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Mac Forum / Applications / Word / August 2007Removing fonts from WORD
I'd like to remove some fonts from my WORD menu. I've disabled them in Font Book, trashed the Office font cache, and restarted the computer. All 150+ fonts still appear in the WORD font menu. What am I missing? Thanks > I'd like to remove some fonts from my WORD menu. I've disabled them in > Font Book, trashed the Office font cache, and restarted the computer. > All 150+ fonts still appear in the WORD font menu. What am I missing? That is unexpected. Word respects my Font Book disabling on the next time Word is restarted. I have never needed to fool about with its cache to correct that. Nor reboot. Could you report whether TextEdit, say, respects the Font Book Settings? Are your fonts in ~/Library or /Library? If the latter, then what happens when you run Word from another user account on the same machine?  SignatureTo de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248 OK, checked it out and here is the scoop. Word has 210 fonts TextEdit has 187 fonts Library on the HD has 111 fonts Library in my user account has 177 fonts I set up a new account on the machine and the Word in that account appears to have 210 fonts. Does this help? Thanks, Peter > In article <1188249516.691881.214...@d55g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>, > [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > To de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ > PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248 > OK, checked it out and here is the scoop. > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Does this help? A little. You appear to have 288 fonts as well as the 32? fonts in System/Library/Fonts/ that you don't mention, assuming that you have no duplicates between /Library and ~/Library That looks like 320 in total But wait! You created a new user and she sees 210 fonts without any fonts at all in her ~/Library/Fonts? None of that makes sense. You can't be counting apples. Word's font menu is primitive. It lists every variation in a font family as a separate font. My Garamond Premiere Pro gets 35 lines in Word's font list. My Helvetica Neue takes another 51 lines. Thus 2 lines in Font Book is 86 in Word. Finder does list each of the OTF variants as a separate file, but other font families stay in a single file. So it ain't straightforward. Try disabling everything that Font Book will let you disable, restarting Word and then count the separate font families in Word's Font menu list. How does that compare with what you see in Font Book or by looking at the totals in Finder in each of the Font directories? SignatureTo de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248 Went into Font Book and disabled everything that I was able to (all except Geneva and Lucida Grande). Restarted Word and the font menu is still around 210 fonts. The list starts with Academy Engraved, goes to Zapfino, then GenevaCE to AppleMyngjo. List of fonts in both my top level and user level lists remains the same as before. > In article <1188590262.710003.314...@19g2000hsx.googlegroups.com>, > [quoted text clipped - 34 lines] > To de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ > PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248 > Went into Font Book and disabled everything that I was able to (all > except Geneva and Lucida Grande). OK. Just to be sure I wasn't talking rot, I did the same. Got the same two fonts left. > Restarted Word and the font menu is still around 210 fonts. The list > starts with Academy Engraved, goes to Zapfino, then GenevaCE to > AppleMyngjo. When I did that, Word had only the same two plus Central European for each and Cyrillic for Lucida Grande. A total of 5. I'm at a loss to advise further. Wild Guess Time: Networked system somewhere with fonts on it? Old Classic System still on your machine, with fonts in System Folder/Fonts/ ? I did try, but I can't reproduce what you are seeing, and I don't have a clue why. Sorry, I have rather wasted your time. SignatureTo de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248 Following up on your WAG, I disconnected from the network and tried again. Still go the full list in Word after disabling in Font Book. Went looking for other issues and found a font folder in the system folder that contains 32 fonts. What are these for? Also, it is possible that there are some system 9 files on this machine since I used Apples migration tool to upgrade from one laptop to another. Where would thes files now be hidden > In article <1188593794.811298.49...@22g2000hsm.googlegroups.com>, > [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > To de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ > PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248 > Following up on your WAG, I disconnected from the network and tried > again. Still go the full list in Word after disabling in Font Book. > > Went looking for other issues and found a font folder in the system > folder that contains 32 fonts. What are these for? Fonts of last resort for the OS to use when it wants to write a suicide note? You will discover they are almost impossible to delete without extreme geekery. Don't even think of trying to. > Also, it is possible that there are some system 9 files on this > machine since I used Apples migration tool to upgrade from one laptop > to another. Where would thes files now be hidden They'd be in /System Folder/Fonts Note the *Folder* !! Word will look in there, but I think Font Book does too, so it probably won't help. PS. If you do find out what is going wrong, please post back. I'm now well intrigued. Word's font handling never ceases to amaze me. SignatureTo de-mung my e-mail address:- fsnospam$elliott$$ PGP Fingerprint: 1A96 3CF7 637F 896B C810 E199 7E5C A9E4 8E59 E248 |
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