Default font not memorised in template normal.dotm

Hi Stefan

Thank you for your answer. Yes I am sure that I had the correct Normal.dotm. But I had a real difficult time finding it so your idea is really handy. I tried and it worked of course.

It does not resolve my problem but I learnt something, thank you.

So from the answers I got, it is obviously not a problem of normal.dotm so I will phrase my question differently: When I mark papers (created with Word 10), I always start my feedback with the date of the marking so I initially copy it once and then paste it each time I enter a comment.

After 4 or 5 times, it suddenly starts pasting it using Calibri bold 10.

Is there ANY way to change/stop that please?

Thank you for your time.

Pascale

Thanks Suzanne for your answer so it is obviously not a problem of normal.dotm

I will phrase my question differently: When I mark papers (created with Word 10), I always start my feedback on the paper submitted with the date of the marking so I initially copy it once and then paste it each time I enter a comment.

After 4 or 5 times, it suddenly starts pasting it using Calibri bold 10.

Is there ANY way to change/stop that please?

With my thanks

Pascale

Hello Stefan

Thanks for this idea. I think I did not phrase my problem as well as I could have done. There are 2 different situations:

1/ when I open a new document on my computer which should open in Arial 11 regular.

And I am sorry to say that amending the normal.dotm to automatically open word docs with Arial 11 regular does not seem to work all the times, sometimes it does sometimes it does not and then open in Calibri 10 bold and I don't know why.

2/ when I amend a document sent to me by someone else.

This is when I paste in an existing paragraph the date. Even though I first typed it as Arial 11 and copied it, after 4 or 5 time of pasting it, it changes to Calibri. Again no idea why!

Because this date is inserted within an existing paragraph (with different formatting in terms of alignment, colour and bullet points), creating a style does not work in this case (good idea though) or I will have to create too many to be worth it.

If you had any other solutions, it would be great. In any case thank you for your time and help.

Pascale

1. Which are the specific steps when you change the font? You should do it by clicking the Set as Default button, even after you opened the Normal template. When prompted you can choose to change the defaults in the active document—assuming that the active file is the Normal template open as a document.

2. This suggests that the document that you are editing wasn't correctly formatted (by the original creator). Pressing Enter, for one thing, may revert to the settings of the underlying style. Try pasting in the date as "Unformatted Text."

1/ I did 2 different things:

- opened normal.dotm,

- selected relevant font/size/effects 

- saved and closed

and also

when opening a new doc or amending an existing one and the font is calibri 10 bold, I go to:

- font section of the ribbon,

- select Arial 11 regular

- click on bottom button SET AS DEFAULT

- select ALL DOCUMENTS BASED ON NORMAL TEMPLATE .DOTM

- save the document

Should I have done it differently?

2/ will try, thank you.