13. The method of claim 1, further comprising the step of generating a replacement font having characteristics matching a font selected by the user for inclusion in the subset when said font that is selected is not among the plurality of fonts installed in the operating system.
1. A method for managing a plurality of fonts installed in an operating system running on a computer, comprising the steps of: (a) installing a font manager program for use with the operating system running on the computer, said font manager program managing access by a user to the plurality of fonts installed in the operating system, within different applications; (b) enabling the user to create a subset of the plurality of fonts installed in the operating system by selecting specific fonts from among said plurality of fonts using the font manager program, said plurality of fonts being available for access and use in documents by the different applications running on the computer even though not included in the subset created by the user with the font manager program; (c) enabling a user to respectively add and delete fonts to and from the subset using the font manager program, without affecting the plurality of fonts installed in the operating system and without affecting the availability of the plurality of fonts for use in documents by any of the different applications running on the computer; and (d) displaying only the subset of fonts that were defined by the user using the font manager program when the user elects to select a font for use in a document, said subset reducing confusion of the user in selecting said font by displaying less than all of the plurality of fonts installed in the operating system when the user selects the font.