Agnostus wrote:Hi, Mark,
thanks for your advice. I guess I will send Nisus a copy of the document.
However I have found a bizarre workaround for this bizarre probelm. I saved the RTF in Nisus (even with the Helvetica font), then opened it in Word - surprisingly, no Helvetica here, but exactly the formatting I specified. I then saved the RTF in Word again and reopened it in Nisus. Now everything is fine. It is very weird! It seems to be matter of the file-DISPLAY rather then what's in the file.
Martin
My suspicion is that you ended up with a whole string of nested font tags at various points in the document, and that each time you were trying to change it, all you were doing was adding yet another. The other way to try and solve this kind of problem--I had it early in the 2.6 betas, I think it was--is to click on the font tag in the status line at the bottom and choose <remove font> from the menu that pops up. That should remove extra font tags, leaving only the one set by the style sheet; doing the same with the style tag will remove nested styles, so you can clean it up like that.
One of the thing I hate about Word documents, particularly ones produced by people who know nothing about style-sheets and templates, is that they come with about 150 useless style definitions cluttering the thing up. For that reason, on opening a Word document, I now automatically select all, change the language to British English--Word sets the language throughout according to the Windows system language, which in the case of the docs I handle is almost always Chinese ... so if I don't make the change and try to edit the English, it is the Chinese keyboard and editing system that comes up!--and then copy and paste it into a new document selecting "Keep existing styles". In that way, I'm in full control, with my styles and font settings, and if I need to add any or change any, NWE makes it easy.
Mark