in 10.6 SL, Word lists all fonts, even disabled fonts

[Sam]

Just preformed a clean install of 10.6 Snow Leopard, and now that I've
installed office it takes forever to start. I suspect that this has
something to do with my fonts, as though I've disabled nearly all of them in
FontBook, Word insists on listing every single one. Why is Word ignoring my
disabled fonts and how can I fix this?

 

[Diane Ross]

Just preformed a clean install of 10.6 Snow Leopard, and now that I've
installed office it takes forever to start. I suspect that this has
something to do with my fonts, as though I've disabled nearly all of them in
FontBook, Word insists on listing every single one. Why is Word ignoring my
disabled fonts and how can I fix this?

I would recommend that you delete the extra fonts instead of disable. Use
the font book to show the duplicates. Then in a Finder window, go to the
/Library/Fonts/Microsoft folder and delete the dupes there. The new ones
installed by Snow Leopard are newer versions.

I would also recommend that you delete font caches. There are a couple of
applications out now that are Snow Leopard ready to help deleting caches.

Snow Leopard Cache Cleaner

<http://www.northernsoftworks.com/snowleopardcachecleaner.html>

Font Finagler
<http://homepage.mac.com/mdouma46/fontfinagler/>

For good measure, reboot using Safe Boot. Hold down the Shift key when
booting up. This will flush some caches and do some extra cleanup. After it
completes, reboot again normally.

If the fonts still show up, then it's a .plist file that's corrupted. Not
sure which one to recommend deleting.