To add a new font to your Mac, download the desired font, open it in Font Book and click 'Install Font' to make the font available to all compatible applications on the computer. Font Book displays a preview of the font so that you can evaluate it. That reduced the fonts showing in Word by a few, but Word continued to show some fonts (well, at least one, I didn't check further) that are not in that folder. Word was still finding Century Gothic. After I moved the Fonts folder back to the disk Library, Word was the way it was before, showing some of the fonts in that folder, but not all.

Step 1: You first have to find the fonts online to download. And are two great resources for free fonts. Almost all the fonts you’ll find are in the (TTF) format, which Apple created in the ’80s and is used widely on both Macs and PCs to this day. Step 2: It’s a good thing I’m not paid by the word, because Apple has made this far too easy. Double click on the.ttf file and Font Book will pop open and ask you to install it. One more click and you’re done! Microsoft word for mac glitches.

The font will now appear in the fonts window in every program you use. On a PC you would need to restart programs like Photoshop to see the new fonts, but not in OS X, they should be instantly available.