Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
I have over 100 fonts in word and they are slowing word up. How do I turn off
the excess fonts? This is a problem
Only 100? Should not be a problem unless you have a very slow Mac
without sufficient memory. And I mean a very slow Mac. I'm sort of OK
with 600 fonts on a 1GHz Powerbook with 769MB of memory. OK, everything
is slow compared to the Mac Pro next to it, but 600 fonts in Word is
not much slower than 22 fonts.
If you insist. Quit Word and all other Office programs, then use Font
Book to make an everyday collection. Turn the others off. Restart Word.
First time through it will be a bit of a slug. After that you will be
fine.
If not, perform all the font cache cleaning voodoo you will find
documented on the mac mvps site.
Most people's font sluggishness happens only at Word startup (and
shortly after in 2008 I believe).
My everyday collection has 22 fonts selected from 600+. I don't see
much difference in speed, so I leave all 600 and (mumble) on. Who knows
when I will need to write a ransom note? I don't use Word 2008, but
when I did, it was faster than 2004 to get over its font fussing at
startup, but it did sneakily keep working on 'em in the background for
a few more seconds.
That might have been fixed. I dunno. All versions of Word do funny
things with fonts at certain phases of the moon.
