Font issue Hypatia

Question

I am using El Capitan 10.11.1 and standalone Office for Mac 2016 ver15.15. I have a long document (105 A4 pages) imported from my old Mac (same OS, Office 2011) where the body text font is Hypatia. When I open this file in Office 2016, the body font shows in the menu bar as Hypatia but another font is actually displayed in the document and Hypatia is not shown in the available Word font drop down list.

I cannot locate the MS font folder anywhere and in the applications folder there is no Office folder or any other additional files as in Office 2011. Only Word, Excel, Powerpoint, OneNote & Outlook are shown.

Any suggestions about resolving this issue would be appreciated.

Answer 1

When Word does not have a font, it substitutes it for another it considers "similar." Thus, Hypatia will appear in font menus, but won't be the real thing.

In W2011, you could verify this behavior and even reassign the substitute font and convert it to something else in Word > Preferences > Compatibility > Font substitution.

W2016 has its own set of fonts now, inside the application's package. However, you can add fonts to your user Fonts folder and they will be listed by Word. To add a font to this folder:

• Go to the Finder
• Press the Option key and click on the Finder's Go menu
• Open Library (as you realize, this is a hidden folder)
• Open Fonts and place your new fonts here
• Any unwanted font can be placed in Fonts Disabled, a folder located next to Fonts (if you don't see it, just create it)

You'll probably need to close and reopen Word for it to become aware of changes in available fonts.

Answer 2

Thanks Daniel. Problem resolved.