Visual Studio For Mac Keeps Becoming Unresponsive

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Problems launching Word for Mac 2016 (Version 16.11) [FIXED]Last Updated: April 20, 2018

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Issues affecting Word for Mac features and add-ins

Issues with fonts in Office for macOS [WORKAROUND]

Too many steps to add a watch, too many default watches, the watch window become unresponsive when scrolling, too many steps to delete multiple watches. Edge keeps launching new tabs on whatever is my more recent browser window rather than my 'Debug' window, so I can't read news while waiting for spinup because Edge keeps throwing up a. Personally I find Visual Studio way more productive, so I'll use Visual Studio any chance I get and if need be push the code to my git repo,let the other devs pull it to heir Mac to complete the iOS portion in Xamarin Studio (which should be very light because you've completed at least 70% of the shared code already.

ISSUE

Users may see issues with fonts when using version 16.9 of Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook, OneNote and Microsoft PowerPoint on macOS.

Symptoms:

Visual
  • Text appears garbled or in a different font

  • Fonts not appearing in font picker

STATUS: WORKAROUND

We recommend you check the installed versions of the font. If you have multiple versions, then make sure the latest version of the font is active.

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For more information, read about how to fix Issues with fonts in Office for macOS

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