I suspect that your text has been formatted as Superscript. Select it and
press Ctrl+Spacebar. If that doesn't help, go to Format | Font and make sure
Superscript isn't checked. If it is, clear the check box and then click the
Default... button in the document and then OK to restore the
un-superscripted format as the default for new documents.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Paul in ABQ" Paul in wrote in message
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My font sizes changed recently and I can't get them back to normal size.
When I open a new document, the default is Times New Roman 12 pt.
However,
that's not what shows up on the screen. The font is tiny, more like 8
pt.,
although it is labeled as 12 pt. I am using print view, page width.
Worse
yet, the line spacing (set to single) seems to be at normal scale so that
single spacing looks like double spacing and any effort to reduce by
setting
"exactly at" cuts off the portions of font below the line (e.g., jgypq).
Any
older documents created before this problem occurred look fine, that is 12
pt. font looks like 12 pt font (print view, page width). However,
anything
new suffers from this problem.