Missing font

Question

I like my Office subscription. Yet I am disappointed that the New Times Roman is no longer a default font with the Word 2013. A lot of documents have New Times Roman. When you paste an excerpt of text into a document-a thesis or essay- perhaps a print quote or text citation; there you have why I am teed-off! It gets all jacked up and looks like you did not make a sufficient effort to prepare your document. It appears as if you placed material without correctly formatting. Part of the text looks one way and then the other. Most of the instructors I know want your work to be commensurable with college level presentations. So now I need to re-type everything that is in New Times Roman!!Grrr. So yes, I need to spend extra minutes preparing my assignments. You said this was for students and then you pull a stunt like this. Thanks a bunch for all your professionalism.

Answer 1

Why would you need to retype it? Just change the font to match what's already in the document! Or paste it unformatted ("Keep Text Only"). Or you could modify your Normal template to use Times New Roman instead of Calibri.

Your first two suggestions do not work to produce a college level document because for whatever reason Word does not match the fonts correctly so that your professor will look at what will pass as a college level word processing document. Until someone tells you how to change the default, you end up with mismatched fonts. And YES, surprise! New Times Roman is not a presented choice when changing fonts, or normal.dot or template or whatever .

Next, I need to modify the Normal template?

First, why is this relatively complex scenario needed to change the text in the document? Well, Microsoft or some person decided that New Times Roman was no longer a font that should appear in the drop-down list of fonts.

I guess millions and millions and millions of Word users just wanted to get rid of New Times Roman.

Respectfully,

Dennis Boyer

Answer 2

Yeah, so from time immemorial and they decide to change it!!?? BAD MOVE

Answer 3

If you are looking for "New Times Roman," then of course you will not find the font, which is called "Times New Roman." If you want all your documents to use TNR instead of Calibri, it is easy enough to change the default font. For clear instructions, see http://www.solveyourtech.com/how-to-change-the-default-font-in-word-2013/.

Answer 4

You are right Times New Roman is not included with Office 2013, but it IS included with Windows 7 and 8 and just about every other version of Windows since time immemorial, so no-one, least of all Microsoft has got rid of it.

If you have the font installed on your system and the currently active printer driver is capable of printing it, then it will be displayed in the Word font list. If you don't have a printer driver installed, it won't and you will see only a very limited set of fonts.

Microsoft made a design choice to switch to a new family of fonts back in 2007 and Calibri is the default. However it is a simple matter to change the default font to whatever you like, including Times New Roman. That default is stored in the normal template, which for Word 2013 is normal.dotm.

When you paste text into an existing document, and use the unformatted option as Suzanne suggested, then the inserted text adopts the style at the cursor, whatever that is. That's why it is called 'unformatted'.

Answer 5

Why would you need to retype it? Just change the font to match what's already in the document! Or paste it unformatted ("Keep Text Only"). Or you could modify your Normal template to use Times New Roman instead of Calibri.