MS Sans Serif font missing

The problem is that the creator of these fonts is MS itself, not another person who illegally used the name. The confusion started from the fact that, at a given moment, MS changed some (essential) features of the font, continuing with a similar name. The problem evoked, i.e. inexistence of older generation of MS SS, against the now current MS SS new generation, in which MS is written in full, is—in my mind—less confusing than using Arial, TNR etc. for fonts also belonging to varoious generations. If someone send a text written in such an old version of TNR, say, will have similar problems, even if the font has the same name.

When I first read about MS SS I thought the person referred to current newer version, because using MS for the full name of the company is usual, largely spread. I had not imagined that someone still uses that old font but, indeed, this may still happen.

I apologize but if something is confused, it's in your brain.

M…oSoft delivered a font name MS SANS Serif.

Later, it delivered a font named Microsoft Sans Serif.

I don't know if it was at the same time or later but it delivered a third font named MS Reference Sans Serif.

Nothing confused in that except for those deciding that MS Sans Serif and Microsoft Sans Serif are the same or similar font names.

They are two perfectly different ones.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 28 février 2012

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Try deleting one and see if it helps. You can alway Undo if it didn't help.

Yvan, MS is short for Microsoft, so indeed the full name is Microsoft Sans Serif; and TNR is short for Times New Roman.

Issue closed.

Read this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MS_Sans_Serif

You are right and you can read it on the wikipedia page.