Word Continues to Open in a Font I don't want

[Suspekt31]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC

Can't seem to figure this one out. I downloaded a font a little over a week ago from the Dafont website for my graphic design program. Since that date, my Times New Roman font in Word opens in the downloaded font, yet the screen says its Times New Roman. Times New Roman seems to be the only font affected. I can choose from the drop down menu to set a new default font or I can highlight and select. It will save my preferences, but it only applies to that document only. I have to repeat the process for each document I have. Its a pain when I am downloading job applications from the Net. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling Office and this has not fixed the problem. Any insight from anyone?

 

[John McGhie]

Uninstalling and reinstalling never has any effect on a Mac, you should know
that

But "rebooting" does, and that's what I would try first. Shut down OS X
until the power goes off, count to 10, and bring it up again. This kind of
restart is a "cold boot" which runs the OS X housekeeping tasks that clean
up the system.

In OS X, the Mac stores a font table called a Cache for quick access. In
Microsoft Office, Word stores a font cache re-ordered to suit its way of
doing things.

OS X rebuilds the font cache at startup. Office checks the OS X Font cache
and rebuilds its own from that one if it has changed.

So a reboot magically fixes a lot of font issues. Neither font cache is on
the installation disks, so reinstalling never touches them.

Cheers

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC

Can't seem to figure this one out. I downloaded a font a little over a week
ago from the Dafont website for my graphic design program. Since that date, my
Times New Roman font in Word opens in the downloaded font, yet the screen says
its Times New Roman. Times New Roman seems to be the only font affected. I can
choose from the drop down menu to set a new default font or I can highlight
and select. It will save my preferences, but it only applies to that document
only. I have to repeat the process for each document I have. Its a pain when I
am downloading job applications from the Net. I have tried uninstalling and
reinstalling Office and this has not fixed the problem. Any insight from
anyone?

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[Tim Murray]

Any insight from anyone?

There is an excellent and free little font cache cleaner at
http://www.jamapi.com/pr/fn/
I find it absolutely indispensable.