Hi Carsten, Forgive me for being hard-nosed but it's time to take this to the Word newsgroup as I mentioned before. When you post there, give a brief recap of the problem and what you already tried. Either I or someone else will answer you there.
Beth On 5/24/05 9:55 AM, "Carsten Ortmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all - (maybe Beth R in paticular) > > For some weird reason my problem went away for a while, but now it's back, > and every time I delete the ~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office Font > Cache (11) it builds a new one, but I still get that annoying "Optimizing > Font Menu Performance" and then "This and that font is Corrupt and hsould be > removed" > > Should I simply remove the ones I can find, do you think? > > Thanks for ANY help on this > Carsten > >> From: Carsten Ortmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> >> Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 22:25:04 +0200 >> To: "Entourage:mac Talk" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: OT: Word problem after Tiger >> >> 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/> >> > -- 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/>
