Office for Mac 2011 keeps crashing
My machine: A Mac Mini (late 2012)
My OS: Yosemite 10.10.3
My app: Office for Mac 2011 with latest update 14.5.2
I work as a freelance advertising copywriter and logo designer. For the writing portion of my job, I really need Word as it is what ALL of my clients use and also it allows them to track changes (and me to accept or decline them). Otherwise I would happily use Google docs or Pages.
I also have been doing some logo design to add another service to my repertoire. For this I use Adobe Illustrator, and in the process I've downloaded several fonts which I keep in Font Book. In the past two weeks, Microsoft Office products have all been crashing right when I try to open them. I noticed that Word freezes up right when it says it is "Optimizing font menu performance."
I have a sneaking suspicion that something with the fonts is screwing with Office. Does anyone else have this problem or know of a solution?
Previously attempted troubleshooting:
Updated Office via Microsoft
Installed Onyx to clean up the font cache
Mac mini, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3), Office for Mac 2011