Mac Forum / Applications / Word / October 2005

You *can* throw them, but it might not be a great idea.
Times New Roman and Arial, Microsoft style, are your best insurance
against the dark side appearing to corrupt the documents you send them.
The Microsoft variants of these fonts -and let's face it (pun intended)
they *are* universally known as Microsoft fonts - have an incredibly
large number of Unicode glyphs, and there is a good chance they match
over there --->

Just because two fonts have the same name doesn't mean they are the
same font. That would be too easy.

I decided to lie back and think of England. I hid all the old fonts of
the same name and stuck with what 2004 did to me. On the bright side,
it would have swept away all the TNR and Arial from earlier versions of
Word that do not support Unicode, so we are no worse off.

Look, you wouldn't have used TNR or Arial in anything you wanted to
sign your name to, so keep 'em as a way of talking down to the
typographically deprived.

(I still have not worked out a neat way to bring up all the swash
variants in OTF fonts in Word other than clicking away at the character
palette, but then I guess that can wait till I have to do another
tongue-in-cheek wedding invitation)

Just don't throw away any Japanese fonts (as I foolishly did once).
About 4 of them are needed for PowerPoint. Word, apparently, does not
care. I would trim them only if you don't have enough space on the
computer: some unexpected things may happen.
Alex