Reinstalling fonts in microsoft office 2004
Hi there -
I recently bought an iBook G4, OS X 10.4.3. I installed Microsoft Office 2004 (which I had on my iMac G3, OS X 10.3.9)
Following the installation, the first time I opened the Office applications, an error message appeared stating that several fonts were corrupt and should be deleted (this had not happened on the iMac.)
I deleted these fonts in Applications/Office/Fonts.
Since then have been able to use Office 2004 without issue, albeit it without the said fonts. As the fonts were only deleted from Office fonts, they are available in other Applications such as Mail.
I would like to reinstall these fonts in Office. Is that possible? If so, how?
Apologies if there have been similar posts, but my search of topics did not turn up specific enough answers...
Thanks for your help, caroline
I've had a similar problem -- dozens of fonts that I had installed in my font library (luckily I had isolated them in their own folders) were recognized as "corrupt" by my Microsoft Office 2004 software. I pulled them from my font library and dragged them onto my desktop, then restarted. That solves the problem for my Office apps, but I need these fonts when I work in my Adobe CS2 files. Right now, to access those fonts, I have to close my Office apps, drag the fonts back into my font library, then restart my computer. To use Office, I have to reverse the procedure. Any suggestions on how to keep the fonts in my main font library, but make them inaccessible to Office?
imac Mac OS X (10.4.4)
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When it won't allow me. I get the same popup window message. "You can't open the app...beacause PowerPC apps are no longer supported."
Can anyone help or offer advice please.
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I just upgraded my iMac to 10.6.8. Now my Microsoft office applications,(word, excel, ppt) and my camera software to transfer picts from my camera will not launch. (Separate apps but all stopped working as soon as I upgraded from 10.5.8).
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Templeton Peck may have been correct after all! I just got this message from Microsoft Support moments ago:
Thank you for requesting support for Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac. My name is Mike and I will be working with you to resolve this issue.
As I Understand you are Recieving an Error when installing Office 2004, which is not allowing you to Complete the installation.
With Error 36 There is only one thing to do, you will need to contact our Replacment Product Department for a new disc, you can contact them by calling 1-800-360-7561
Please let me know if this resolves your issue.
Thank you for using Microsoft Technical Support...
I guess I'll give a new disk a try -- I'll report back once I've tried that. :~)
rawbertow789
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