That's worked for us-good luck! Fonts and Microsoft Office can be a frustrating adventure. (More about deleting your OSX font cache here). If this still doesn't work, you might need to try a bigger hammer-deleting your OSX font cache. In the startup menu, you should see a 'Rebuilding Font Menu' progress bar-that means it worked! Your new typefaces should be in the font menu (fingers crossed). ~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office 2011/Office Font CacheĪfter deleting the font cache, restart PowerPoint. (If you downloaded it recently, it will likely be in your downloads folder.) Double-click the. Click the '+' sign at the top of the window to add a new font. Open 'Font Book' by searching for it in your finder. On older operating systems, it's located in: Option 2: Manually input the font in Word. ~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/Preferences/Office 2011/Office Font Cache Delete the cache to force Office to rebuild it. Microsoft keeps its own cache of your fonts, and sometimes this gets out of sync with your system. Restart all the things-and when you re-open PowerPoint you should see your font. To install a font in the 'Computer' group, open your Font Book (the default OSX app that manages fonts) and drag the files into the 'Computer' section in the left hand sidebar. Ask your client what edition they are using, then look up fonts that are checked in their column and in the column for your version. Here's a handy PDF that shows the fonts that come with different versions of Office. Instead, use a font that comes with Office. Install the font in 'Computer' not 'User.' When you double-click a font file in OSX, the operating system installs fonts in 'User' by default. Font embedding for Word for Mac isn't here yet, though PowerPoint can do it. Having trouble with custom fonts in PowerPoint in Office 2011? If you haven't already cracked your laptop into pieces out of frustration, here's the fix.

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