How can I find which font is used?

[flobadob]

I want to find out which font is used on a piece of paper I have as I want to rewrite it and correct a spelling mistake. However I'm not sure which font has been used. Is there a site where I can type something in and it will show various fonts all at one time rather than having to go through each individual font in Word. Also, which are the most commonly used fonts in Word as it was probably one of those?

[sasskins]

Times Roman Numeral is very common.

[snags]

Left hand side of this link:

http://www.identifont.com/

[jno]

you could try them out here

http://www.typetester.org/

[snags]

Or photograph/scan a sample of the text and upload to here:

http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/

[4getmenot]

can you not just check it against drop down font list on word

[bibblebub]

FontviewOK http://www.softwareok...e=Freeware/FontViewOK is a downloadable program that will show you how your text will appear

[jno]

just to add that in my link you can delete the text shown and type in your own, which I presume is what you're after.

I'm not sure what you're planning - to overtype the text on paper, or to do it onscreen? If the latter you could do the whole thing in any font you like.

[flobadob]

Thanks for all the answers guys, I've been messing around with snags first link there and I think I'm looking for the Baskerville font. Unfortunately on Word 2007 the only one like that is called Baskerville Old Face. Perhaps the original was done on a different version, probably Word 2003.

[ChuckFickens]

Fonts are nothing to do with what version of word, all versions just use the fonts you have installed on the computer...

You can download baskerville here
http://www.webpagepub...askerville-Normal.ttf

[flobadob]

Thanks Chuck. I've got a sore head, there are so many similarities in one way and then you realise one of the other letters are different. I'm not sure that it is baskerville now. The lower case "o" on the paper is quite narrow but on the baskerville seems wider. There doesn't seen to be any matching the "o".

[snags]

How much text is there in the original? Recreate the whole thing in a 'similar' font?

[flobadob]

I'd say it was done on a PD. Gonna leave it a while.

[combatmummy]

Hi,(it's probably a bit late now but just in case) you could try to correct the spelling mistake using copy and paste to copy the letters you want to change from elsewhere in the text and paste them over the spelling error.

Good luck