[duxuser]
- From: "George Bell" <info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <duxuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 13:19:41 -0000
I thought I'd pass this on since it is an old chestnut, which actually reared
it's head again last week on a 98 System where DBT 10.4's braille fonts
"disappeared".
However it appears it is still a problem in later versions of Word.
The following is copied courtesy of Woody's Office Watch.
George Bell.
5. TOO MANY FONTS AN' YER OUT
WOWser Francine Millman, founder of PROMPT Consulting, HYPERLINK
"http://www.promptconsulting.com/"http://www.promptconsulting.com , writes:
"Recently, I had a problem in Word 2002 whereby every single time I went to
insert a Symbol into my document, the lovely error window would display and
bounce me out of Word.
There were no articles on the Microsoft website that I could find (and I was
ultimately told there were none addressing this for the public), and after
SEVERAL hours on the phone with Microsoft Support in both India and Canada and
no one being able to resolve this, I was bumped up to the next level of support
at Microsoft.
They amazingly called me back within the 48 hours I was told they would
(actually, they called within about 5 hours), and the tech with whom I spoke
told me that this is a font issue -- that I have too many fonts installed.
He told me that once there are about 500 fonts, Microsoft just cannot handle
it. Yes, I had a lot of fonts -- about 1500 of them. Never caused me a problem
before, EVEN in Word 2002 and then suddenly, it did.
So, I removed about 100 of them, to see if that would work and IT DID WORK!
I suggested that Microsoft include an article on this. I would have saved about
10 hours on this problem if there was one. He seemed to know right away what
the issue was. It would have been nice had they shared it with Microsoft users!
Now, all is AOK."
Remember that you have to re-start Word (and shut down Outlook, if you use Word
as your email editor) to force Word to re-construct its font list. While
collecting fonts for fun and profit may sound like fun, in fact having more
than a couple hundred hanging around is a sure invitation to disaster - or at
least instability. If you really want to use a whole, big bunch of fonts,
install a font manager like the free AMP Font Viewer, HYPERLINK
"http://www.tucows.com/preview/283930.html"http://www.tucows.com/preview/283930.html
, which lets you show and hide fonts as you need them.
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