Re: Word macro font size

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"Neal" <nbrown12@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> 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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