Office 2008 messed up my fonts - help please

[Hobbit]

I just installed office for mac 2008. I now have problems with my browsers' font in both safari and firefox.

The font for some reason seem to overlap and become illegible if the font size below certain size. I'm now having to enlarge the font more than i would normally like just to make the font legible.

I attach 2 snapshots of Macrumors front page on Safari, one before enlarging the font size and the second after.

Can someone help please.

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Try resolving duplicates (from the edit menu in Font Book) and see if that helps...

 

[petvas]

I experienced the same problem but found a workaround that works for me very well:

• Uninstall Office 2008
• Reboot your machine
• Install Office again. Do not proceed with a standard Installation. Go to the custom one.
• Uncheck the Office Fonts
• Install Office

That should fix the problem. Microsoft is so stupid, they are replacing system fonts with their own!

 

[Hobbit]

I experienced the same problem but found a workaround that works for me very well:

• Uninstall Office 2008
• Reboot your machine
• Install Office again. Do not proceed with a standard Installation. Go to the custom one.
• Uncheck the Office Fonts
• Install Office

That should fix the problem. Microsoft is so stupid, they are replacing system fonts with their own!

Thank you for the advice. Reinstalling office without fonts fixed the problem.
I tried to
resolve duplicates first but didn't change anything.

 

[skinEman23]

Update!

I had the same problem - here's a quicker solution. Open fontbook, select all the fonts, right click and select validate. All the fonts Office installed that are bad will show warnings. Remove those, and you'll be good as new without a reinstall.

 

[netnothing]

I can't believe (or...can I ) that Office 2008 is already doing stuff like this.

So, if you don't install the Microsoft fonts....are you missing any functionality in Office?

-Kevin

 

[Domofloge]

I can believe it! I was reading a post on MR about all the bugs Office '08 has. Very very sad. Wish things could just work.

 

[wwwjscom]

I had the same problem - here's a quicker solution. Open fontbook, select all the fonts, right click and select validate. All the fonts Office installed that are bad will show warnings. Remove those, and you'll be good as new without a reinstall.

Thanks! This + a restart had my computer working again....man I was scared for a mintue there. My macbook is only about a week old...Microsoft