I just added one of the free western font files (not the zipped file) to C:\windows\fonts on a system running MS Word 2003. After re-launching Word, only part of the font name appeared in the drop-down list, in fact only 2 of the letters in the font name, which really had 10 characters in the font name. When I typed some text in my Word doc, highlighted the it and changed the font to the one I just installed in Word 2003, it changed the font but only a couple of the letters actually appeared in the new text font and the others were blank, just white space. What happened and how do I fix this?

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What the name of the font you have installed ?
How have you installed it (with maximum of details) ?

Thank you for your reply.

The font name is Lost Saloon. I downloaded the zip file > extracted the file to the desktop > copied a single file to C:\Windows\fonts in MS Word 2003 on an Windows XP system. It was a "true type" font, and the icon did not look like any of the other font icons in the C:\Windows\fonts folder, which were all a blueish green color and looked like an "o" or an "e" or an "a" (I don't recall as I'm not logged onto that computer, which I was, remotely, when I tried to install the font for my client.

Something looks wrong in this sentence.
Please explain how you "copied a single file to C:\Windows\fonts in MS Word 2003"

You need to INSTALL (not copy) the font file
THEN you can USE it somewhere else (ie : Word 2003) but you DONT HAVE TO "COPY" anything anywhere

RTFM here : http://www.dafont.com/faq.php#win

I right-clicked on the file > clicked "copy" (Ctrl + C) > navigated to to C:\Windows\fonts > clicked "paste" (Ctrl + V) ... that's it.

I forgot to check "Noify me of replies via email".

Lost Saloon include only upercase. If you use lowercase, it will appear as a blank.

In Win XP, have you unmark the option "Hide the extension" to know exactly if you have "copy" a font file ?