Microsoft Word Font issues

Submitted by ireid on Tue, 2008-07-15 16:47.

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I thought I had this licked a few months ago but now the problem has gotten worse. Ever so often (and seemingly randomly) on some of our Macs Word 2004 won't start unless we click through a GAZILLION messages saying "The font "x" is corrupt and cannot be loaded" I had used font explorer's 'Clean caches" command and that seems to fix the problem but ONLY temporarily. I also downloaded Font Finagler and tried the same font cache cleaning and it only fixes it temporarily. Anyone knows how this can be fixed PERMANENTLY? And how This keeps happening?

I'll post a screen shot when I can replicate the problem.

thanks

Try to fix the fonts with

Submitted by mbennett2 on Tue, 2008-07-15 21:22.

Try to fix the fonts with font doctor. No link right now, sorry.

Edit: http://www.morrisonsoftdesign.com/with_fl/index-7.html

Either that or reload fresh copies of the fonts in question.

Make sure you have no user

Submitted by natobasso on Tue, 2008-07-15 22:01.

Make sure you have no user fonts in your system fonts folder, only the required ones (ten or so).

Use FontExplorer to clean your font system folder.

Remember to make sure FontBook isn't managing any of your fonts. Make sure the fonts in question are actually in the Word folder where they belong...

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Powerpoint is not a design application

Ok the problem's gotten worse!

Submitted by ireid on Wed, 2008-07-16 11:01.

Now Word and Excell won't launch!

ARGHHH. I'm running MS office 2004 on a OS X.4.11 G5 with 4 gb of RAM.

"Try not, Do! or do not, there is no try."
-Yoda

Did you try my

Submitted by natobasso on Wed, 2008-07-16 15:43.

Did you try my suggestions?
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Powerpoint is not a design application

Sigh

Submitted by ireid on Wed, 2008-07-16 15:50.

Yes. Now its just stuck on the Word Splash Screen. It seems to stick with 'Shared library Components" but after a force-quit and restart it just stick on the screen with no idea what's being loaded.

I THINK I may have to do a re-install. . .:P

"Try not, Do! or do not, there is no try."
-Yoda

If you've repaired

Submitted by natobasso on Wed, 2008-07-16 15:59.

If you've repaired permissions and restarted, I recommend booting in Safe Mode and doing a repair there:

1. Restart, hold command + shift + S till black screen appears.
2. Type "fsck -fy" to force a system repair (no quotes)
3. Type "reboot" when finished (no quotes)

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Powerpoint is not a design application