Hi Allan, Here?s the Microsoft support link: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q313535
Ward On 10/23/2002 6:43 PM, "Ward Oldham" <woldham at insightbb.com> wrote: > Hi Allen, > > I?ve fought this battle when Office X was first released and I don?t even use > an abundance of fonts. It could be as simple as corrupt Office X preferences. > It wasn?t my problem. Word, Excel and Powerpoint would unexpectedly quit on > launch. This doesn?t sound like your problem but is probably related based on > your problem description. > > After submitting my problem to a forum on http://www.macosxhints.com/, someone > suggested running the Console application in the background while I attempted > to launch Word. When Word quit, it generated log entries to the console which > some folks in the forum deciphered for me. > > It pointed towards corrupt fonts which, more than likely, existed within my > Fonts folder in my OS 9 System Folder. A little trial and error and the > problem was fixed. While some may say that doing this under OS X and then > logging out and back in should work, it didn?t for me. After purging the > suspect fonts, a system restart did the trick. > > All of this is documented on Microsoft?s site as well as in some detailed > MacFixIt archives. Sorry, but I haven?t searched for the specific links yet. > > Hope something here works for you. > > Ward Oldham > > > On 10/23/2002 6:23 PM, "Allan Atherton" <aatherton at insightbb.com> wrote: > >> What should I do about corrupted fonts in Word? >> I am using Word X under OS 10.2.1, and have noticed that Word has begun to >> quit rather frequently. Then today I noticed that in the pull down menu in >> the formatting palette, some of the fonts are gibberish, and I have to >> select a font 3 or 4 lines away from the one I want, in order to get the one >> I want. >> So I guess corrupted fonts are crashing the application. >> Allan Atherton >> >> >> The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be October 22 >> For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of >> activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>. >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20021023/6594e08c/attachment.html
