A question for the Word experts...

I want to paste the text of a web page inside a Word document, and then 
to scale the size of the whole text. The difficulty is that the text 
contains different fonts, with different sizes (and I need to keep those 
different fonts and size for readability). If I select the whole text, I 
cannot change the size of the fonts (because it is a mix). Is there a 
way to scale all the fonts size down (without selecting individually 
each font, which would be tedious)?   It sounds easy, it is maybe 
stupid, but I have not found a way so far.

Thanks for any help,


Thibaut

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And lo on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:03:50 +0100, Thibaut Jonckheere  
<tua### [at] MAPSONyahoofr> did spake, saying:

> A question for the Word experts...
>
> I want to paste the text of a web page inside a Word document, and then  
> to scale the size of the whole text. The difficulty is that the text  
> contains different fonts, with different sizes (and I need to keep those  
> different fonts and size for readability). If I select the whole text, I  
> cannot change the size of the fonts (because it is a mix). Is there a  
> way to scale all the fonts size down (without selecting individually  
> each font, which would be tedious)?   It sounds easy, it is maybe  
> stupid, but I have not found a way so far.

Select all the text you want to scale. Hold down the Ctrl+Shift keys and  
use the < > to scale down or up respectively.

-- 
Phil Cook

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> And lo on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:03:50 +0100, Thibaut Jonckheere 
> <tua### [at] MAPSONyahoofr> did spake, saying:
> 
>> A question for the Word experts...
>>
>> I want to paste the text of a web page inside a Word document, and 
>> then to scale the size of the whole text. The difficulty is that the 
>> text contains different fonts, with different sizes (and I need to 
>> keep those different fonts and size for readability). If I select the 
>> whole text, I cannot change the size of the fonts (because it is a 
>> mix). Is there a way to scale all the fonts size down (without 
>> selecting individually each font, which would be tedious)?   It sounds 
>> easy, it is maybe stupid, but I have not found a way so far.
> 
> Select all the text you want to scale. Hold down the Ctrl+Shift keys and 
> use the < > to scale down or up respectively.
> 
> --Phil Cook
>

	Thanks a lot !

For some reason I do not understand, it works only to scale down (and 
not to scale up), but this is what I need now, so I am not going to 
investigate too much :-) .


Thibaut

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> 
> For some reason I do not understand, it works only to scale down (and 
> not to scale up), but this is what I need now, so I am not going to 
> investigate too much :-) .


Well, I did investigate a little bit though. By looking at the list of 
all keyboards commands, I can see that the 'scale down font' is defined 
on my system (CTRL+SHIFT+<), but not the 'scale up'.


Thibaut

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And lo on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:32:09 +0100, Thibaut Jonckheere  
<tua### [at] MAPSONyahoofr> did spake, saying:


>> And lo on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:03:50 +0100, Thibaut Jonckheere  
>> <tua### [at] MAPSONyahoofr> did spake, saying:
>>
>>> A question for the Word experts...
>>>
>>> I want to paste the text of a web page inside a Word document, and  
>>> then to scale the size of the whole text.
>>
>>  Select all the text you want to scale. Hold down the Ctrl+Shift keys  
>> and use the < > to scale down or up respectively.
>
> 	Thanks a lot !

De nada if it's something you use a lot and can't recall the shortcut then  
there are two commands you can add to the toolbar called Shrink Font and  
Grow Font.

> For some reason I do not understand, it works only to scale down (and  
> not to scale up), but this is what I need now, so I am not going to  
> investigate too much :-) .

Odd, but at least it's scaling the right way for you :-)

-- 
Phil Cook

--
I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
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