For me, only fonts in the Microsoft folder show in Word 2011 for Mac. But moving new fonts into the Microsoft folder did not make them show up in Word. I've used Font Book, put fonts into the Library folder, put them into the enclosed Microsoft folder, and rebooted, but none of it has worked.

In Word, • File Open • Click on Your HD, double click Users, then find and double click on [your username] (as opposed to Shared). • Double-click Library. • Scroll down to Application Support, double click, and choose Microsoft. Select Office, and then find User Templates You should see Normal.dot or Normal.dotm. • Open this, and adjust ALL the settings you like (margins, font, spacing, you can even type in the doc to include space for where you want your name, title, date to appear on every document you create in the future!) • Don't forget to SAVE! • Open a new doc and fill in the blanks/change your prompts and GO! To permanently change the font formatting for all new documents use the following procedures.

• On the Format menu, click Font. • Make all of the desired changes in the Font dialog box. • Click Default. • When prompted with the following, click Yes: Do you want to change the default font to?

This change will affect all new documents based on the NORMAL template. • Hold down the SHIFT key while clicking on the File menu, and click Save All. Word will not prompt you to save the changes to the Normal.dot unless you have the option 'Prompt to Save Normal template' selected on the Save tab of the Preferences dialog box (on the Tools menu, click Preferences).

Hi there, I've recently installed (earlier this year) three new fonts used by a voluntary organisation I work with. All three of the fonts appear in Font Book, and in Pages - but only one of them appears on the font list in Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

The two that don't appear are the regular and bold versions of the same typeface - the other one is unrelated. I have restarted the computer and resolved duplicate fonts in Font Book. I'm running MS Office 2008 on my MacBook Pro - it is running OS X 10.6.8. Thanks for any help, Daniel. All three of the fonts appear in Font Book, and in Pages - but only one of them appears on the font list in Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

This is an extremely common issue with Font Book. Apple should trash this font manager and start over with it.

Whenever Font Book's database gets damaged, and that happens with incredible ease, you see things like this. Fonts won't appear that you've activated, will in some apps but not others, you can't add fonts to Font Book or turn others off, etc. Restart your Mac and immediately hold down the Shift key when you hear the startup chime to boot into Safe Mode.

Keep holding the Shift key until OS X asks you to log in (you will get this screen on a Safe Mode boot even if your Mac is set to automatically log in). Let the Mac finish booting to the desktop and then restart normally. This will clear Font Book's database and the cache files of the user account you logged into in Safe Mode. In Leopard or earlier, any font sets you have created will be gone. Also, all fonts in the three main Fonts folders (System, Library, your user account) will now be active, regardless of their state beforehand. In Snow Leopard, your sets will remain intact.

Don't start Font Book yet. You also want to clear out all other remaining font cache files. Close all running applications. From an administrator account, open the Terminal app and enter the following command. You can also copy/paste it from here into the Terminal window: sudo atsutil databases -remove Terminal will then ask for you to enter your admin password. As you type, it will not show anything, so be sure to enter it correctly. This removes all system and user font cache files.