Another weirdness with my new MBP under Mojave: fonts with MS Office 2011

[PeterB]

In addition to the window resizing problem I'd posted about previously: http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1...sg-2330645

I just discovered that under Mojave (since that's the OS the MBP has to run), the fonts in MS Office 2011, for lack of a better description, look weird. It's like the kerning is off, too much space between letters. Anyone seen this before, and know the fix? TiA

[rjmacs]

It's Mojave, not Office or your fonts.

[PeterB]

rjmacs wrote:
It's Mojave, not Office or your fonts.

Actually I don't think so ... the problem is only evident in MS Word, Excel, etc. Let me see if I can show a screenshot...

https://imgur.com/a/fDh9fzB

(that's supposed to be Helvetica 12pt.)

[rjmacs]

Hmm! That does look weird... You've checked the font formatting, I presume, with no differences between those strings?

Does the problem only occur with certain fonts? Anything look weird in Font Book? Duplicates installed or corrupted fonts?

[PeterB]

Actually that particular document was one that looked perfectly fine before opening it with Word 2011 under Mojave (I was running Sierra before Mojave, and everything looked fine under Sierra). It affects multiple documents and in both Word and Excel, but everything in other apps looks fine.

And yes, I'm going to check Font Book next. I know I don't have any corrupted fonts, but I might have duplicates. I do remember that whenever installing Office, I would sometimes have to reinstall the original fonts. I wonder if that's what the issue is.

Edit: I just checked for duplicates, and Font Book only found three, and these three are fonts I never use. So no joy there, and what's causing this is still a mystery.

[PeterB]

Update, it gets weirder:

https://imgur.com/a/JwyyU4n

... on that bottom part, they should all be lined up in the indent. So I'm guessing the font problem is causing this to happen too.

Edit: doing a little searching, it looks like Office 2011 is no longer officially supported, so maybe that's the problem? What is/are folks preferred version of Office at this point? (I've resisted upgrading because it seems they just keep making it worse and worse...)

[Sarcany]

Have you tried...

1. Removing the normal template from ~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/User Templates?

2. Removing the Office font cache file from ~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/Preferences? (Not 100% on the path, but it's somewhere around there.)

3. Doing a safe-boot-and-reboot (hold down shift key on boot, then don't log in, just reboot and don't hold down the shift key the second time) to flush system font caches?

4. Using Font Book to "Restore Standard Fonts" and then reboot? (Note: Removes 3d party fonts, so back up any fonts that are important to you before doing this!)

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BTW: imgur supplies links formatted just for embedding in Phorum boards like this one. You can use those links to embed the images right in the thread.

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Office 2016 either perpetual license or via Office365 subscription is the current version of MS Office. I believe support for Office 2016 perpetual licenses is scheduled to end in 2021 while Office365 subscription-licenses cover upgrades to Office 2019 (when it ships) and whatever comes next.

However, many people have found LibreOffice to be a good (free) substitute.

[PeterB]

Sarcany wrote:
Have you tried...

1. Removing the normal template from ~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/User Templates?

2. Removing the Office font cache file from ~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/Preferences? (Not 100% on the path, but it's somewhere around there.)

3. Doing a safe-boot-and-reboot (hold down shift key on boot, then don't log in, just reboot and don't hold down the shift key the second time) to flush system font caches?

4. Using Font Book to "Restore Standard Fonts" and then reboot? (Note: Removes 3d party fonts, so back up any fonts that are important to you before doing this!)

...

BTW: imgur supplies links formatted just for embedding in Phorum boards like this one. You can use those links to embed the images right in the thread.

...

Office 2016 either perpetual license or via Office365 subscription is the current version of MS Office. I believe support for Office 2016 perpetual licenses is scheduled to end in 2021 while Office365 subscription-licenses cover upgrades to Office 2019 (when it ships) and whatever comes next.

However, many people have found LibreOffice to be a good (free) substitute.

Ahhh, thank you!!! I did steps 1 and 2, and that seems to have done it.

I may update to Office 2016 anyway, since 2011 has been EOL'd.

And yes I know about embedding images, but sometimes I prefer non embedded as a matter of courtesy.