By heck, Pranav! It even works! Takes a heck of a while, but obviously in my case has to look at around 80,000 characters. And what's more, I actually managed to do it in that awful Word 2007! Bless you, and may all your code compile flawlessly. George. -----Original Message----- From: program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:program-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pranav Lal Sent: 21 May 2010 10:21 To: program-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [program-l] Re: Odd Word Request George, A quick search on the words get list of fonts used in word document leads me to the following macro from the link http://word.tips.net/Pages/T001522_Creating_a_Document_Font_List.html. Public Sub ListFontsInDoc() Dim FontList(199) As String Dim FontCount As Integer Dim FontName As String Dim J As Integer, K As Integer, L As Integer Dim X As Long, Y As Long Dim FoundFont As Boolean Dim rngChar As Range Dim strFontList As String FontCount = 0 X = ActiveDocument.Characters.Count Y = 0 ' For-Next loop through every character For Each rngChar In ActiveDocument.Characters Y = Y + 1 FontName = rngChar.Font.Name StatusBar = Y & ":" & X ' check if font used for this char already in list FoundFont = False For J = 1 To FontCount If FontList(J) = FontName Then FoundFont = True Next J If Not FoundFont Then FontCount = FontCount + 1 FontList(FontCount) = FontName End If Next rngChar ' sort the list StatusBar = "Sorting Font List" For J = 1 To FontCount - 1 L = J For K = J + 1 To FontCount If FontList(L) > FontList(K) Then L = K Next K If J <> L Then FontName = FontList(J) FontList(J) = FontList(L) FontList(L) = FontName End If Next J StatusBar = "" ' put in new document Documents.Add Selection.TypeText Text:="There are " & _ FontCount & " fonts used in the document, as follows:" Selection.TypeParagraph Selection.TypeParagraph For J = 1 To FontCount Selection.TypeText Text:=FontList(J) Selection.TypeParagraph Next J End Sub On 5/21/10, George Bell <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Before I start a soul destroying Google search, does anyone know of a > quick and easy way to obtain a list of fonts used in a Word 2003 > Document? > > > > I have to produce a fairly complex braille mathematics notation > document, and need to know of any non-standard system fonts used. > (Aside from 9 specific ones which will be distributed with the > document). > > > > This would not be a problem were it not for the fact that even > embedding of fonts in Word is ignored by the mathematics software > whose equations are also embedded in the document. > > > > George. > > > > ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** program-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq