[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It was definitely Word 2000. Although I never had that version, I had some
training documents that MS sent us (I only recently finally ditched them),
and I distinctly recall that that was one of many changes made in that
version to push Word toward greater HTML compatibility (I referred to that
version as the first "Webified" one).

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
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I agree about Office 2007 (language difference nuance he up to means as
far as but not including g). But I really thought it was XP that changed
the default size, not 2000 - but it is irrelevant now unless I go through
some time warp!

Terry

"Beth Melton" wrote in message
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No, it was TNR 10 pts until Word 2000. Then it was changed to TNR12. In
Word 2007 it's Calibri 11 pts.

To verify the latter, right-click your Desktop and select New/Word
Document. If you recall this method bypasses the Normal template and uses
the application defaults.

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Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
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My recollection is that the built in default font was TNR 12 pt up to
Office XP when it became TNR 10pt until Office 2007.

Terry Farrell

"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
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I do recall that Word 97 (the first version that I used) had 10 pt TNR
as the default font. But I would expect the Manage Styles dialog box to
show 12 pt as the default for documents whose Normal style was modified
to 12 pt.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Beth Melton" wrote in message
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The Document Defaults are displaying accurate information. They
reflect
the defaults that were used when the document was created. Since Tom
is
seeing Times New Roman 10 points then I'd say he's looking at document
created in a version of Word prior to Word 2000. It was in Word 2000
the
default was changed to TNR 12.