Resolve Font Duplicates With Snow Leopard

One of my favourite Snow Leopard features is one that doesn’t get a lot of attention, and is one I discovered quite by accident.

If you use Microsoft Office for the Mac (or, like me, use both the Mac and Windows versions on the same machine), you may not know that every time you reinstall the application, the fonts are reinstalled too. I had no idea that I had in some cases up to five copies of the same font on my machine until I opened Font Book in Snow Leopard.

There are two ways to resolve the font duplications: the first is to select each font individually:

The second way is to select all suspected duplicates and remove them all at once:

It’s the little thoughtful but unobtrusive options like these that make me a dedicated Mac user.