Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!osu-cis!tut!mdf From: mdf@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark D. Freeman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Microsoft Word Formatting Message-ID: <6477@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 12 Feb 88 01:21:17 GMT References: <1921@optilink.UUCP> <877@ima.ISC.COM> Reply-To: mdf@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu.UUCP (Mark D. Freeman) Organization: StrongPoint Systems, Inc.; Columbus, OH. (guest of Ohio State U.) Lines: 44 In <877@ima.ISC.COM> johnl@ima.UUCP (John R. Levine) writes: >In article <1921@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes: >>... Is there a way to force the font and size for >>all characters within a paragraph to match the style of that paragraph? ... > >Yes, though the execrable Word manual is not enormously helpful if you want >to figure it out. Select the whole paragraph, and then type ALT X SPACE. >which is the keyboard command for "normal character" formatting. When you >have a paragraph format set, it uses the default format for the paragraph, >as desired. I think that this is almost true. I believe that ALT X SPACE will set all the characters to the default character format, not the default format for the style. Try ALT space instead. Twice. I don't know why, but sometimes you have to do it twice. s t u p i d i n e w s f e a t u r e -- Mark D. Freeman (614) 262-1418 mdf@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu 2440 Medary Avenue ...!cbosgd!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mdf Columbus, OH 43202-3014 Guest account at The Ohio State University