Macs are not perfect even though one’s productivity is much higher with one. When things go wrong – they can sometimes really go wrong.
Fonts For Pages Mac
One customer had issues with a critical branding font that installs fine on everyone else’s Macbook but not theirs. I now know more about fonts that I ever wanted to know especially how Microsoft fonts fit into the Mac picture. I researched dozens of websites each adding a piece to the puzzle. Here we go …
There are 4 font stores on your Mac
user fonts stored in /Users/youraccount/Library/Fonts
computer wide (all accounts) fonts in /Library/Fonts
system fonts in /System/Library/Fonts (never ever touch these)
Microsoft Office fonts in /Library/Fonts/Microsoft (ahhh I see)
ONLY TTF fonts work for Office – or so MS claims
To install fonts for MS Office 2011 – don’t double click them – this installs them naturally in the user fonts
instead – start up Font Book (use the spotlight or magnifying glass to find it quick in the upper right of your Mac)
drag them from your Finder onto Computer (under the Collection section at the left of the Font Book app)
A reboot triggers the Mac Font store to sync with Office. Don’t forget to reboot before ripping your hair out
Adding fonts to the user fonts will never show up in Microsoft Office products
Don’t assume that because a font works in lets say Word, that it will appear in Excel – it might once the cache catches up
Microsoft font cache file can be delete so it will force a refresh – but it can be in 2 places – check both. Microsoft moved it for Office 2011 for Mac for some computers different than others
Lion? goto finder and hold the option key and …
click the menu Go->Library or type in a folder /Library by choosing the Go->Go to Folder option then navigate eventually to /Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office 2011
not there? Microsoft moved them in later releases of Office 2011 to /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Preferences/Office 2011 – even MS’ articles are incorrect!
also you might need to look in /Users/yourname/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Preferences/Office 2011
when you re-start work or Excel you will now see a task completing to rebuild the cache files and if you observe the location above you will see new cache files
Here is a link to completely remove Office on a mac and is the final puzzle piece that allowed me to solve this riddle http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2398768
Oct 08, 2018 How to Install Custom Fonts For PowerPoint Templates In Windows & MAC Gone are the days when business PowerPoint presentations were limited to use only the default system fonts. Now almost all professional presentation templates are designed incorporating modern custom font types.
Best Free Fonts For Mac
The download prompt was triggered from Outlook for Mac. As it is strange, I skip the download when it prompted. As it is a Font package (STKaiti), therefore, i decided to go to Font Book of Mac and manually download by myself. I guess the point is that if you are prompted and you are uncertain that download is legit. Use two methods to embed PowerPoint fonts. Embed TrueType and OpenType fonts with embedding permissions, and view them on Mac with Office 365. Attach fonts using the 'Universal' embedding method and view them on all platforms using the up-to-date version of Microsoft PowerPoint 2011 or above installed.