Display a font preview in Microsoft Word

The normal font list in Word is not very helpful when you are trying to choose a new font for a document because you can only see the font names, which give no indication of what the fonts look like.

Applying fonts individually is frustrating and takes a lot of time. There is an option that will tell Word to display a preview of the fonts in the Fonts menu from the toolbar.

Click on the Tools menu and then Customise. Click on the Options tab, left-click in the box labelled List font names in their font so a tick appears.

Click on the Close button to save the changes. The fonts will now appear in that dropdown menu. Sometimes there may be a pause as the fonts are loaded.

Word should also show a preview in the styles menu both in the normal document view and when choosing a font when modifying an existing style.