Fonts and illustrator

I'm having a horrible time trying to get my fonts into illustrator, I downloaded about 200 fonts from the internet, and can't get them into illustator. I used to use and still do use corel 10. Needless to say the instant i put my disc of fonts in my harddrive they were automatically downloaded to corel 10, i didn't have to do anything, the same can't be said for illustrator.

Assuming you're on Windows, install the fonts with the Windows Fonts Control Panel. Then they will be available to all applications, including Illustrator.
JET

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