Thanks a lot. You've been very helpful :-) It works now Carsten
> From: Beth Rosengard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 23:15:07 -0700 > To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: OT: Word problem after Tiger > > Hi Carsten, > > No, it won't hurt anything if you trashed the wrong prefs file. Prefs files > are always recreated (after being trashed) when the application they are > associated with is launched again. However ... > > Do you intentionally have both Office X and Office 2004 on your machine? If > there's no reason for X to be there any more, you should get rid of it. Why > keep unnecessary files around when there's always the chance that they could > corrupt or cause conflicts (like the old Font Cache apparently did). So if > you don't need Office X any more, use the Remove Office tool to get rid of > it. It will allow you to choose which installation(s) of Office you want to > remove. > > The Remove Office tool is located in ~/Applications/Microsoft Office > 2004/Additional Tools. When you're finished with the removal, use Disk > Utility to Repair Permissions (always a good thing to do after installing or > removing software). > > HTH. > > Beth > > > > On 5/18/05 10:19 PM, "Carsten Ortmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Now this is a bit strange, because I do have 2004. And now it occurs to me, >> that I might have removed the wrong file. I went to >> Root/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/ and removed the file I could find, but >> now I see that I do have the (11) in Home/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/ >> >> I emptied the trash after trashing the font cache, so now the (10)'s gone >> from the root-prefs. Should I worry? (sorry to be so elaborate about this >> OT-thing, I just want to make sure I'm reasonably OK) I can't really fgure >> out the difference between those preferences folders. >> >> Thanks for your time and knowledge >> Carsten >> >> >>> From: Beth Rosengard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> >>> Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 15:28:48 -0700 >>> To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> >>> Subject: Re: OT: Word problem after Tiger >>> >>> That means you have Office X (10), not 2004 (11). Shoulda told us that in >>> the first place :-). >>> >>> Beth >>> >>> >>> On 5/18/05 2:53 PM, "Carsten Ortmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Beth, >>>> >>>> Thanks a lot. It seems that did it - although my cache has (10) instead of >>>> your suggested (11). I have no idea what that means. >>>> >>>> I still have to check it on a few documents, but for now, it looks ok. >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> Carsten >>>> >>>> >>>>> From: Beth Rosengard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> >>>>> Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 09:26:38 -0700 >>>>> To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> >>>>> Subject: Re: OT: Word problem after Tiger >>>>> >>>>> Hi Carsten, >>>>> >>>>> Try trashing your Font Cache (with Word quit): >>>>> ~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office Font Cache (11). When you relaunch >>>>> Word, the cache will be rebuilt. >>>>> >>>>> If that doesn't do it, please post to the microsoft.public.mac.office.word >>>>> newsgroup. There are a couple of similar threads there. You probably >>>>> already know how to access the newsgroups but in case not, see here: >>>>> <http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/AccessNewsgroups.htm> >>>>> (If using Safari, hit Refresh once or twice; better yet, use another >>>>> browser.) >>>>> >>>>> Beth >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 5/16/05 11:46 AM, "Carsten Ortmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I'm having a problem with MS Word after installing Tiger. Sometimes when >>>>>> I >>>>>> try to open Word it'll say it's Optimizin Font Menu Performance and then >>>>>> say >>>>>> Font "****" is corrupt and should be removed. It starts in the v's and >>>>>> w's >>>>>> (Verdana, Webdings etc.) and then changes to font names made up of weird >>>>>> symbols. >>>>>> >>>>>> Does anybody know what might be causing this? >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks >>>>>> Carsten >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> To unsubscribe: >>>>> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> archives: >>>>> <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> >>>>> old-archive: >>>>> <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> To unsubscribe: >>> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> archives: >>> <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> >>> old-archive: >>> <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> >>> >> > > > -- > To unsubscribe: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > archives: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> > old-archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
