09-16-2012, 03:37 AM
I get it all the time. Several times a day, using Word 2011 with 10.6.8. Getting near the Font menu (in the menu bar or tool bar) will give me the old wristwatch. That's with WYSIWYG menus disabled.
I've spent hours rooting out duplicates and damaged fonts, and I've trashed the Word font database thingies. Trying to access the font menu can take 10-15 seconds. I had the same problem with Word '08 & it's why I finally shelled out for Office 2011. Now I just try never to use Word. I even built a document with snippets of text in my favorite fonts, so I can open it, cut and paste the right snippet, then change the text in it, rather than use a menu to change something to Adobe Garamond.
Between that, and empty browsers chewing up 1-2 gigs of RAM, I am not happy. It makes me less likely to buy a new mac, not more!
I've spent hours rooting out duplicates and damaged fonts, and I've trashed the Word font database thingies. Trying to access the font menu can take 10-15 seconds. I had the same problem with Word '08 & it's why I finally shelled out for Office 2011. Now I just try never to use Word. I even built a document with snippets of text in my favorite fonts, so I can open it, cut and paste the right snippet, then change the text in it, rather than use a menu to change something to Adobe Garamond.
Between that, and empty browsers chewing up 1-2 gigs of RAM, I am not happy. It makes me less likely to buy a new mac, not more!