Microsoft word +fonts

In February I upgraded to 10.4 and sense then I've had a lot of trouble with Word and my fonts. Looking on line I found that I could delete the font cache from the library and that works but Word (and all of office) takes for ever to load and half the time crashes. Any advice?
G5 Dual 2.5 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

Hi daevud:
The most reliable way to clear the font cache in 10.4 (other than with a third-party utility such as Tiger Cache Cleaner or Linotype FontExplorer X) is to restart the computer in safe mode (hold down Shift while you reboot) and then restart again normally. Is this how you did it, or another way?
Have you tried deleting your Office preferences - you'll find several com.microsoft.Office.plist files (eg com.microsoft.Word.plist) in your home/Library/Preferences folder, as well as a Microsoft folder. You can trash them all, and see if that helps.
Matt

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