I could hardly find anything related in the big web. Anything I was typing, I had to select and format manually.ĭoing the usual research with web search engines, I found that this issue is not really a know one. So this was not an issue of not having a working Arial or Georgia font installed. When I selected the text of my changes and clicked on the format template 'Normal' (or whatever template element that was appropriate), everything was corrected, ending up with the correct fonts.

This holds true for the original characters and for the characters I inserted. Placing my cursor in the document in an paragraph correctly showed me that it is based on 'Normal' template (or whatever template element it was set in). When I typed in a blue heading 1 which was set in Georgia 14pt, I ended up with having blue TMR 14pt heading 1. So when I typed in an word set in Arial 12pt, I got TMR 12pt for my newly typed characters. On further investigation, I found out that size and font color was used correctly from the given document/template/formatting but the font itself was Times New Roman (TNR) all the time. When I am started a new dotx file, everything I was typing was in Times New Roman instead of the pre-defined font. When I opened any given docx file in my Word (Office Professional Plus 2016) and I started to type within an existing paragraph which is set in - let's say Arial font, I end up with my characters set in Times New Roman. Spoiler: it re-appeared and could not be fixed for good. I had a very stupid issue with Word 2016 on my office computer and this my story about the journey to solve it which took me a couple of months.

: Yet another link to a potential solution in 'Further Approaches'.

: Section 'Problem Reappearing (Again)'.

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