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Posted 6/29/2008 8:09:36 PM






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I am trying to make my invites but i cant get the font to look good, I have windows xp What did you all do??I love earyones that are posted on here the look professional.

this is the look i am going for

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Posted 6/29/2008 10:16:04 PM






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I went to www.dafont.com and found a bunch of fonts I liked, downloaded them and added them on my computer.  The good thing about that website is you can type in your text to see what it will look like in that font.

To add fonts once you download them (first you have to unzip the folder)

1.  Start --> Control Panel
2.  Switch to "Classic View"
3.  Open the "Fonts" folder
4.  Go "File" ---> "Install new font"
5.  Browse to where you saved your font and install (once you click on the folder where the font is, you need to wait a few seconds for it to show up)
6.  Open Word and try out your fonts!

Hope that helped!  good luck

 

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Posted 6/29/2008 11:15:56 PM






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I just used fonts that I had from Office.  I used Edwardian Script ITC and Copperplate Gothic light (and then I put it in bold.. don't ask why I didn't just use copperplate gothic bold, lol) 



~ September 12th, 2008 ~

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Posted 6/30/2008 1:21:26 AM






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I dont know your exact script, definatly look at downloading them though. I used a standard Word script: Edwardian Script ITC

kinda blurry photo i know. but its a more flowy script than what you are looking for. good luck finding it.

 

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Posted 7/3/2008 7:02:41 PM






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I used a font downloading program as well...just google free fonts, and see what comes up

 

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Posted 7/3/2008 9:44:18 PM






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Beltsie (6/29/2008)
I went to www.dafont.com and found a bunch of fonts I liked, downloaded them and added them on my computer.  The good thing about that website is you can type in your text to see what it will look like in that font.

To add fonts once you download them (first you have to unzip the folder)

1.  Start --> Control Panel
2.  Switch to "Classic View"
3.  Open the "Fonts" folder
4.  Go "File" ---> "Install new font"
5.  Browse to where you saved your font and install (once you click on the folder where the font is, you need to wait a few seconds for it to show up)
6.  Open Word and try out your fonts!

Hope that helped!  good luck

Thanks for the step by step.... but can you tell me how to unzip the folder, lol. I did everything else as you listed and it showed up in Word in the font dropdown list but there was no script there... was blank??? I think that I did not unzip...

Marrying my love, on Sept 20/08... with our children at our side.

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Posted 7/3/2008 10:24:05 PM






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You need to add the fonts in your control pannel.
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