The font “Verdana” is corrupt and should be removed
Opening an Excel file on my Mac, I just got the following error:
The font “Verdana” is corrupt and should be removed
I don’t want to remove fonts! Besides, I don’t believe this is true, because nothing was changed. Solution was given by Art Busbey III at MacinTouch.com:
I have also had this interminable problem with Office and ‘font corruption’ and have tried all kinds of solutions. The only one that really seems to work is to remove the Office application that ‘detects’ all the corrupt fonts. Look for the application called FontCacheTool (it is somewhere in the MS Office folder – just do a find) and pull it out (delete or move to desktop or whatever). The corrupt font problem goes away and, knock on wood, I have yet to find a real corrupt font on the 15 machines I have so modified.
Happy to report this solution works for me. The FontCacheTool was at
/Applications/Microsoft Office 2004/Office/Support Files
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