Re: Word 2004 installed fonts options

From: Norman R. Nager, Ph.D. (nnager_at_vnoxsxpxaxmv.fullerton.edu)
Date: 05/27/04 

Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 14:28:55 -0700

Alas, before I tuned into Paul's points in this thread, I already had
trashed all the fonts Office 2004 installed in two different folders:
Applications/Office/Fonts and in user/~/Library/Fonts

I did so not because of the hard drive space, but primarily because of the
long time (and pain when one has tendonitis and carpal tunnel syndrome)
required to scroll and search for my favorite fonts in Entourage and Excel
(In Word, I can view my favorite five fonts in a customized toolbar I
created.)

€ 1. If I were to re-install all Office 2004 fonts, is there any way of
creating a customized favorite fonts toolbar in Entourage and Excel similar
to what I have in Word?

€2. If I were to re-install all Office 2004 fonts, would that create
problems in duplication of fonts the Operating System (now at 10.3.4) has
installed in Systems and Library?

€3. Can one go back in the installation process and selectively just
re-install fonts? How?

€4. Or should I consider the option of dragging them over from another hard
drive? (I duplicated my Panther partition to a backup drive after
installing Office 2004 but before I trashed the Office 2004 fonts in my
primary hard drive Applications/Office/Fonts and user/~/Library/Fonts
folders. )

Respectfully, Norm

On 5/25/04 8:17 PM, in article BCD95A5A.65CB3%berkowit@spoof_silcom.com,
"Paul Berkowitz" <berkowit@spoof_silcom.com> wrote:

> That would be rather unfortunate, I'm afraid. What with the change to
> Unicode in Word, lots of the Microsoft fonts have been upgraded. They have
> the same names as before, and as other fonts in your computer, but they're
> different versions. In particular the four Unicode fonts - Times New Roman,
> Trebuchet MS, Verdana and an Asian font - MS Mincho, I think - are
> completely different and mach bigger than before : they have all the Unicode
> glyphs. They will substitute for any fonts where such Unicode glyphs are
> needed. Dump them at your peril.
>
> Naturally Word needs fonts, and the correct place is in your user Fonts
> folder. It's best just to leave things be. modern computers have immense
> hard disks and the space taken up by the "clutter" of fonts is well worth
> it. I'm sure there's a way to get them to work with Suitcase too.
>
> --
> Paul Berkowitz
> MVP Entourage
> Entourage FAQ Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html>
> AppleScripts for Entourage: <http://macscripter.net/scriptbuilders/>
>
> Please "Reply To Newsgroup" to reply to this message. Emails will be
> ignored.
>
> PLEASE always state which version of Entourage you are using - **2004**, X
> or 2001. It's often impossible to answer your questions otherwise.
>
>
>> From: Beth Rosengard <bethrosengard@earthlink.net>
>> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.mac.office.word
>> Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 11:02:25 -0700
>> Subject: Re: Word 2004 installed fonts options
>>
>> Hi Mark,
>>
>> I can't tell you what the logic was behind the installation of fonts in the
>> user folder. But all you have to do is delete them if you don't want them.
>>
>> --
>> Beth Rosengard
>> Mac MVP
>>
>> Mac Word FAQ: <http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/WordMac/index.htm>
>> Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org>
>>
>>
>> On 5/24/04 10:46 PM, in article
>> 2004052501463660252%markgreen0045@hotmailcom, "Mark Green"
>> <mark_green0045@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Why does Word 2004 insist on installing fonts. Word X gave me the
>>> option at least, so why does 2004 not have customize options where I
>>> can choose not to have any fonts installed. I really do not wish to
>>> have my users font folder cluttered up with a bunch of fonts I don't
>>> need. I have Suitcase to manage all the fonts I want.
>>>
>>>

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