[Casper] MS Office 2008 configuration

[Miles Leacy]

"Do Fonts" was software that would scan your fonts when launching an Office
2004 application.  If any of the Microsoft-installed fonts were missing, Do
Fonts would replace them.  It's akin to an Acrobat-self repair, and just as
much of a problem if you're trying to manage fonts.
There were several ways to disable it, all of which (at least the ones I
knew about) were inelegant, dirty hacks.

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2008/12/12 Smith, William <william.smith at merrillcorp.com>

>  On 12/11/08 4:14 PM, "Miles Leacy" <miles.leacy at themacadmin.com> wrote:
>
> I'm curious to see what customizations folks are using for their Office
> 2008 deployments.
>
> [snip]
>
> What modifications are you using?  Does anyone run into the "do fonts"
> issue that was present in Office 2004?  If so, how do you stop it?
>
>
> I have to admit that we need to plan for our Office 2008 migration
> ourselves. We still have a dependency on VBA but I'm pretty sure that could
> be redone with AppleScript.
>
> What's the "do fonts" issue you're referring to? I prefer to install a full
> application package and then use post-install scripts to customize for each
> of our group's needs. Microsoft did a great thing by putting all their fonts
> into /Library/Fonts/Microsoft for Office 2008. That makes manipulating their
> font install very painless.
>
> I'll be visiting with the MacBU folks at Macworld in January and hope to
> get some insight from their Entourage developers for automating the upgrade
> process. They should know the right hooks. If I learn anything then I'll be
> sure to spread the wealth.
>
> --
>
> bill
>
> William M. Smith, Technical Analyst
> MCS IT
> Merrill Communications, LLC
> (651) 632-1492
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