RE-SEND June 18 question on "List of fonts required to be enabledfor Office 2004?"

[Norman R. Nager, Ph.D.]

QUESTION

Where might I find a list of fonts that Office 2004 requires to be enabled?

BACKGROUND:

I used Tiger's Font Book to disable several Asian and other font families,
but avoided disabling any that Font Book dialogues said were needed for the
System.

Later, when I tried changing fonts within Entourage messages or Notes,
before any other fonts than the one displayed could show up, Microsoft
Report came on and it and Entourage went into spinning beachball mode. A
subsequent force-quit showed that both were "not responding."

When even a rebuild of the Entourage database failed to prevent the freezes
when clicking on a font, I realized that the earlier disabling of selected
font families was the causal factor. I re-enabled all disabled fonts as a
short-term fix and found that stopped the freezing.

Respectfully, Norm

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Fonts are a mystery to many of us....which is why you've had no answer.

Macworld magazine has a recent article on font troubleshooting that might
mention some precious fonts.
http://www.macworld.com/2005/05/secrets/julyworkingmac/index.php

There seems to be more information relative to Word, but since your problem
was Entourage, don't know if it will help. Entourage does seem to have a
lot of hard-coded fonts that can't be controlled.

Matt Neuburg's Take Control of Word ebook recommends keeping these fonts:
Times New Roman
MS Mincho
Verdana
Wingdings
Arial, Trebuchet
And has other very good information about controlling fonts in Word.
http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/word-1.html

See also these results of some extensive investigation:
http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/WhyFontsKeepLoading.htm
(hit refresh a few times in Safari, or use a different browser)

FWIW, I've disabled most of my Asian fonts without problems, I
think--including Mincho, apparently.

Daiya

 

[Priyanka Singhal [MSFT]]

Hi Norman ,
these are some of the fonts that should not be disabled :
PmingLiu
Simsun
MSPgothic
MSGothic
MSMincho
MS PMincho
Gulim
batang
Verdana
arial
Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro W3
Lucida Grande
Symbol
wingding
MT extra
times new roman

Thanks,
Priyanka