what fonts are required by office

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imclaudia

Hi , the tech guy at my comapny made a mess out of my fonts and now
wverytime I start Powerpoint it tells me a oriental looking font is
missing. It gives me that message 5 times leading me to believe he
removed 5 oriental fonts. i asked him to fix it and his answer was that
it was a Microsoft problem. Yikes! It worked fine before.

Can any of you help me on where to find the required fonts fro Office
2004 for the mac.

Thanks!
 
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JE McGimpsey

Office 2004 loads about 76 fonts on your machine, twice - once in your
user font folder, once in the Microsoft Office 2004:Office:Fonts folder.
Check the latter.
 
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JE McGimpsey

JE McGimpsey said:
Office 2004 loads about 76 fonts on your machine, twice - once in your
user font folder, once in the Microsoft Office 2004:Office:Fonts folder.
Check the latter.

I should add that all these fonts are not *required* by Office.
 
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Neill Massello

JE McGimpsey said:
I should add that all these fonts are not *required* by Office.

And a few of them are inlcuded as part of a standard OS X system and
will already be in /Library/Fonts.
 
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JE McGimpsey

And a few of them are inlcuded as part of a standard OS X system and
will already be in /Library/Fonts.

However, you should use the fonts shipped in Office, at least (IIRC)
Arial, TNR, PMincho, and, (I think) Trebuchet since these are more
complete Unicode fonts than those that ship with OS X.
 
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Neill Massello

JE McGimpsey said:
However, you should use the fonts shipped in Office, at least (IIRC)
Arial, TNR, PMincho, and, (I think) Trebuchet since these are more
complete Unicode fonts than those that ship with OS X.

Yup. Before I ditch duplicates, I check the version numbers. The easiest
way to do that is to open both folder windows side by side in list view
with just the name and version displayed.
 
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John Livingston

I have Office 2004 service pack 11 installed on a laptop running
10.3.7--on one partition, with Classic running on a separate partition
that haws a full installation of OS 9.2.2, including a number of Type 1
fonts. The OS9 partition and Type 1 ("screen" and "bitmap" instead of
TrueType)fonts are primarily used with Adobe PageMaker 7.

Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2004 have all been hanging up on launch, and
reporting --usually only one font at a time---that some of my Type1
fonts installed on the OS 9 side are corrupt and should be deleted.

My workaround would be:

1. Go into FontBook in OS X and "disable" most of these Type 1 fonts so
that Panther does not load them.

2. Wouldn't this mean that I would need to boot in OS 9 anytime I needed
to use PageMaker 7 with those Type 1 fonts?
 
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Neill Massello

John Livingston said:
I have Office 2004 service pack 11 installed on a laptop running
10.3.7--on one partition, with Classic running on a separate partition
that haws a full installation of OS 9.2.2, including a number of Type 1
fonts. The OS9 partition and Type 1 ("screen" and "bitmap" instead of
TrueType)fonts are primarily used with Adobe PageMaker 7.

Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2004 have all been hanging up on launch, and
reporting --usually only one font at a time---that some of my Type1
fonts installed on the OS 9 side are corrupt and should be deleted.

My workaround would be:

1. Go into FontBook in OS X and "disable" most of these Type 1 fonts so
that Panther does not load them.

2. Wouldn't this mean that I would need to boot in OS 9 anytime I needed
to use PageMaker 7 with those Type 1 fonts?

My last use of Classic predates Font Book; but my impression is that
using it to disable a font in OS X does *not* prevent a font in the
Classic system folder from being used by an OS 9 application running in
the Classic Environment. To check this, shut down Classic, disable the
problem fonts with Font Book, start up Classic, and see if any of
disabled fonts appear in PageMaker or other classic apps. I no longer
have a Classic system folder to test this with, so you'll have to try it
and tell me if it works.
 

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