That's worked for us-good luck! Fonts and Microsoft Office can be a frustrating adventure. (More about deleting your OSX font cache here). If this still doesn't work, you might need to try a bigger hammer-deleting your OSX font cache. In the startup menu, you should see a 'Rebuilding Font Menu' progress bar-that means it worked! Your new typefaces should be in the font menu (fingers crossed). ~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office 2011/Office Font CacheĪfter deleting the font cache, restart PowerPoint. On older operating systems, it's located in: Install a custom font you have downloaded. zip format double-click the zip file to open it. If you have downloaded a font that is saved in. zip files to reduce file size and to make downloading faster. Many third parties outside of Microsoft package their fonts in. ~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/Preferences/Office 2011/Office Font Cache On the Mac you use the Font Book to add the font and then copy it to the Windows Office Compatible folder. Delete the cache to force Office to rebuild it. Microsoft keeps its own cache of your fonts, and sometimes this gets out of sync with your system. Restart all the things-and when you re-open PowerPoint you should see your font. To install a font in the 'Computer' group, open your Font Book (the default OSX app that manages fonts) and drag the files into the 'Computer' section in the left hand sidebar. Install the font in 'Computer' not 'User.' When you double-click a font file in OSX, the operating system installs fonts in 'User' by default. Having trouble with custom fonts in PowerPoint in Office 2011? If you haven't already cracked your laptop into pieces out of frustration, here's the fix.

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