Arial and Times New Roman disappearing in Microsoft Office following update?

After opening Microsoft Word following update to OS X Maverick on my 2012 15" Macbook Pro w/ retina, I noticed all my font in recent documents was gone, as if it was all turned white (it was not). Spell check still worked, the cursor blinked, but I couldn't see any words, even if I highlighted the text. I checked and did not have hidden text, etc. Times New Roman and Arial are really the only fonts I use, so it looked like Microsoft word was having an issue where it wouldn't display any text.
My IT department played around with it, reset my permissions, reinstalled Microsoft Office, to no avail, though I then realized that every font except Arial and TNR can display. If I open a document in those fonts, I can't see any text, but if I highlight it and change the font to something else, it all appears. I can also copy paste from Arial/TNR into another application and it displays. Arial and Times New Roman don't come up in the dropdown for fonts, either, even though they're enabled in Font Book. Both of those fonts will work in Adobe CS6, however.
I also noticed that all of the slide previews in PowerPoint, and most PowerPoint slides (except those that are only images), look blank—if there's a slide with a colored background and text on it (I'm not sure what font the text was in), the whole slide is totally white, no background.
I just ran FontNuke, to remove font caches, which made no difference. Any thoughts?

Hi Rdk1528 -- did you ever get this issue resolved? I'm having the same problem with my brand-new Mac, new Office 2013... the issue seems to have migrated from copying over the content of my previous computer.

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Yewtree wrote:
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Sorry, but the problem really is on the PC side. Apple Mail has been a standards-compliant mail program from day 1 while none of the major PC mail clients (Lotus, Outlook, AOL) have ever been. Many of the new "HTML" mail features in Apple Mail are an attempt to try to get fancy, formatted e-mail messages across to PCs that have never supported the official ways to do fancy, formatted MIME e-mail. Unfortunately, there is nothing standard about that.
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