Office 2004 -- how to force the fonts to reinstall?

[Steve Maser]

Hi all...

Google is not my friend on this one today...

Short of doing a full uninstall of Office 2004...

Does anybody know how you can force Office 2004 to reinstall the
fonts that automatically get installed on a first-run setup?

Delete some specific preference file? Delete some specific font
file? Run some hidden application in the Office 2004 folder?

Thanks!

- Steve

 

[Elliott Roper]

Hi all...

Google is not my friend on this one today...

Short of doing a full uninstall of Office 2004...

Does anybody know how you can force Office 2004 to reinstall the
fonts that automatically get installed on a first-run setup?

Delete some specific preference file? Delete some specific font
file? Run some hidden application in the Office 2004 folder?

Are they not all sitting in /Applications/Microsoft Office
2004/Office/Fonts ?
The first run simply grabs them out of there and scribbles all over your
/Library/Fonts or ~/Library/Fonts with copies thereof. Whichever of the
two you *don't* want 'em in, whichever that is.
So you should be able to drag 'em to whichever of those two takes your
fancy.
Expect Font Book to cry crocodile tears and complain about duplicates.
Microsoft are incredibly cavalier in the way they scatter Redmond floss
all over your machine. If you are fussy about such things and you
previously had Office v.X installed, then you should choose the larger
duplicate. 2004 has Unicode fonts, v.X doesn't, but that does not stop
MS putting earlier version numbers and earlier file date on Unicode
fonts of the same name. It is character building.

 

[Michel Bintener]

Hi Steve,

all the fonts you need can be found in Applications/Microsoft Office
2004/Office/Fonts. You'll just need to drag them all into Font Book, or copy
them into either ~/Library/Fonts (for your user account only) or Macintosh
HD/Library/Fonts (for any user).

Hope this helps,
Michel

Hi all...

Google is not my friend on this one today...

Short of doing a full uninstall of Office 2004...

Does anybody know how you can force Office 2004 to reinstall the
fonts that automatically get installed on a first-run setup?

Delete some specific preference file? Delete some specific font
file? Run some hidden application in the Office 2004 folder?

Thanks!

- Steve

--
Michel Bintener
Microsoft MVP
Office:Mac (Entourage & Word)

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[Steve Maser]

Hi Steve,

all the fonts you need can be found in Applications/Microsoft Office
2004/Office/Fonts. You'll just need to drag them all into Font Book, or copy
them into either ~/Library/Fonts (for your user account only) or Macintosh
HD/Library/Fonts (for any user).

Hope this helps,
Michel

That is certainly an option (thanks!)

However, there must be some trigger that the application sees when
first run to notice that those fonts aren't in ~/Library/Fonts.

That's what I was wondering what the trigger is. Is it the *absence*
of one font? Or the absence/presence of a specific Preference file?

That's what I'm looking to figure out...

- Steve

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

That is certainly an option (thanks!)

However, there must be some trigger that the application sees when
first run to notice that those fonts aren't in ~/Library/Fonts.

That's what I was wondering what the trigger is. Is it the *absence*
of one font? Or the absence/presence of a specific Preference file?

That's what I'm looking to figure out...

See if the long discussion here helps--I didn't re-read it, so it may
not, but there's an accumulation of good information there.
http://word.mvps.org/Mac/FontsKeepLoading.html

Daiya

 

[Steve Maser]

See if the long discussion here helps--I didn't re-read it, so it may
not, but there's an accumulation of good information there.
http://word.mvps.org/Mac/FontsKeepLoading.html

Daiya

That was one of the things I did find in Google, but removing that one
font from my ~/Library/Fonts folder didn't force a reinstall of the
fonts like the author implies...

- Steve