Spontaneous font changes in Word 2004.

[Robin Henderson]

Running Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac. I have the default font set to
Lucida Bright. When pasting from one Word doc to another, both in
Lucida, the text pastes as Times New Roman. How can I make it stop
doing this (i.e., paste as Lucida)?

Thanks.

 

[Patty Winter]

Running Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac. I have the default font set to
Lucida Bright. When pasting from one Word doc to another, both in
Lucida, the text pastes as Times New Roman. How can I make it stop
doing this (i.e., paste as Lucida)?

There must be some Times defined somewhere. However, if all the
text around where you're pasting is Lucida, then you should be
able to use Paste Special > Unformatted Text. Unfortunately,
Word 2004 doesn't have the Paste and Match Formatting option that
the current release does, so you have to do it in two steps.


Patty

 

[RobG]

Running Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac. I have the default font set to
Lucida Bright. When pasting from one Word doc to another, both in
Lucida, the text pastes as Times New Roman. How can I make it stop
doing this (i.e., paste as Lucida)?

You can also create a "paste unformatted text" macro as described
here:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/w...matting-into-a-word-document-HA001042961.aspx

I put a button on the menu bar so every time I paste text, I use the
button. Word really should allow pasting without formatting by
default, using the source formatting is very much the exception for me
(and most people I know).

 

[Patty Winter]

You can also create a "paste unformatted text" macro as described
here:

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/w...matting-into-a-word-document-HA001042961.aspx

That's very promising, Rob!

One note to users of newer versions of Word: The "Close and Return
to Microsoft Word" item is now in the Word menu of the editor, not
the File menu.

I put a button on the menu bar so every time I paste text, I use the
button.

How did you do that, Rob? I like your idea better than redefining
Cmd-V as the MS website suggests. (Well, they talk about Ctrl-V,
but that's because this tip was obviously written for Windows...)


Patty