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For many years, fonts have been the scourge of the Desktop publisher. Things are getting better now, but you will still come across times when a font is gone missing. Sometimes you may be opening it from one computer to another or cross-platform and while you have the font in, perhaps the name has just changed a little bit and it doesn't open properly. It's just something you are going to encounter. So let me show you how to deal with it as best I can. Pull down the file menu, open recent and I have this file here where I know there is a font problem. Here it says the document this font is missing. Gil Sans T1 - it's not terminator, it's type 1 - condensed is missing. We can go to find font or OK. Let me click on OK for a moment. Notice there's this big pink area here and pink area here. That's not really in the design because if I go into the Preview Mode like this, you can see it's missing. It's just highlighting the area where font substitution has taken place. It knows it's a font, so it has to put something in there, but obviously it shouldn't look like this. So how do we deal with it? Well, you can go out to your system, find the missing font file and reinstall it. Now, this will definitely be different from Mac to PC and I personally use a font management program. There are a number of them out there and I highly recommend you use one. Whichever one it is, use one that works well for you and I think you'll find that it's well worth the money that you spend on it. You'll simply go out and let me just go to the one that I use at the moment. It's one called Font Navigator here. It actually is free with Corel Draw, so it's a nice little feature. It's a little old. You would go down here, find the font that you want, and there's Gil Sans. I'm nearly there. There's so many fonts that I have here, it's sometimes very, very difficult to actually find them. So I have Gil Sands Condensed Bold. Just drag it over here and it would be installed, but I'm not going to do that. That's too easy. What happens if you don't have the font? You've got this from somebody else. You're going to have to do something else. You can go out and buy it or you can go to font substitution and that's what I'm going to show you how to do. You can go to type, find font. Here again, it shows you the one that is missing. You can go to find first. It's pretty obvious where these ones are, but sometimes in a long document you may not even know where it is and when you go looking for it, you might find it's just an empty space, a Spacebar or an extra line with nothing in it that has got this font in it and that way it's easy to change, doesn't really matter what you substitute it with. Go to find first. It shows me. Find next an it just highlights where it is. So if you're not sure where it is, you can do that. So what we can do is we can substitute it. Let's go substitute Times Roman and I'll just hit change all, like that and hit done and look at it. It got cut off. Everything is completely different. That really wasn't a good substitution. Gil Sans is a sans serif font and I've substituted it with a serif font, so that really isn't very good at all, so I'm just going to close this out, not save it and reopen it again and this time I'll go straight into find font and we'll look for something a little bit better. Obviously you've got to know your fonts in order to do this, but I'm just going to choose Swiss 21. Swiss is just another name for Helvetica, so it's really much the same. This is a condensed font as well, so I will just hit change all, click on done and it still changes it because notice it doesn't fit in the text frame, but I can just adjust it a little bit more, like that and adjust this one a little bit. I'm going to have to go to the direct select tool here, select it, just drag it out. I'm having a little bit of trouble. I just want to ungroup this first. It's going to make it a lot easier. And select here, drag it out like that and there I've changed the font, so it will look a little bit closer to the original, but fonts change how things look, so you've got to be careful with it. Obviously it's better if you have the exact same font and substitute itÉnot substitute it, but install it so that it takes on the right form.