On 01/01/2010, at 5:07 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: > > I am plagued with a huge list of unwanted fonts in Word/Office2008. As far > as I can see, they are in Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Office/Type > Libraries but are inaccessible. Is there any way to edit them, or just > switch the whole lot off. I am loath to just Trash the lot. > Severin Crisp
Hi Severin, Without knowing if you are using Leopard or Snow Leopard, & if you upgraded from Office 2004 to 2008. I'll include some information below as it might help you. Office 2008, has a subfolder of Microsoft fonts in /Library/Fonts folder. And, if you had 2004 and upgraded to 2008, you’ll have both font collections, with a lot of duplicate fonts. In addition, each version provides duplicates of Leopard-supplied fonts. (Microsoft Office 2004, had a collection of Microsoft fonts in the main level of your User Fonts folder) Office 2008 also does two other special things when it installs its fonts: Font Book collection: It creates a special collection inside Font Book that includes all its fonts. Since Word 2008’s Font menu provides a special submenu for Font Book collections, this makes it easier to get to the Microsoft fonts when you have a long Font menu. Upgrade issue: If you’ve upgraded from Office 2004, the 2008 installation moves some 2004 fonts from the User Fonts folder to a Fonts Disabled folder. It seems to move the fonts that have been updated since the 2004 release, yet ignore most of the duplicates provide by both packages. If you’ve upgraded to Office 2008, the first thing you should do is trash all the 2004 fonts, which means you must identify them inside your User Fonts folder, where they were installed when you ran Office 2004. Office 2008 moves some redundant and/or outdated fonts to ~/Library/Disabled Fonts during installation. Drag that folder to the Trash. If you still have this folder: The fonts in /Applications/Microsoft Office2004/Office/Fonts—the source for the ones installed into your User Fonts folder—are no longer needed, so you can free up some 85 MB of space by trashing it. Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>