First of all try this. Instead of using the font menu on the tool bar click on the top main menu on 'format' and then on 'font' this will give you a more expanded list of fonts and you might see the astro font in there. The Font Menu on the toolbar will show nonsense astro glyph characters instead of a readable name.

If you still don't see the font it is because of a bug in recent versions of word newer than word 97 like say Word 2000. Word has a repair mode that will fix this problem. go to the top main menu of word to 'help' and then click on 'detect and repair' and that might fix any problems with the way that Word is set up. There might be a little double downward arrow that you have to click on first to make the 'detect and repair' part of the help menu appear.

After that the most common reason why fonts don't show up on the list in Microsoft Word has to do with printers. In the latest and greatest versions of MS Word it will only show you the fonts that work with your printer and not all the fonts on your system. This was something they did to make word start up faster. If you are using Word on a laptop that never had a printer installed before that can be a problem. You will need to hook it up to a printer and install the printer just to get Word to work properly and show you all the fonts. You don't need to have the printer attached all the time, it just has to have been installed at some point.

It all hinges on whichever printer you have selected as default, so if you have a 'phony' printer selected as your default printer that can also cause a problem too. By phony printer I mean a fax machine driver or an adobe pdf document generator or something like that.

So it might be a good idea to go into your printers and see which one is default, and maybe change it to another one if you have multiple choices. It might work just to change the printer to someting else and then change it back again.  You do that by clicking on the start button and then selecting 'control panel' and then select 'printers' from that list. The default printer will be the one that has a checkmark next to it. You can right click on the various different printers and then click on 'Set as default printer' on the popup menu to make that printer the new default.

There's some more information about that in these two links below.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;q276515
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/NoFonts.htm