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
>> 
>> 
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