Font changes without warning

[Roger Corke]

I write a weekly newsletter for my village and always use 12 point Times
Roman type set left.

People email me contributions for it in all sorts of types sizes and fonts.
I cut and paste them in, then type Ctrl A to highlight the whole document and
reset it to 12 point Times Roman.

Then, when I continue typing, every so often without warning a completely
different font or type size appears. It's usually at the beginning of a
paragraph or after a carriage return and it's obviously some sort of hangover
from the original emails I cut and pasted in.

I would have thought I would have got rid of the old font style and type
size but obviously not. Has anyone got any ideas how to shake the old font
and type sizes out of my document permanently?

thanx in advance

Roger Corke

 

[Jezebel]

When you reset the text to 12 point TNR, do you do it by setting the font
and size, or by restoring the inserted text to style? My guess is that
you're doing the former: some of the inserted text is not normal style, so
the 'without warning' changes are the text restoring to 'heading 1' or
'hyperlink' or some other style.

Try this: ctrl-A, ctrl-Q, ctrl-Space. That restores everything to style. If
it's not all 12pt TNR, then some paragraphs have a different style. You
could select all and apply your normal style, then do the above.

Better still, learn about styles. They'll save you a *lot* of time,
especially for something as graphically challenging as a newsletter.