Re: Word macro font size

Thanks for the reply, Cheryl!

I'm sure Julie will read your replies, too.

I receive a new template with each job that is sent to me. Of course, it is always the same template, containing all the heading information. My understanding it that it was created in TNR 12. I create the AutoText entry or Smartype SmartBlock in that same document. When I run the shortcut, it shows up as TNR 10. I am getting the same result in both AutoText and Smartype SmartBlock

If I do the same thing in a new document, not using Julie's template, the shortcut will show up as TNR 12, so I feel it has something to do with Julie's template.

BUT, (big but) I have had it show up as TNR 10 at times in a new document, but not always. When I posted this question, as you saw, several other people said they had the same problem.

Thanks for your help, Cheryl!!!

Neal

cherylflanders@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: 
Neal, are you by chance changing fonts/point size *after* you open new
documents instead of using templates where the *default* font is
already set?  If you just switch to a different font when you first
open a document, then copy text to create something like an AutoText
entry (or certain expander entries), the entry is always going to
expand in the font you switched to.  If you create the entry in the
*default* font of the document, the entry will expand in other
documents in the correct font/point size.

So, if your template *default* style is set to TNR 12 and you create
your entry in that style, when you open documents from a template set
in Arial 10, the entry will expand in Arial 10.  The whole point of
using templates (.dot files) is so this kind of format change is
automated for you.

Cheryl

Neal wrote:

Whenever I make a block of text, when I run the macro in Smartype, it
comes out one size smaller than what I want.  For example, I make it in
Times New Roman, 12 pt and it comes out 10 pt.  I tried making it
originally in 14 point, but it came out 14 point.

Has anyone ever experience this strange phenomenon and solved it?

Thanks,

Neal 


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