Microsoft Word has a long list of fonts to choose from but depending on what you want to do with the document, you may want to use a font that needs to be added to the list. Good news: fonts are easy to set up.
You’ll need to download the font file before you can add a font in Word. When you download a font from the Internet, it usually comes as a ZIP file you need to open. Most font files will be TrueType (.ttf) or OpenType (.otf) files, both of which can be used with Microsoft Word.
There are many sites where you can get free font files, but make sure you can trust the source before you do. You might get malware if you download something from a place you don’t know about.
Microsoft recommends using DaFont, but you can also download fonts from Font Squirrel and FontSpace. If you like the fonts in Google Docs, you can even get them on your PC by downloading Google fonts.
It’s easy and only takes a few clicks to add a font to Word on Windows. Find the font file on your computer and right-click it. Click “Install” in the menu that pops up to install it for the current user or “Install for All Users” to install it for all user profiles on the PC. If you want to install a font for all users, you must be an administrator.
Or you can also easily extract the file and directly install it.
Now that the font is on your Windows device, it will appear in apps like Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. Set your new font as the default in Word if you want it to be used when you create a new document.
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