Word allows you to embed fonts in your document, with a couple of caveats. Word does provide a potential solution to this mess: you can embed fonts in a document. Thus, text will flow differently on the target system and lines or pages will not break at the same place as originally intended. Even if the substituted font results in a readable document, your precise formatting may no longer apply since Word uses the character widths and sizing of the substituted font, not the original. In some cases, the results are an unreadable mess with symbols being substituted for characters and vice-versa. Why is this? If you use a particular font in a document, then send that document to another person who does not have that font on their system, Word tries to figure out what font it can use as a substitute for the font you used. If they don't, then they may not be able to read the information you send. If you are sharing your documents with others, you will want to make sure that they have the same fonts you used in the document. The fonts you use in a document determine exactly how that document appears when viewed or printed.
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