The 'Bangla MN' Font is almost as good and the only font Excel recognizes and provides. Same applies for the Bengali Font Solaiman Lipi, which is the best rendered and original Bengali Font I found, named In Excel the font never showed up in any list despite my trials above. ITF fonts are used by clients ranging from tech giants like Apple. The only devanagari font that has worked so far is the adobe devanagari sangam, which, unfortunately, is quite a revolting rendering of this beautiful script I'm afraid - I had to deactivate it so that my browsers and other apps use the Devanagari MT instead. Text set in the Devanagari script sits nicely alongside the Latin lowercase, too. dragged the fonts to the Microsoft list in fontbook placing them in different font folders on the mac (including the 'microsoft' font folder) Trademark notice: Adobe is either a registered trademark or a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or other countries. I have tried the following steps so far, to no avail: I am on OSX 10.8.5, Office 2011 for Mac and have had compatibility issues in previous versions of office but got all fonts working in the end. To be available, mainly in Excel as for the complex Ligatures of this Indian script have never worked in Word anyway. I am hoping to find answers here after having combed through several threads already…