts.
Click to expand...

If you open a window on Windows\Fonts and another in some other folder,
and right drag; copy here across, it does not get deleted
 
Back
Top