Font Compatibility Issues

[Keetara Coleman]

Hello,

I've had Office for Mac: 2008 for a while now, but I tend not to use it
because it is so clumsy compared to the last version. However, I have
recently discovered a bit of an issue with a bunch of my fonts in Word 2008.
I have over 500 true type fonts on my Mac (they are in the correct Fonts
library). When I go to change the font I go up to the font pull down to
change the font. All of the fonts show up correctly in the WYSIWYG pull
down, but Word does not change the font to the one I have asked for. It
seems to be changing them to some other basic font.

So, I pull up Font Book to take a look at the fonts to see if something has
gotten corrupted. I even re-downloaded a few just for good measure. All
looks good until I see the section on Office Compatible Fonts. Out of my
over 500 fonts it tells me that ONLY 78 are compatible with MS Office for Mac
2008.

These fonts were all compatible with the last version of Office, so why
aren't they now? And how do I get them to work with the current version?

Thank you.

 

[Michel Bintener]

Hi Keetara,

I've had Office for Mac: 2008 for a while now, but I tend not to use it
because it is so clumsy compared to the last version. However, I have
recently discovered a bit of an issue with a bunch of my fonts in Word 2008.
I have over 500 true type fonts on my Mac (they are in the correct Fonts
library). When I go to change the font I go up to the font pull down to
change the font. All of the fonts show up correctly in the WYSIWYG pull
down, but Word does not change the font to the one I have asked for. It
seems to be changing them to some other basic font.

Could it be that the text you are selecting contains symbols or scripts that
are not available in the font you are trying to apply? If not, it might be a
good idea to clean the font caches on your hard disk.

So, I pull up Font Book to take a look at the fonts to see if something has
gotten corrupted. I even re-downloaded a few just for good measure. All
looks good until I see the section on Office Compatible Fonts. Out of my
over 500 fonts it tells me that ONLY 78 are compatible with MS Office for Mac
2008.

These fonts were all compatible with the last version of Office, so why
aren't they now? And how do I get them to work with the current version?

Don't worry, Font Book has a group called " *Windows* Office Compatible". As
the name indicates, the 78 fonts in this group are also available on Windows
PCs running Microsoft Office, so if you need your documents to be
cross-platform, it is best to choose one of the fonts listed in this group.

*All* the fonts displayed in Font Book are compatible with Office for Mac;
if the system recognises the font, then applications like Word and
PowerPoint will do so as well.