Mario, I believe you've pretty much solved your problem, but either for your benefit or for someone else's, let me clarify the two steps I take to set font and line spacing. I note that your current post includes a query about "mixed font and mixed style," which these steps resolve.
The surprisingly useful Word 2010 format dialog has the innocuous name of "paragraph." Actually, the settings you make here cover any selected text, including selection of an entire document. It also enables you to make your settings your default. Select the text you wish to format. In your case, you want your settings to apply to current and future documents, so perhaps best to select all with control-a. Then press the applications key followed by p. From here, you tab through your options. The second and third are for left and right margins, which I leave at 0.0. The fifth is for paragraph indent. If you want paragraphs indented by a tab, arrow up to 0.5. Otherwise, leave at 0.0, the left margin. You then encounter two settings where I've found it best to set 0 point, as opposed to 10 point, etc. this has to do with the distance between lines. Then you get to line spacing. Here's where your "mixed" issues come into play. Arrow up through the options. The most common ones, of course, are single and double. Select and keep tabbing. The next possibly useful item is "set as default," one tab before the Okay button. Check with the spacebar if you want your settings to be the default. Then tab to Okay and press either enter or spacebar. Note that you can use this same dialog if you want part of your document formatted differently. For example, when I'm indenting text, I set my margins at 0.5 and my paragraph indentation at 0.0. I also single-space. Your format change will affect only the text you select. Naturally, you wouldn't make this your default. In my previous message, I indicated how I handle font style, size and color. I said to shift-tab from your color selection to the Okay button simply because forward tabbing takes forever. -----Original Message----- From: Mario [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 3:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: word 2010, making changes stick Adrian, I'm wanting to establish all the changes as default for all future documents. I didn't know you have to shift+tab out of the grid after selecting the color? On 1/29/2016 3:30 PM, Adrian Spratt wrote: > Mario, I'm assuming you're going into the word 2010 font dialog. I go in > there frequently to change font type and size, after which pressing enter > preserves my settings for that document. If I want to change color, however, > once I've made the selection, I need to shift-tab back to Okay. Does that > answer your question? Or are you asking how you can establish all these > settings as your Word 2010 default for all documents you create? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mario [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, January 29, 2016 2:43 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: word 2010, making changes stick > > when I open word 2010 to type a letter and if I check the font size, > color, justification, etc. I get white on white as the color. I can > change it to black on white, but how do I get the change to persist so I > don't have to change the settings every time word is run? > > > > > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- JFW related links: JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ JFW List instructions: To post a message to the list, send it to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to [email protected] Archives located at: http://www.groups.io/g/jfw/threads Alternative archives located at: http://n2.nabble.com/JAWS-for-Windows-f2145279.html If you have any concerns about the list, posts received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at [email protected]. -=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View This Message (#37626): https://groups.io/g/jfw/message/37626 Mute This Thread: https://groups.io/mt/559060?uid=21656 Change Your Subscription: https://groups.io/g/jfw/editsub?uid=21656 Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/jfw/leave/46502/1292106160/xyzzy Group Home: https://groups.io/g/jfw Contact Group Owner: [email protected] Terms of Service: https://groups.io/static/tos -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
