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The forum thread discusses a user experiencing issues with the Century Gothic font disappearing from Microsoft Word 2010 after Windows updates. The troubleshooting includes repairing MS Office, downloading the font from third-party sources, and concerns about potential malware from font downloads. Ultimately, the recommended solutions involve repairing or reinstalling MS Office, checking font availability, and ensuring system health to resolve the font display problems.
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> Running Windows 7 Home Premium with Microsoft Office 2010 (Microsoft Word 2010).

I've had the Century Gothic font since I first installed Microsoft Office, and haven't had a problem with the program up until now. I haven't done anything recently other than simply update Windows, but I've found that my choice to select Century Gothic had disappeared while using Microsoft Word 2010.

I realized it might just be deactivated and went to Control Panel > Appearance and Personalization > Fonts to reactivate it, but it wasn't even on that hefty list to do so. It wasn't in my recycle bin either, and I'm not sure where to download it.

I realize Century Gothic isn't a free font, but I've already paid my dues. Why did it suddenly disappear, and how can I get it back? I've already written multiple documents with that font and am not too keen on using another in its place.

Please help!
 

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What I would do, is to uninstall MS Office completely - DO SAFE COPY YOUR FILES -, run CCleaner to check / repair the registry, then restart the computer, run a complete scan with whatever AV you have, plus Malwarebytes. Then install MS Office again.

Your problem may not sound serious, "it's just a font", but it may indicate more severe issues. If that is the case, it's a gateway opened. I'm not crying "wolf" here, but wolves know us before we know them. By instinct, a wolf recognizes a human from more than 4 kilometers away.

All the very best.
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Beware - most of these downloads install a range of junk and crapware - things like browser hijackers' trial copies of software you can't get rid of, system "cleaners" which install far more jun k than they clean etc, etc . . .
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It's obviously Century Gothic? According to Link Removed it should come with the pack. It may be corrupted, thus what Pat says, repair / reinstall might do it. If I were you, I'd start there. No need to look for fish further than the sea - a Finnish proverb.
 

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patcooke said:
Have you tried running a repair of MS Office?
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It's obviously Century Gothic? According to Link Removed it should come with the pack. It may be corrupted, thus what Pat says, repair / reinstall might do it. If I were you, I'd start there. No need to look for fish further than the sea - a Finnish proverb.
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I actually hadn't thought of repairing, no, thanks for pointing that out!

I just did a repair from the "Programs and Features" section in Control Panel. Unfortunately when Microsoft Word loaded up, the Century Gothic font still wasn't on the pull-down list to choose from. However, I was able to type in Century Gothic in the text box, and it allowed me to type in the font (unlike before). This made me think that I could re-try to activate it in the Fonts folder (Control Panel), but it still wasn't there either. Apparently I can't see it anywhere, but I can type it in and use it now anyway. Weird... but I'll take it!

Thanks, everyone!

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Well... I can type in Century Gothic, like I said... and the font DOES change. But it doesn't always change to Century Gothic. I often get a message saying "The font Century Gothic is not available on your system. Do you want to use it anyway?" I click "yes"... but it's not the proper font that shows up.

So it looks like I still have a problem after all. :(
 

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What I would do, is to uninstall MS Office completely - DO SAFE COPY YOUR FILES -, run CCleaner to check / repair the registry, then restart the computer, run a complete scan with whatever AV you have, plus Malwarebytes. Then install MS Office again.

Your problem may not sound serious, "it's just a font", but it may indicate more severe issues. If that is the case, it's a gateway opened. I'm not crying "wolf" here, but wolves know us before we know them. By instinct, a wolf recognizes a human from more than 4 kilometers away.

All the very best.
 

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Agree with Pauli, uninstall, clean registry, reboot and re-install - probably less than twenty minutes work and should certainly sort it.
 

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