Adobe Illustrator/missing fonts

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When I open a file in AI, it shows a missing font box, but it won't allow me to substitute them? Is it my new computer windows vista? or what? Please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bonnie

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To avoid people getting missing font warnings, when a person saves an illustrator file containing text with the intention of sending it to another computer, all text should be outlined. To do this select the text box with the selection tool and go to Type > Create Outlines.
If you can get the person who created the file to do this and then re send it, you will not need to have any of the fonts installed on your computer.

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