Odd Behavior Changing Fonts

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Mike Wingrove

My wife is working on a paper for school and has run into
an odd behavior in Word (part of Office XP suite).

I have checked that she has all of the service packs and
updates installed for both office and windows.

When she selects a certain section of text in the
document the font name and point size boxes in the
toolbar goes blank as it would if more than one type of
font was selected.

However when she uses the pull down menu to apply a
particular font and point size the font name and size
boxes still remain blank.

Also it is apparent that the font style and size are
actually changing.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Mike
 
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TF

Mike

This has been a 'feature' of all versions of Word since at least Word95. It
has to do with the size of the selected area rather than what you have
selected. To speed up response of 'older' computers, Word does not attempt
to report what font/font size is selected. I did a 'quick' test with one
particular document by selecting paragraph chunks and the point size stopped
after around 5 paragraphs (¾ page). The font itself disappeared from the
display after around 1½ pages. Using the Format font dialog showed the
correct font/font size though.

--
Terry Farrell - Word MVP
http://www.mvps.org/word/


My wife is working on a paper for school and has run into
an odd behavior in Word (part of Office XP suite).

I have checked that she has all of the service packs and
updates installed for both office and windows.

When she selects a certain section of text in the
document the font name and point size boxes in the
toolbar goes blank as it would if more than one type of
font was selected.

However when she uses the pull down menu to apply a
particular font and point size the font name and size
boxes still remain blank.

Also it is apparent that the font style and size are
actually changing.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks,

Mike
 
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