Q170970: WD97: Macro to Generate List of Available Fonts in Word

Article: Q170970
Product(s): Word 97 for Windows
Version(s): WINDOWS:97
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbdta kbdtacode kbmacroexample word8 kbwordvba word97 kbFont
Last Modified: 13-MAY-2002

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Word 97 for Windows 
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SUMMARY
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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.)

MORE INFORMATION
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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:

  Q173707 OFF97: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles


REFERENCES
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For more information about getting help with Visual Basic for Applications,
please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  Q163435 VBA: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for Applications

Additional query words: wordcon vb vba vbe generator preview fontsamplegenerator

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Keywords          : kbdta kbdtacode kbmacroexample word8 kbwordvba word97 kbFont 
Technology        : kbWordSearch kbWord97 kbWord97Search kbZNotKeyword2
Version           : WINDOWS:97
Issue type        : kbhowto

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