Fonts in Open Office question(s)

[Bill Freeman]

Summary:

	I'm editing a document in OO, and the font select box on the
tool bar indicates that some of the text is, for example, "Arial".
But when I click the drop down (or use the context menu) to see font
choices, "Arial" is not there (whether the cursor is in "Arial" text
or not).

	Keeping consistent use of font seems important, so I often
want to add text in one of these fonts.  While I've been successful
propagating this font by using cut and paste, this is a PITA.  How can
I get these fonts, of which OO apparently knows, to show up in the
font selection menu?




Background

	I'm somewhat new to OO, having stuck to plain text, LaTeX, and
hand crafted HTML or PostScript in the past.  But I've given up on
refusing to provide my resume in Word format.  Still, I'm not going to
buy (or borrow the use of) a copy of Word.  So I grabbed a resume (CV)
template from the OO web site.  It includes the use of "Arial", among
others, that don't show up in the font selection list.  I could just
change everything to some of the listed fonts, but I would rather
understand what's going on.


Separately

	Have you any advice about features and fonts to avoid or use
to insure that, when saved as a doc file and read with a copy of Word,
the formatting, including page breaks, looks the same?

							Thanks, Bill