Fonts not appearing in InDesign

Hi,
Does anyone know why some fonts won't appear in InDesign even though they are in my Fonts folder on Local Disk? I also tried putting a copy in the Fonts folder in InDesign, but they still don't appear in the program.
Thanks,
Jen

Hi Everyone,
Thank you for all of your responses. I apologize for the late comment; I left work early on Friday and didn't get to try deleting the Adobe Font lists. Interestingly enough though, yesterday (Monday) the Arial Black regular showed up in both Photoshop and InDesign but in the list under Arial. Arial Black still only shows the italic option. I swear though that when I scanned the font lists in both programs to make sure they weren't out of order some place else, that it wasn't there, and even in InDesign, it highlighted my text to tell me I was missing the font. When I opened the same file yesterday, it no longer showed the highlight. I tried restarting the computer on Friday too though, so I don't know what the difference was between Friday and Monday, but the Arial Black regular is there now, so I'll just go along with it.
Thank you!
Jen

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> An associate suggested that sometimes Flash doesn't like
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> non-standard; in other words, it doesn't like "Heavy",
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> This seems to support the fonts not being displayed in
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> they are AvenirLTStd-Heavy.otf,
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> AvenirLTStd-LightOblique.otf and
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> displayed in the font menu are AvenirLTStd-Roman.otf and
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> ("Roman" and "Light" are pretty traditional names).
> I've tried renaming the fonts to "Bold" and "italic",
etc., but Windows still
> sees the original names. I've tried opening the fonts in
Notepad and changing
> all references (for example, all "Heavy" to "bold"), but
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> (even if I add and remove a space) makes it unreadable
as a font (security
> issues, I think).
> One reason I think it's a naming issue, is I did try
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> and installed it, and Flash saw it as Roman, but it had
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> characteristic. This work-around doesn't work, however,
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> (and renaming it Roman2 doesn't work).
> Is there any solution for this? I need access to all of
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> family, as it's for a branded project that uses Avenir
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