Font list problems since upgrade to Office 2008

[lmstransk]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Power PC We have upgraded our computers from Office 04. The WYSIWYG font list worked perfectly in 04 in all applications...namely Word.

Once we made the upgrade to 08, a good chunk of my fonts have disappeared. I have re-located the fonts to the 'Microsoft' folder within the fonts foler, so Word can now 'find' the font...but I have to manually type the name of the font into the list. It won't show up on the list as a choice on its own.

I have tried deleting the font cache...but it didn't work. Any other ideas out there? I'd really appreciate any help you might have to offer.

Thanks!!

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

We have upgraded our computers from Office 04. The WYSIWYG font list
worked perfectly in 04 in all applications...namely Word. <br><br>Once
we made the upgrade to 08, a good chunk of my fonts have disappeared. I
have re-located the fonts to the 'Microsoft' folder within the fonts
foler, so Word can now 'find' the font...

Bad idea... It makes a lot of things more complicated actually
(including updates if MS ever feels the need to update their fonts in
one of the updates).

The system can use fonts in subfolders of standard location without any
problem.

Here is what you should have done:
- use Font Book to scan your drive for corrupted and duplicate fonts
- don't let Font Book fix the issues for you (it sucks at it). Instead,
manually locate the fonts in the Finder. Deactivate the corrupted ones
(drag them in another non standard location) and the oldest version of
the duplicate ones.
- delete the system, user and application (including Office) font cache
with Onyx (free) and reboot immediately.

The first time you launch Word, it will properly recreate the font
cache.


Corentin