Word 2010 Starter font question

[Osem]

Hi. I've been playing around and found a rather attractive open type font in Win 7 called Gabriola which can be tweaked to create some really attractive 'arty' script effects. I want to change some document text to a different version of this font but the problem is that although I can highlight the appropriate text, adapt the font via the 'advanced'/'open type' options in the fonts tab and can see it change accordingly in the preview box, I can't seem to apply it to the text I have highlighted in my document. Clicking on 'OK' or 'set as default' doesn't seem to do anything and the text I've highlighted remains the same.

I'm new to Word and can't see what I'm doing wrong don't have enough hair to keep pulling it out!

Can anyone put me out of my misery?

Cheers as always.

[cookie_365]

Clicking OK should apply your changes to the selected text.

Have you maybe got a style allocated to the text that is overriding what you're doing?

[Osem]

Originally Posted by cookie_365

Clicking OK should apply your changes to the selected text.

Have you maybe got a style allocated to the text that is overriding what you're doing?

Thanks for the reply. Yes I thought clicking OK should do the trick but it doesn't so I think maybe something is overriding what I'm doing but I don't know anything about styles as I'm new to Word. How would I check this and alter the style to allow this font to be displayed?

TVM

[cookie_365]

In regular Word 2010 press CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+S to bring up the Styles pane.

That'll tell you what style is allocated to the text. At the bottom of that pane is a button to show the Style Inspector; that'll in addition tell you if any other manual formatting has been applied on top of the style and has options to clear any direct formatting and reset to the Normal style.

You can also clear all direct formatting by selecting text and pressing CTRL+SHIFT.

I don't know if that also works on Starter.

[progers]

Just tried at this end OK.

Highlight a line of text, then from the font section of the home tab, just select your font from the drop down box and it should change

[Osem]

Originally Posted by cookie_365

In regular Word 2010 press CTRL+ALT+SHIFT+S to bring up the Styles pane.

That'll tell you what style is allocated to the text. At the bottom of that pane is a button to show the Style Inspector; that'll in addition tell you if any other manual formatting has been applied on top of the style and has options to clear any direct formatting and reset to the Normal style.

You can also clear all direct formatting by selecting text and pressing CTRL+SHIFT.

I don't know if that also works on Starter.

Yes it was the style associated with the document which was causing the problem. I opened a brand new document, selected the default style and entered some text then tried to tweak the Gabriola font I'd selected and it worked perfectly. The wife has now got quite a professionaland artistic looking flyer to advertise her business when she's ready.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

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Originally Posted by progers

Just tried at this end OK.

Highlight a line of text, then from the font section of the home tab, just select your font from the drop down box and it should change

Yes, that was working for the normal fonts but not the Gabriola font because it has various artistic tweaks which can be applied separately but were being blocked. Problem solved now anyway. Thanks for the input.

[cookie_365]

Originally Posted by Osem

Yes it was the style associated with the document which was causing the problem. I opened a brand new document, selected the default style and entered some text then tried to tweak the Gabriola font I'd selected and it worked perfectly. The wife has now got quite a professionaland artistic looking flyer to advertise her business when she's ready.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

You're welcome