Script to remove redundant Office2004 fonts

Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, November 22 2004 @ 04:55 pm MST

I found this to a particular nuisance when working with Roaming Desktop users. MS Office wants to install fonts into the user's home directory--which means that each user would duplicated the fonts possessed by every other user at the site. Not only that, but upon first launch it took a significant amount of time to copy the fonts up from the client Mac to the Networked Home Directory server.

I didn't know about the "dofonts" file, and might try removing that next time; but I did find that once they were in /Library/Fonts, Office knows enough not to re-install them for a new user in ~/Library/Fonts.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, November 24 2004 @ 07:09 am MST

You can also rename the Fonts folder inside MS Office 2004 -> Office and the fonts won't copy.

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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, November 24 2004 @ 08:56 am MST

The best way to stop the Office fonts from being installed in every users'
home folder is to just take the fonts it installs in ~/library/fonts and just
move them to /library/fonts and from that point on whenever a user launches
an Office app the program will see that those fonts are already installed in a
valid font location and will not perform its install routine. It works like a
champ for my 2000 users with network home folders as long as I have those
fonts already installed on the machine's harddrive.

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