How do I determine which fonts are fixed width?

[kadeo]

I have a code that uses a Word application object to get a list of installed fonts which works great. Does anyone know if there's some way I can determine which of them are fixed width fonts? I am writing an add-in for public release and obviously won't know what fonts are installed on a given system. I could keep a list of the most common monospace fonts and compare the list of installed fonts to that to pick out the fixed width ones but was hoping for a more dynamic solution.

[shg]

I think a list would be easiest -- there aren't many monospaced fonts, and there is no font property that tells you if it's monospaced.

Otherwise, I think you'd need to write code that writes a string of i's and a string of w's and compare width.

[kadeo]

Actually that's not a bad solution shg. How would I compare the physical length of a string though?

[shg]

See post #6 in http://www.msofficeforums.com/word/2...ence-word.html

[kadeo]

See post #6 in http://www.msofficeforums.com/word/2...ence-word.html

Thanks shg. That got me on the right track and I got exactly what I needed. For the benefit of any others in need; I'm using a userform so when I came across Dustin's answer here I set up the label the way he described and did something like this:

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[shg]

Good job, thanks for posting back.

[shg]

Another way, using Excel:

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