Re: Getting rid of foreign language fonts

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If you have Leopard, have you tried deactivating the fonts in the
FontBook? That may be possible, even though you cannot delete them.

Cheers
Magnus

On Jan 21, 3:14 pm, Talie...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I can't figure out how to stop all the foreign language fonts from showing up at the bottom of my Office font menus. I've tried to delete them from everywhere: System > Library > Fonts, User > Library > Fonts, etc., but they persist. I don't want these files using any of my system resources, but I can't get rid of them.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
T.
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