Excess fonts

Whenever I open a Spread Sheet in Works 7.0 I get the following:

"There are more than 500 fonts in the system. Reduce the number of
fonts or the display may be incorrect"

Only happens when I open a Works Spread Sheet. No problem with other
software. Is there software that will manage the fonts and delete
duplicates?

Any help appreciated. Thanks.

Phil B.

 

in message

Well, I have to admit that having more than 500 fonts installed is rather a
lot. Heck, I've got WinXP, Office 2003 Professional, Visio 2003 and
FrontPage 2003 installed and my workstation still has "only" 378 fonts. What
have you been installing that puts that many fonts on? Anyway...

Assuming Windows XP (because you didn't say what version of Windows you're
using)

Start

Control Panel

Fonts

From the View menu choose List Fonts By Similarity

You can then choose a particular font from the drop-down menu and you'll be
show which other installed fonts are similar to the one you've picked. You
can then make a choice regarding which of the similar ones you want to
delete.

 

Fontlister: http://www.theill.com/fl/

 

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=265954

 

Something that I do, regularly, is view the list of fonts and remove the
obvious duplicates and 'useless' fonts. By useless, I am referring to
something like: Arial, Arial Bold, Arial Italic, Arial Bold Italic. When
using most programs, you have the option of bold, italic, and/or bold
italic, therefore, I remove them, leaving only Arial in the font list. This
is very time consuming, however, it will cut down the font list by a goodly
number...luck...

 

Only do this if you don't know or particularly care what the outcome
looks like. A simulated bold Arial (Helvetica to old school typesetters)
is the normal Arial with a few pixels added around each character. A
true Arial Bold font is drawn differently. Admittedly, it's not a huge
difference but if you're in the design/graphics industry you'd better
know something this basic.

A good solution for the OP would be to use a font manager and keep sets
of fonts for use for different applications. There's lots of them,
Google up "font manager".

 

Thanks to all who responded to my post. I am going thru the process of
deleting some fonts by copying to another folder the fonts I want to delete
prior to deleting. I have them available if needed by XP or some
application.

Again, thanks for the help.

Phil B.

 

Font Soap - font cleaner, font list restorer

I had the problem of too many fonts myself. I searched around, but no one had a good solution to delete thousands of fonts all at once without deleting default and common fonts. So, I developed this program called Font Soap with the C# language. You just open Font Soap and click the button and it cleans your installed fonts by deleting nonstandard fonts. Of course, you can backup all the fonts beforehand if you are cautious about my program. It was designed for Windows XP, so it thinks the fonts are in C:\WINDOWS\Fonts. If your fonts are located somewhere else, let me know and I'll edit the program for you. I will send Font Soap to you after you send just $5 to my verified PayPal account: [email protected] . net
See the link below for a demonstration image of the program.
drolex.net/fontsoap/FontSoap_HowTo.jpg

Thanks,
David