You can turn off the recent font list by editing the registry. Copy and
paste the following to a notepad document (example shown is Word 2003).
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Word\Options]
"NoFontMRUList"="1"
Save it as FontListOff.reg
Merge it into the registry with Word closed. (right click the filename in
Windows Explorer and select Merge)
To turn it back on again
Change "NoFontMRUList"="1"
to
"NoFontMRUList"="0"
to start the list again (empty).
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