Gimp shows no button to select a different font in the text editing tool:

Everything I saw in tutorials has a little button you click to choose the font style, but I do not see one.

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That looks like the pop-up quick toolbar that appears over the selected area. There should be a "Tool Options" tab in one of the floating toolboxes (mine is on the bottom-left side of the screen by default) that has additional options when the Text tool is selected. If it's not there you can add it to a toolbox through the little left-pointing triangle on the tab bar.

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In this on-canvas dialog, you choose a font by typing the first (few) letters of its name (in the entry that displays 'Sans' in the screenshot). Then, a selection of matching fonts pops up.

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Click on the square box (that looks nothing like a button but actually is) next to the Font field. That will bring up all of the fonts you have stored on your computer.

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