Word 2004 installed fonts options

[Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP]]

€3. Can one go back in the installation process and selectively just
re-install fonts? How?

The fonts are all in /Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office/Fonts
You can get which ever font you want from there and copy it to
~/Library/Fonts.


Corentin

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur [MVP]]

I don't know this for certain, but I believe that Office only uses the fonts
in its own Office folder for "stocking" your user and Library fonts folders.

These fonts are not active. The only (regular) way to get them active is to
move them to ~/Library/Fonts (which is what Office attempts to do when you
install the app).

I haven't tested removing all of the latter to see what happens next.

Nothing.... unless the active copies get corrupted or went missing, in which
case I suspect Office will try reinstalling the fonts from there.

As far
as I was aware, when Word tells you it's "optimizing fonts" on First Run,
it's actually making copies of the fonts in its own Office/Fonts and moving
the copies to ~/Library/Fonts and/or /Library/Fonts.

It does more than that. It also creates the font cache that includes cache
for the other fonts that are active in your system.


Corentin

 

[Beth Rosengard]

One last clarification/correction (of myself):

The Microsoft Office fonts are installed in the Local fonts folder and in
the User fonts folder, not the System font folder.

The Microsoft Office fonts are installed in the Microsoft Office/Fonts
folder *not* in the Local fonts folder (/Library/Fonts). During the Office
2004 installation process, these fonts are additionally copied to the User
fonts folder (~/Library/Fonts). If you want them in the Local fonts folder
instead, you can copy them there from the Office/Fonts folder and delete
them from the User fonts folder.

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[John McGhie]

Hi Mark:

So then If Word Installs these fonts in HD/Applications/Microsoft
Office 2004/Office/Fonts as well as the the users font folder and the
systems font folder then I should be able to remove the fonts from the
user folder as well as the systems and Word can still access them from
its own program folder.

As Elliott suggested, test this carefully before you do. My understanding
is that the copy in the Office folder is a backup, and Word will "use" only
the copies in the user or system folders.

Some of
these fonts are still .ttf Why arn't they .otf ?

Because they ran into problems getting the required macros to work in the
OTF version. As Elliott says, coding up a full Unicode version of an OTF
font is not a trivial exercise. There's a limit to how much you can spend.
Personally, I consider the price I paid for MMS Office to be high enough as
it is, I wouldn't want it to be any higher .

Cheers

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