WD97: Macro to Generate List of Available Fonts in Word

• Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

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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   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

   ARTICLE-ID: Q173707
   TITLE     : OFF97: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles

REFERENCES

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

   ARTICLE-ID: Q163435
   TITLE     : VBA: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for 
               Applications