Viewing Text In Illustrator and Photoshop

I was typing something up the other night in Microsoft Word and when I went to go pick a font the menu came down and it displayed a picture of what the fonts looked like.

My question is, is there a mod or some sort of an update for Illustrator 10 or Photoshop 7 where I can see what the type looks like when deciding what font to use? I just thought that would be a neat feature to have.

The best solution in PS is to highlight the text, then highlight the selection in the font drop down menu then use the up and down arrow keys to scroll through the fonts.

or go to download.com and get XSeeFont or something like that so u can preview all your fonts at the same time.

I couldn't find that one but I downloaded Meracl FontMap 2.0. It shows me all my type and it allows me to test it out.

Thanks for the info guys.