removing fonts from dropdown list in Word 2008

[polly50]

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel When you click on Fonts in Word, you get a very long list of fonts, most of which I never use and would therefore like to remove.

How do I do that in Word 2008? I could do that in Word 2004!

I have already disabled them in Font Book.

Thank you.

 

[John McGhie]

If you "never use" them, why have them on your system? Keeping fonts loaded
that you do not intend to use simply wastes memory and slows your whole
system down.

If you remove the fonts from the system, they will disappear from Word also.

The FontBook Application controls the selection of fonts presented to the
operating system. Microsoft Office retains its own font cache (it shouldn't
do, but that's the way they designed it...)

To make Microsoft Office refresh its list of fonts from the system, shut the
computer down, turn the power off, wait a few seconds, then restart. OS X
will then rebuilt its font list, and Office will rebuild its own font list
from the system one.

But why are you looking in the font list anyway? You do not need to.

Define the formatting for the various kinds of paragraphs you create as Word
Styles. A Style is a collection of formatting to which we give a name so we
can re-use it in the future.

If you look in the list of styles, you will find that almost all the styles
you will ever need are already built in: you simply set the formatting to
your taste. Assigning the fonts you want to use as you do that.

Then you can apply the formatting you want with a single click. In fact, if
you set your styles up properly, Word will apply some of them automatically
for you. And you will never need to look at the font list again: because
you know that if the style is right, the font is right, no need to check.

Hope this helps

Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) Processor: Intel When
you click on Fonts in Word, you get a very long list of fonts, most of which I
never use and would therefore like to remove.

How do I do that in Word 2008? I could do that in Word 2004!

I have already disabled them in Font Book.

Thank you.

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[CyberTaz]

Disabling fonts in Font Book doesn't necessarily make them unavailable to
all apps... You have to actually Remove them [File menu].

To remove fonts manually you need to know which folder they are installed
in. There are several used by OS X & it depends on installation as to which
ones are used for the fonts being installed. Most of what you want to remove
should be located in: HD/Library/Fonts which also contains the Microsoft
font folder. There may also be fonts in: User/Library/Fonts for individual
User Accounts.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac