Disable Fonts still showing up in Word 11.2.1

[johnkchavez]

OS 10.4.3/iMac 65/2G Ram/Office 2004 11.2.1

Hi Folks,

I have 667 fonts loaded but only 82 active managing with Font Book.
Why does Word show all the fonts? It maybe showing the 82 active fonts
but all of the
family (LIgth, Bold, Italic etc. etc. etc. etc.). It's awful. Please
advise.

Thank you,

John Chavez
Los Angeles, CA

 

[Elliott Roper]

OS 10.4.3/iMac 65/2G Ram/Office 2004 11.2.1

Hi Folks,

I have 667 fonts loaded but only 82 active managing with Font Book.
Why does Word show all the fonts? It maybe showing the 82 active fonts
but all of the
family (LIgth, Bold, Italic etc. etc. etc. etc.). It's awful. Please
advise.

The latter is what I see. I see only my enabled fonts, but every
member of each family has a line of its own. e.g. Warnock Pro has 32
bleedin' entries.

Since I almost never change fonts directly (it's all in my styles) I
can live with it.

Here's a tip you probably already know:

Turn off WYSIWYG font list in preferneces. Then, once the font list is
displayed you can type the name of the font and it will go straight
there.
Well almost. Anything with a space in the name fails, since space
accepts your selection. So if you want Warnock Pro SmBd Ital Subhead,
you are better off typing wb and arrowing up a little.

I don't know whether suitcase or any of the 3rd party font managers
support Word. All I know is they are too expensive and they used to
wreck my old Macs back in the days before OS X.

 

[Elliott Roper]

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I don't know whether suitcase or any of the 3rd party font managers
support Word. All I know is they are too expensive and they used to
wreck my old Macs back in the days before OS X.

I have YouControl:Fonts installed--not a font manager, just a font menu
utility that creates an additional OS-wide font menu--and it works fine to
change fonts within Word and picks up category submenus (e.g., Fun Fonts,
Cursive Fonts) that I created in the Font Book. I think that font menu apps
do less than font management utilities and are therefore less likely to
cause problems (though the general YouControl gives me some small glitches,
the Fonts thing has not been problematic at all). There are probably other
font menus that could be installed, and they also tend to be cheaper than
font management apps. (YouControl:Fonts seems awfully high at $30, but they
seem to run sales all the time)

Kewl. I might break the habit of a lifetime.

Then I was able to re-enable Warnock Pro.

Heh! It's a lovely font for when you need something a little more beefy
than Garamond.