Word and Fonts

[off.world]

I use Word as part of Office 2004 for Mac (single user). Each time I
try and open Word to create a new document or open as existing one, I
get a message saying 'Optimising font menu', during which time the
dreaded coloured wheel spins and I have to wait ages before I can do
anything. Any ideas please ?

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

I use Word as part of Office 2004 for Mac (single user). Each time I
try and open Word to create a new document or open as existing one, I
get a message saying 'Optimising font menu', during which time the
dreaded coloured wheel spins and I have to wait ages before I can do
anything. Any ideas please ?

Every time you activate or deactivate fonts, Word has to rebuild the
font cache. If you use an application like SuitCase for instance, that
usually happens quite often. The only way out is to make sure you always
launch Word with the same font set active :-\


Corentin

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

I use Word as part of Office 2004 for Mac (single user). Each time I

Every time you activate or deactivate fonts, Word has to rebuild the
font cache. If you use an application like SuitCase for instance, that
usually happens quite often. The only way out is to make sure you always
launch Word with the same font set active :-\

I was thinking the OP's problem was simpler than that. Sounds like this is
only happening on launch. Which suggests (maybe) that Word is choking on
one of your fonts, but eventually getting through it. Or maybe suggests that
you have a ton of fonts. How many fonts do you have?

Everyone, by the way, gets the "Optimizing font menu" message on the blue
splash screen, but usually it doesn't take "ages." Maybe you have a really
slow computer so this takes a long time. How long is "ages"? How much RAM
in the computer?

You might try the fixes listed on this page under Font Problems:
http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/DamagedPrefs.htm
(hit refresh a few times in Safari, or use a different browser)

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

I was thinking the OP's problem was simpler than that. Sounds like this is
only happening on launch. Which suggests (maybe) that Word is choking on
one of your fonts, but eventually getting through it. Or maybe suggests that
you have a ton of fonts. How many fonts do you have?

It's quite a possibliity.

Everyone, by the way, gets the "Optimizing font menu" message on the blue
splash screen, but usually it doesn't take "ages." Maybe you have a really
slow computer so this takes a long time. How long is "ages"? How much RAM
in the computer?

The number of font can also induce this slow scan process (which would
be consisten with using an app like SuitCase to manage these numerous
fonts ;-) ).

Corentin

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

It could also help to disable unneeded and duplicate fonts. Learn to use
Font Book and use its "Resolve Duplicates" to do the latter.

Font Book is some kind of Suitcase-lite If you have Suitcase, you
don't really need to use FontBook to hunt and disable duplicate fonts
;-)))

Corentin