Office Maintenance Setup Doesn't Remove Font Files

• Microsoft Office for the Macintosh, versions 4.2, 4.2.1, 4.2.1a, 4.2.1b

SYMPTOMS

When you run Microsoft Office Setup installation maintenance program, and you choose to remove any of the fonts installed by Microsoft Office, the files appear to be removed, and Setup completes successfully; however, the font files are not removed from your hard disk drive.

CAUSE

This behavior is by design of Microsoft Office. Fonts are not removed, because the Setup program doesn't know which application was used to install the font files. However, these files are listed in either the Components Not Yet Installed list or in the Installed Components list in the maintenance Setup dialog box so that you can install them again if they are deleted from your hard drive.

Note that if you do remove any of the fonts using the Microsoft Office Setup program, the next time you run Office Setup, the fonts that you removed are listed in the Components Not Yet Installed list even though the files were not actually removed.

WORKAROUNDS

To remove installed fonts from your computer, you can do the following:

1. Run Microsoft Office Setup.

2. In the Microsoft Office Setup dialog box, choose the Add/Remove button.

3. In the Installed Components list, click the triangle next to Tools to display the list of Tools options. Clear the check box next to each option under Tools except for the check box next to Fonts.

   To remove specific fonts, click the triangle next to Fonts to display the list of individual fonts, and clear the check box next to any font you do NOT want to remove.

4. Choose Continue.

5. When Setup is complete, double-click the System Folder, then double- click the Fonts folder in the Finder.

6. Drag the corresponding files to the trash.

   Arial
   Arial Narrow
   Arial Rounded Bold
   Bauhaus93
   Book Antiqua
   Bookman Old Style
   Bookman Old Style Bold
   Braggadociao
   Britannic Bold
   Brush Script
   Century Gothic
   Century Schoolbook
   Colonna
   Courier New
   Desdemona
   Footlight Light
   Impact
   Kino
   Matura Script Capitals
   Mistral
   Monotype Corsiva
   Monotype Sorts
   Playbill
   Stencil
   Times New Roman
   Vivaldi
   Widelatin
   Wingdings