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Reduce Microsoft Word launch times
Authored by: fds on May 21, '07 09:14:47AM

Office 2004 is buggy - no wonder there - and if you install a significant amount of fonts on your system, the font caching crap reruns every time you restart an Office application, even if you haven't changed your fonts.

Some rough testing I did seems to put the number of font files after the bug occurs at around 1000. And every style counts separately in that number, eg. Bold, Italic, etc. Which fonts you install doesn't matter, only the number of them.

For me to stop the font caching nightmare to stop for good was to actually trash the FontCacheTool application. Even if I unchecked the WYSIWYG font menus option it kept on remaking its stupid cache.



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