Font keeps changing back to Calibri?

Anonymous
2010-06-30T16:02:39+00:00

Hello,

I have a question here. Whenever I change my font and then try to type, it keeps changing back to double-spaced 11pt Calibri. I can't cope with this, as I want another font to write my book (sans-serif to have its feel). But I can't change it.

I have tried typing the paragraph first and then change it back to my desired font. It works, but this is just too much work, because in the next paragraph it reverted back to Calibri.

I have tried a solution where one suggests to change the Default font, and that doesn't work either.

For your notes, I have recently updated my Microsoft Office. Updates installed are KB934391, KB967642 and a few security updates.

I will check back here everyday. Please respond quickly.

Sincerely.

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Stefan Blom 353.5K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2010-06-30T17:46:55+00:00

My guess is that you haven't succeeded in properly changing the default font. There are several ways; try this one: In the Styles pane (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S), click the Manage Styles button. On the Set Defaults tab, specify the settings that you want. The changes will apply to the current document, but if you select "New documents based on this template" before clicking OK, the settings will be transferred to the attached template.

If it still doesn't work, try opening the Normal template as a file and make the changes directly (in the Open dialog box, click Trusted Templates, click Normal.dotm and click Open). When you are done, save and close Normal.

Assuming that works, the next step is to investigate what prevented you from saving your Normal template earlier.

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-04-18T15:46:29+00:00

    To set the font size, click Change Styles > Paragraph Spacing >Custom Paragraph Spacing.  The  Manage Styles dialog will appear with the Set Defaults tab showing.  Change the font size there.

    Leave the  font at +Body. But change the other settings (particularly paragraph and line spacings) to what you need.

    I'll put the above in my earlier post so it's all together.

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  2. Stefan Blom 353.5K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2013-04-18T15:37:00+00:00

    Stefan, I'm a long-time user (though like a previous commenter, I much preferred WordPerfect).  I'm pretty savvy and any time I get a new computer the first thing I do is go through and turn off all the annoying auto-correct features (my vocabulary is better than Word's and it was shaming the iPhone for autocorrect errors) and set my default fonts to Times Roman 12 pt (currently Times New Roman).  My current problem is cutting and pasting.  While I have all the defaults changed to keeping the source document, even cutting and pasting within the SAME document will often change the pasted text to Calibri 11 pt.  This is beyond frustrating.  And the old option of keeping the destination font is gone, so pasting from outside into a document cannot be set.

     

    My personal opinion is that having to set a style to make the fonts stay at the default I choose is ridiculous.  And I seem to be a bit out of luck.  Since I never used Styles, I took it off my toolbar and now it won't add it back without making it a subheading under a new title on a tab (in other words, I have to drill down to get it after I go to the correct tab).

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    My guess is that this is a combination of factors. Since you usually don't make use of styles, presumably there is direct formatting present, which can resurface, for example when you press Enter—or when you paste content. To clear direct formatting from the selection, press Ctrl+Q followed by Ctrl+SpaceBar.

    Modifying the Normal style and setting document defaults will be a good start, but it won't suffice. (Also, setting document defaults won't help if you are using the older *.doc file format.)

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-04-18T14:50:09+00:00

    Copying in elements from the existing template into a new document did NOT work.  It used the old "normal" not the new one.  I completely recreated the template I was using and it finally worked.  Fortunately, it was a short template with a 9-row table and the start of a numbered list to be completed.  I will not be this fortunate on all documents.  Are there conversion hints to make copying and pasting into a new document work?

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  4. Anonymous
    2013-04-18T14:29:24+00:00

    It's still setting the body font at 11 point, not 12, though it is finally staying at TNR.  This is unacceptable for our business.  We need 12 point.  How many places do I have to set it before it stays set at 12 point?

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