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I need to reinstall all my fonts as a Office for Mac update corrupted my database of fonts by installing all the Office fonts into the font book

That giving me 2 of every font causing apps to crash


I think I got ride of the office fonts out of the font but not I see coorrupted and missing fonts I have only 64 fonts at one time and now I am at 158, I would like to replace all the fonts with the defult ones from Apple that should be there



Office for Mac forums(and the team) had no clue and have not answerd my forum post nearly a year later




How can I restore the fonts that should be there?

MacBook Pro Intel, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Aug 6, 2012 7:08 AM

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Aug 6, 2012 7:23 AM in response to Apple a day

A common enough occurrence with Office. But no, you do not need to reinstall all. Just need to visit FontBook's Edit menu, do a Look for Enabled Duplicates... and for each family that pops up as duplicated, do a Control-Click on its name and do a Resolve Duplicates.


Purging all MS fonts will only get you further grief when you try to use any of Office's apps and/or receive documents from other Office users.


FWIW, my font collection that dates back from 1993 when I got my first PowerBook, carries 344 fonts including all from about 5 Office iterations. All work, none are corrupted and there are no duplicates.

Aug 6, 2012 7:44 AM in response to Courcoul

I do need to reinstall all of them


I did a look for duplicates and it was a 99% of them had duplicates, the entire office for Mac fonts were placed into the font book


I don't have office for Mac on here any more (had a school agreement licence), and the dupliacte fonts were causing my apps to crash


A office for mac update placed the fonts in there, I am still geting font errors in the console messages

Aug 6, 2012 9:11 AM in response to Apple a day

Office didn't actually add anything to Font Book itself. It added a bunch of fonts to the /Library/Fonts/ folder. Font Book saw them and added the fonts to its list.


First, close Font Book.


Office created a folder named FontsDisabled in the /Library/ folder. You can delete that folder entirely. It also adds a bunch of older legacy TrueType fonts which conflict with the newer OpenType fonts. In the /Library/Microsoft/ folder, delete the following fonts. Note that they do not have a file extension.


Andale Mono

Arial Black

Arial Narrow

Arial Rounded Bold

Comic Sans MS

Georgia

Impact

Tahoma

Trebuchet MS


Launch Font Book. The conflicts should be resolved.

Sep 6, 2012 5:31 PM in response to baltwo

They all were vaild, and I don;t know which ones I have in the fontbook Apple OS X ones or Microsoft Offices ones


I have 158 fonts right now w/ OS X 10.7.4, can anyone else check and see what it should be, and how Do I reinstall the OS X ones?





Here is one of the font errors

Opera: ATS: Invalid FontObjectID (234) - only low 16 bits are being passed in.



When I had all the dupliactes Opera and others were crashing

I need to reinstall all my fonts as a Office for Mac update corrupted my database of fonts by installing all the Office fonts into the font book

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