Aaarrrggghh! I HATE using Microsoft Word. I consider myself pretty skilled when using the MS Office Products, but I don’t know how to fix this one.
MS Word 2003
I have a document that I wrote. I decided to put a cover page on the document, so I pressed <ctrl> <Home>, then <ctrl><Enter> to force a page break. I then selected a bigger font and typed in the first line of my title. When I pressed <enter> to type in the second line, the font had switched back to the default font.
I don’t WANT to switch back to the default font, I don’t want to change the default font for text that will only be on the first page, and I don’t want to press <Shift> <enter>. All I want is to be able to change the font where I’m typing, and have it stay in that font until I move to a different part of the document that is using a different font, or until I choose to change it myself.
Is that too much to ask?
… oh and God help you if you want have a long document. I’ve never seen a quality Word document yet over a 100 pages.
Why are you using it? You could type in a decent word processor and even if it needs to end up in Word because Word people need to be able to open it, just use a translator to convert it to Word format. The results may not look as nice as what you started out with, but they probably won’t be any worse than if you’d actually tried to create it in Word.
I’ve got Word 2003 and did the same thing you did. My font choice stayed the same. Of course Word capitalized the first letter of each line’s string, which I didn’t want. :smack: I guess I’ve gotten used to it; I just type the content and format as needed afterward.
I don’t use Word either (I use Abiword) but have used it in the past.
There will be, on the formatting toolbar, a box with “Normal” in it.
Select one of the alternatives (Chapter Heading, for instance) and it should do the trick.
One of the attributes of a paragraph in Word, is what font is applied for the subsequent paragraph. I’d probably do what Gigi does and type the content and then format it. The Microsoft way would be to create your font and then in, I think it’s the paragraph settings, specify that the font is to stay the same in the next paragraph. If you’re using one of the “Heading” fonts, it will default back to normal once you start a new paragraph. MS Word considers a new paragraph to be started when you hit ENTER once.
I’m guessing that the last two posts are correct - the top line of the document is formatted as a certain style, “Heading 1” for example. The definition of that style has a rule saying that when you create the line below it will be a different style, and that different style will be a different font.
Bottom line - check the styles for the paragraphs you are typing.