Problem: Viewing Fonts in Illustrator

In InDesign (CS2 or CS3) you have a written line in front of you. (Three or four words...) You select it by clicking once on it with your SELECTION TOOL. Then you click once on your TYPE TOOL and then ONCE in your font area, (Caracter Formatting Controls), which appears in the top left corner of your screen.
Now you click several times on your DOWN arrow and the font changes according to the font you select.
I have seen this done in Illustrator, but cantt remember how it was done.
Is anyone out there who knows how to do this in Illustrator (CS2 or CS3 (in Mac or PC))? Then, please explain this to me and others, cause this is VERY useful, when you are choosing fonts. Just see how this works in InDesign if you have not done this before.

You have a bad font somewhere inbetween that messes up the font handling. Remove any suspicious fonts you recently added and do not permanently need (e.g. free fonts that may technically suffer some issues like open contours etc.) and delete your AdbeFnt.list files so they get rebuilt next time you start an Adobe app.
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