Removing Font Options?

I’m neck-deep in font work on my project. Right now I have to scroll up through tons of fonts that I don’t use and never will use in order to get the one I do want.

Is there a way to remove all these useless font options? I’ve tried “hiding” the fonts in Windows but it doesn’t make a difference in Scriv. I hate having to scroll up and down through all these useless fonts - I just want the ones I use to be available.

Is this even possible? How does anyone put up with this?

I believe you’d have to uninstall them from your system.

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Windows says they’re system-required and won’t let me uninstall them.

How to Manage Your Fonts in Windows | PCMag.

I came to post here after following that website’s advice. :sweat_smile:

Does everyone just scroll through fifteen different versions of Bahnschrift every time they want to use a font that starts with A?

So, hiding them using the control panel doesn’t work either ?
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You could have xxxxxxx set in the fonts you need, all of them in a document set as a project bookmark, and copy paste the right xxxxx whenever you need a font. (Then select it and type away.)
Clunky, but it’d work. Perhaps it’d be faster than scrolling through your list.

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That could work, but at this point I’m just going to put up with it. I don’t understand why I seem to be the only one who just wants to see a select list of fonts in a project.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/how-to-pick-favorite-fonts-in-windows-and-not-see/5ffbed43-aa31-4a52-937a-0a210516dac3

Have you tried hiding fonts through the control panel?
There too, they say to do it this way.

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P.S. No, I don’t scroll through fonts. I use styles.

You can also use copy and paste formatting. It works. But the downside is that it pastes all of the formatting. Indents and all.

And by the way, the home and end keys work in the fonts list. :wink: So that’s already a fix for your fonts in A. lol

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I grab the scroll bar at the As, and with one swipe of my thumb on the trackball I can scroll all the way down to the Ys.

Of course, I can easily stop anywhere in the middle, and can do the same with the smaller font panel available from the right-click menu.

So navigating the font list has never been an issue for me. It is more trouble with a mouse?

Best,
Jim

Fonts are listed in alphabetical order.
Bahnschrift starts with B.
So no need to scroll much looking for a font that starts with A.
Press the first letter of the font and see where Windows takes you.

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Why using the font picker at all? Do you have to use so many different fonts?

And as mentioned before, there are character and paragraph styles. If you don’t have too many you won’t have to scroll there.

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Can’t you just install a font manager?

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This is a non-issue. Simply press the first letter of the Font you need. There’s nothing to put up with except unfounded claims.

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