Office 2016 slow to launch

Hi,

I found this very detailed Mac OS X font information pdf at http://www.jklstudios.com/misc/Font\_Management\_in\_OS\_X.pdf

It looks like you should generally keep the /Fonts folder in each package, but most of the optional fonts actually reside in /DFonts which is supposedly safe to delete. The Arial family are in here, so I'm not sure what Office will do if these are missing, since they are so common.  

Here is an excerpt that shows the steps to remove the removed/missing fonts from the font menu drop down:

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Close all Office 2016 apps if they're running. For each application package, right click on an app and choose Show Package Contents. In each app, drill down to Contents/Resources. It's easiest to do this next part in List view, so press Command+2 if you're not already in List view. Type "font". The list will jump to the first entry by that name, which is fontFamilyImages.plist. Highlight that item, scroll all the way down to fontsInfo.plist and Shift+click on that file. Then scroll up and Command+click on the folder Fonts to deselect it. That will leave 60 .plist files selected, all with font as the first part of the file name. Delete all of them.

When you launch each Office 2016 app, they will open slowly the first time after doing this as it rebuilds its font list and caches. But now each app will only show fonts that actually exist on the drive, along with the few in each Office 2016 application package (assuming you've al

so removed each embedded DFonts folder).

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Sam24sk probably has the best advice in just not going to Office 2016.  Office 2011 is true OS X software and efficient. The one exception might be Outlook 2016 which actually does provide needed feature AND performance improvements. (Yes Office 2016 is also "pretty")

For those who would like to de-bloat Office 2016, I provide the following steps.  Note - I don't use Office 2016 in a "power" sense so I'm willing to delete ALL unneeded fonts  and language resources.  You will have to make your determination of the extent of how much you want to remove/de-bloat.  Also Microsoft so-called updates will put all the "fat" right back in so most of you will not be as tenacious at "exercising" his right to be free of it.

Steps to thin out the bloat in each application of the Office 2016 for Mac:

1. Open the Applications folder
2. Right click (Control-click) on one of the Office applications (i.e Microsoft Word), select Show Package Contents.
3. Opens Contents and than Resources.  Click on the Kind column heading.  This will sort folders together. List view is recommended.
4. For Word, Excel and Powerpoint - I delete ALL the fonts in the DFonts folder. For Outlook and Notes, I let this be because Outlook did render strangely.  Also there are fewer fonts to delete. There is a Fonts folder.  Leave it alone.
5. Open DFonts, type Control-A to select all and press Command-D.  Enter the Mac password to delete.
6. Back in the Resources folder, I delete all the language folders ending in .lproj except the en.lprog.  If you actually need more than one language, leave the ones you use.  The abbreviations in most cases clearly indicate the language.
7. Back up in Contents, open Shared Resources and then Proofing Tools.  Delete unneeded language tools.
8. Repeat for each Office application.

Watch the disk size of each application shrink to less than half its installed size.  You WILL see a dramatic improvement in launch speed.  In fact launch speed will be comparable to the launch speed of the older Office 2011 applications

Warning:  The next Office "upgrade" will waste bandwidth, time and disk resources and download all the files and resources you deleted.  You will have to repeat after each so-called update which in reality is a complete re-install of each Office application.  The above deletion steps might be a nice project for someone to write an application (macro) to de-bloat all the Office 2016 applications after each so-called update.  There are third party applications to delete unneeded language resources from applications.

Unfortunately, whether you delete unneeded fonts or not, each Office application Font menu will show the drop down list as if each were still there (even when you delete fonts from the Systems fonts area using Font Book!).

So with Office 2016, you get tons of duplicated fonts, multiplied foreign language resources (lproj, fonts, tools) and a static Font menu.  This is all because Microsoft is treating their OS X Office applications like there were iOS - each application is to be independent.  Office 2016 is a huge step backwards in load time mostly because of all this bloated duplicate internal resources in EACH application of the suite.