WordFonts do not work properly on Newtork Accounts

[MacFan]

I am using Word 2008 and have my home account on a network. Everything
appears normal except the fonts are all messed up. When you select a
specific font another font is substituted. Also the fonts do not show
up as they appear (Yes the preference is set). Is there anyway to
correct this or am I doomed to go local???We will be converting may
units to 2008 and this is a MAJOR problem.

Any assistance will be most helpful.

Ron

 

[John McGhie]

I assume you have done a cold boot? (I.e. Powered down the computer and
restarted).

A cold boot rebuilds the font caches, and it should clear this issue.

I wouldn't roll out Office 2008 with network homes yet. There are some
major bugs with file locking that have yet to be resolved.

I strongly suggest that if you have not rolled out yet, you should wait for
Service Pack 2 before deploying to an environment using network home
directories.

I would also ensure that you leave Office 2004 installed when you do roll
out: your users will need it.

Cheers

I am using Word 2008 and have my home account on a network. Everything
appears normal except the fonts are all messed up. When you select a
specific font another font is substituted. Also the fonts do not show
up as they appear (Yes the preference is set). Is there anyway to
correct this or am I doomed to go local???We will be converting may
units to 2008 and this is a MAJOR problem.

Any assistance will be most helpful.

Ron

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[MacFan]

Thank you for the information. We were going to install 08 this
summer. Any idea when service pack 2 might be out? This is a critical
issue to us since all of our PC's and Macs use network accounts.

A cold boot does not resolve the issue. It appears that Word, and
Powerpoint, are reading the fonts form the wrong location. Not exactly
sure.

ROn

 

[John McGhie]

Truthfully, I have no idea when SP 2 will appear. If I were to guess, I
would pick November/December...

If you can get some detailed diagnostics on the problems, I can put these in
to the developers. I know they are currently working on some networking
problems.

Cheers

Thank you for the information. We were going to install 08 this
summer. Any idea when service pack 2 might be out? This is a critical
issue to us since all of our PC's and Macs use network accounts.

A cold boot does not resolve the issue. It appears that Word, and
Powerpoint, are reading the fonts form the wrong location. Not exactly
sure.

ROn

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[MacFan]

I would be more then happy to work along with them. The only issue
that I have run across so far is the font problem. Fonts do not show
up WYSIWYG font and styles menu. When you select a font it substitutes
another font. And the other font collection is missing from the top of
the menu.

The old problem whereby you can not save a .doc document to the network
account appears to be solved in this version. (Prior versions required
you to save a file in rtf format or you would get a permission error
message.)

ROn

 

[John McGhie]

Hi: Sorry, I can't do much for you unless you provide detailed diagnostic
information and a valid email address.

If you want to email me privately, that's fine. Send in plain text and do
not include attachments or formatting, or the Spam filter will dump it

Cheers

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