Font‑o‑Rama

Welcome to Font‑o‑Rama!

Font‑o‑Rama is a Microsoft Word 97 template that will generate a sample of all the fonts on your computer, in an easy‑to‑read, printable Word 97 document. Font‑o‑Rama makes extensive use of macros, so you must make sure that macros are enabled in Word 97 when you use Font‑o‑Rama.

1. Installation
To install Font‑o‑Rama, first unZip the files in FontRama20.zip into a temporary directory of your choosing. There should be three files: Font‑o‑Rama.dot, What’s New.rtf and this file, ReadMe.rtf.

Now locate your Microsoft Office directory. The default location for this on most computers is C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office, although you may have installed yours to a different directory. Once you have located this directory, copy the file Font‑o‑Rama.dot to the folder
“..\Microsoft Office\Templates\Other Documents”.

Now you're ready to play!

2. Launching Font‑o‑Rama
To run Font‑o‑Rama, start Microsoft Word. Go to the file menu and choose File, New. When the box comes up with all the different types of documents you can create, go to the “Other Documents” tab. There you should see Font‑o‑Rama.dot. Click on this and click the OK button.

Now Font‑o‑Rama will take over. Font‑o‑Rama will ask you a few questions, and then it will create your font sample document. This may take a little while if you have a lot of fonts on your system. When it’s done, you’ll have a complete display of all your fonts. You will probably want to print this out. It makes a handy desk-side reference when you’re trying to decide on a font to use.

3. About Font‑o‑Rama
Font‑o‑Rama is distributed as shareware. It contains no expiration date, no time‑out and is fully functional. What this means is you may download and use this template for as long as you wish without acknowledging my existence whatsoever, and nothing bad will happen to you (except for some nagging guilt in the back of your mind).

However, I put a lot of effort and a lot of time into creating this template; time I spent not paying attention to my wife. She forgives me because she's such a wonderful and understanding woman, but I'd still like to make it up to her.

If you have downloaded this template and used it and enjoyed it, if you have found it as useful as I have (I rerun it every few months, just to make sure it’s up‑to‑date!), and if you believe that an understanding wife is a rare jewel who should be treated with kindness and respect, then you can help me treat my wife to a romantic evening out, just the two of us, to make up for the time I spent creating this template for your enjoyment by sending me a little token of appreciation ($5.00) to:

	Eric Rice
	675 Moorland Road  #204
	Madison, WI  53713

If you send a check, please also make it out to "Eric Rice" and write "Font‑o‑Rama" on the memo line.

Also, if you send me your e‑mail address along with your "token", I'll include you on my mailing list so I can notify you when I finish the next update to Font‑o‑Rama, or when I have created any other fun templates or shareware utilities.

Thank You,
Eric Rice
January 31, 2000

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