In Wood 2003 I have a long document with stuff pasted from many places. I
have made Times New Roman 12 Regular my default on the font dialog box. I
have selected all text and made sure it was set as Times New Roman 12 Regular.

Later, during editing, when I select a paragraph that is Times New Roman 12
Bold and want it to be regular, I type control_spacebar (assigned to
"resetchar") to reset it to default. But the text switches to courier new 10
regular (which I never use).

What's up?

You'll need to change the "normal" style in this document. Seems it's set to
courier.
************
Anne Troy
VBA Project Manager
www.OfficeArticles.com

"Jakemas" wrote in message
...
In Wood 2003 I have a long document with stuff pasted from many places. I
have made Times New Roman 12 Regular my default on the font dialog box. I
have selected all text and made sure it was set as Times New Roman 12
Regular.

Later, during editing, when I select a paragraph that is Times New Roman
12
Bold and want it to be regular, I type control_spacebar (assigned to
"resetchar") to reset it to default. But the text switches to courier new
10
regular (which I never use).

What's up?

Or the pasted text is in a style for which Courier New is the Default
Paragraph Font, such as Plain Text.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Anne Troy" wrote in message
...
You'll need to change the "normal" style in this document. Seems it's set
to
courier.
************
Anne Troy
VBA Project Manager
www.OfficeArticles.com

"Jakemas" wrote in message
...
In Wood 2003 I have a long document with stuff pasted from many places.
I
have made Times New Roman 12 Regular my default on the font dialog box.
I
have selected all text and made sure it was set as Times New Roman 12
Regular.

Later, during editing, when I select a paragraph that is Times New Roman
12
Bold and want it to be regular, I type control_spacebar (assigned to
"resetchar") to reset it to default. But the text switches to courier
new
10
regular (which I never use).

What's up?

Thanks for the info. How can I set my default font to Times New Roman regular
12 so that body text only comes in as default or becomes default when I
highlight it and do a resetchar? Everytime?

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Or the pasted text is in a style for which Courier New is the Default
Paragraph Font, such as Plain Text.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Anne Troy" wrote in message
...
You'll need to change the "normal" style in this document. Seems it's set
to
courier.
************
Anne Troy
VBA Project Manager
www.OfficeArticles.com

"Jakemas" wrote in message
...
In Wood 2003 I have a long document with stuff pasted from many places.
I
have made Times New Roman 12 Regular my default on the font dialog box.
I
have selected all text and made sure it was set as Times New Roman 12
Regular.

Later, during editing, when I select a paragraph that is Times New Roman
12
Bold and want it to be regular, I type control_spacebar (assigned to
"resetchar") to reset it to default. But the text switches to courier
new
10
regular (which I never use).

What's up?

If the text is in, say, Plain Text style, then ResetChar will not change it.
To do that you'd have to apply Normal style (Ctrl+Shift+N) or another style
for which TNR is the default font. Alternatively, you can paste unformatted.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Jakemas" wrote in message
...
Thanks for the info. How can I set my default font to Times New Roman
regular
12 so that body text only comes in as default or becomes default when I
highlight it and do a resetchar? Everytime?

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Or the pasted text is in a style for which Courier New is the Default
Paragraph Font, such as Plain Text.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Anne Troy" wrote in message
...
You'll need to change the "normal" style in this document. Seems it's
set
to
courier.
************
Anne Troy
VBA Project Manager
www.OfficeArticles.com

"Jakemas" wrote in message
...
In Wood 2003 I have a long document with stuff pasted from many
places.
I
have made Times New Roman 12 Regular my default on the font dialog
box.
I
have selected all text and made sure it was set as Times New Roman
12
Regular.

Later, during editing, when I select a paragraph that is Times New
Roman
12
Bold and want it to be regular, I type control_spacebar (assigned to
"resetchar") to reset it to default. But the text switches to
courier
new
10
regular (which I never use).

What's up?

I do a lot of cut and paste and get these problems. It is a little more
complex than I expected. But is it possible to set up a word document so
that it shows by color or some indicator when I am in mormal style or other
style or font or format etc?
Thanks

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

If the text is in, say, Plain Text style, then ResetChar will not change it.
To do that you'd have to apply Normal style (Ctrl+Shift+N) or another style
for which TNR is the default font. Alternatively, you can paste unformatted.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Jakemas" wrote in message
...
Thanks for the info. How can I set my default font to Times New Roman
regular
12 so that body text only comes in as default or becomes default when I
highlight it and do a resetchar? Everytime?

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Or the pasted text is in a style for which Courier New is the Default
Paragraph Font, such as Plain Text.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Anne Troy" wrote in message
...
You'll need to change the "normal" style in this document. Seems it's
set
to
courier.
************
Anne Troy
VBA Project Manager
www.OfficeArticles.com

"Jakemas" wrote in message
...
In Wood 2003 I have a long document with stuff pasted from many
places.
I
have made Times New Roman 12 Regular my default on the font dialog
box.
I
have selected all text and made sure it was set as Times New Roman
12
Regular.

Later, during editing, when I select a paragraph that is Times New
Roman
12
Bold and want it to be regular, I type control_spacebar (assigned to
"resetchar") to reset it to default. But the text switches to
courier
new
10
regular (which I never use).

What's up?

The style window in the formatting toolbar does this. If you are editing in
normal view, you can have your styles display in the left margin.
Also, if you copy text without paragraph marks, i.e. only a single paragraph
or less at a time, it will not copy the style.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!
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"Jakemas" wrote in message
...
I do a lot of cut and paste and get these problems. It is a little more
complex than I expected. But is it possible to set up a word document so
that it shows by color or some indicator when I am in mormal style or
other
style or font or format etc?
Thanks

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

If the text is in, say, Plain Text style, then ResetChar will not change
it.
To do that you'd have to apply Normal style (Ctrl+Shift+N) or another
style
for which TNR is the default font. Alternatively, you can paste
unformatted.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
so
all may benefit.

"Jakemas" wrote in message
...
Thanks for the info. How can I set my default font to Times New Roman
regular
12 so that body text only comes in as default or becomes default when I
highlight it and do a resetchar? Everytime?

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Or the pasted text is in a style for which Courier New is the Default
Paragraph Font, such as Plain Text.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the
newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Anne Troy" wrote in message
...
You'll need to change the "normal" style in this document. Seems
it's
set
to
courier.
************
Anne Troy
VBA Project Manager
www.OfficeArticles.com

"Jakemas" wrote in message
...
In Wood 2003 I have a long document with stuff pasted from many
places.
I
have made Times New Roman 12 Regular my default on the font
dialog
box.
I
have selected all text and made sure it was set as Times New
Roman
12
Regular.

Later, during editing, when I select a paragraph that is Times
New
Roman
12
Bold and want it to be regular, I type control_spacebar (assigned
to
"resetchar") to reset it to default. But the text switches to
courier
new
10
regular (which I never use).

What's up?