How to extract fonts from Office 2000 Pro

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How to extract fonts from Office 2000 Pro

2003 offers only very few fonts

henry0

12:05 pm on Jul 19, 2006 (gmt 0)

I am disappointed with the range of fonts (default) offered by Office 2003.
I just bought a couple of new very nice laptops from Dell with office installed by default.
Before I always used my 2000 office pro CD to install a custom install of Office.

My question is: How may I extract the fonts from my 2000 CD without the auto exe cranking on and trying to I install a redundant and secondary install of office 2000.

celgins

12:24 pm on Jul 19, 2006 (gmt 0)

If you're using XP, simply place the CD into the drive and cancel the install screen that pops up.

- Open My Computer and right-click on your CD drive.

- Select Explore, and you should get access to the CD-ROM's contents.

This should get you around the Autorun feature.

I think that's what you're looking for, but post back if not.

Terabytes

12:51 pm on Jul 19, 2006 (gmt 0)

another method of stopping the autorun feature is simply to:

hold down the left "shift" key after you insert the CD...it will still spin up...but it won't launch...

you have to hold it for a few seconds...

just my $0.02...

henry0

2:54 pm on Jul 19, 2006 (gmt 0)

That should do it for the Auto Run

If I am not overdoing it :)
Do you happen to know which cab I should look for?

Thanks

henry0

3:31 pm on Jul 19, 2006 (gmt 0)

The Fonts folder does not seem to be with the Office CD
Possibly on XP pro CD, since on the local HDD its location is C:\Windows.
Hmmm cannot find it, any clue?

<Edit>
Well, it commes with XP CD but its location is?
</edit>

henry0

7:07 pm on Jul 19, 2006 (gmt 0)

Thanks
case closed
I reloaded the removed HDD from the discarded PC
and copied the fonts folder from Windows, glad I didn't as usualy sledgehammered that HDD :)

celgins

7:57 pm on Jul 19, 2006 (gmt 0)

Good to hear you retrieved those fonts! Microsoft products don't have the best with their applications.