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emmaa90588193
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December 8, 2023
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Adobe fonts not showing up in Microsoft Office

  • December 8, 2023
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Hi,

I've designed a visual identity for a client using Neue Haas Grotesk as their new font. They are Creative Suite subscribers and are able to activate the font and use it in InDesign, Illustrator etc, but neither of us can see the font in any of the Microsoft Office programs (PowerPoint, Word, Excel). We've activated the fonts months ago and restarted all programs multiple times, but Neue Haas Grotesk just doesn't show up in the font list. It's supposed to work seamlessly with Microsoft Office for Mac, right? Do they really have to buy the font as well, just to be able to use it in PowerPoint and Word?

 

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      Trition
      Participant
      March 19, 2024

      Hi emmaa, did you find a solution?

      I'm having the same issue. Font (DIN 2014) is installed, double double-checked this in the Adobe Creative Cloud app, but it won't appear in any office applications. For some of my colleagues, it works, and for some of us, it doesn't. All are working on Macs.

        emmaa90588193
        emmaa90588193Author
        Participant
        March 19, 2024

        Hi! No, unfortunately not... I can still not see the font in any Microsoft Office apps. I even tried buying it as well, and disconnect the Adobe font, but that didn't work either! Very strange.

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        Bobby HendersonCommunity Expert
        Community Expert
        December 8, 2023

        Have you opened the Creative Cloud desktop app and installed the fonts? In the past, when Adobe Fonts worked primarily via the Adobe Fonts website it only took adding a type family there for the fonts to show up in all applications installed on a Creative Cloud subscriber's computer. Things are a bit different now. Merely adding a type family at the Adobe Fonts website will make the fonts visible in Adobe apps. In order to make the added fonts visible to all apps on a computer you have to open the CC desktop app, open the fonts section, scroll through the fonts list and click the "Install Family" button next to added fonts that aren't already visible to all apps.

          emmaa90588193
          emmaa90588193Author
          Participant
          December 11, 2023

          Wow, I didn't know that! I thought it was enough to activate the fonts via the browser. Thank you!

          I've installed the fonts via the CC desktop app and restarted everything, but unfortunately the fonts still do not show up in PowerPoint, despite re-installing it 😞
          Any ideas as to what I can try next? Thanks so much for your time.

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            Community Expert
            Bobby HendersonCommunity Expert
            Community Expert
            December 11, 2023

            Is there anything unusual about the fonts you added? I don't use PowerPoint, so I don't know the application's possible limitations with font formats. Adobe Fonts has a growing number of Variable Fonts and even some SVG "Color" Fonts. I don't know if those kinds of fonts are compatible with PowerPoint. If you're adding normal OpenType fonts and they're not appearing in PowerPoint that would certainly be an odd problem. Are you seeing the fonts in any other non-Adobe applications?

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