# How do I fix my Arial font?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 7, 2009, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-fix-my-arial-font/502248 "2009-07-07T20:24:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-fix-my-arial-font/502248/1 "2009-07-07T20:24:39Z")

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Okay, I need help. My Arial Italic font has been “broken” for years, and all efforts to find a _free_ fix have failed. It’s supposed to come free with WinXP, but it’s never worked right, and basically any webpage using italics w/an Arial font makes the screen display like it’s 27,000,000 million pixels wide (give or take a few) – can anyone help me fix this problem?

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**Author:** ![Nametag](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nametag/32/406_2.png) [@Nametag](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nametag)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-fix-my-arial-font/502248/2 "2009-07-07T21:28:07Z")

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The usual advice is to reinstall Windows: Microsoft support is down just now, but they have a page on how to restore default fonts in XP. Search for it.

I think the first thing to do is to delete the offending font, by going to c:\WINDOWS\Fonts and delete ARIALI.TTF. Don’t take my word for it, though, as I’ve never tried it.

You can also download something called “TR Arial Italic” [here](http://www.fontyukle.com/en/TR+Arial++Italic.ttf), but I don’t know if it’s the same.

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**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2009, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-fix-my-arial-font/502248/3 "2009-07-07T21:29:54Z")

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There is a way to change the aspect ratio of a font, so that it acan appear wider or more narrow. Spunds like yours is set rather too wide.

Unfortunately although I can do this in WORD, I don’t know how to do this for webpages.

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**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2009, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-i-fix-my-arial-font/502248/4 "2009-07-19T16:40:35Z")

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> [@casdave](#):
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> Unfortunately although I can do this in WORD, I don’t know how to do this for webpages.

How do you do it in Word?