I'm typing a big document and every once in a while I hit something on the keyboard (seems to be around the right arrow key or the Ins "0" button on the number keypad) that switches the font of the paragraph I'm typing from Times New Roman to Liberation Serif.

Two questions:

#1) What is causing this?

I can switch the font back of course when I find it, but this is a 47,000 word doc and it will be quite the challenge to visually locate the Liberation Serif (many of the paragraphs are only a line). I opened a new doc and typed an "a" in Liberation Serif and copied and pasted that into my Times New Roman doc, hoping it would find any Liberation Serif "a" but it just found any old "a," including Times New Roman "a"s.

#2) Is there a way I can scan my original doc for the Liberation Serif that is in there?

Thanks.

Do you want the entire document in Liberation Serif? If so, you might do Edit-->Select All (or CTRL-a) and then select that font in the font dialog. That should change the font.

You could also try applying the modifying and re-applying the appropriate style. These two podcasts might help:
http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=1345
http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=1405

I took a quick look at some of the options that become available in the "Find" dialog when you select Edit-->Find and Replace, but could not easily find "find by font" method. That doesn't mean it's not there; just that it's not readily apparent.

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Thanks Frank. I want the entire document in Times New Roman. I like your idea of the Ctrl-a and then selecting the font in the font dialog. I'll give it a shot when I get to my other computer. Thanks for the links and 'find by font' too. Appreciate it.

Hope they help. Keep us posted.

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Thanks Frank. I think I'm in pretty good shape now. The Liberation Serif got in there via a keyboard shortcut. (see screenshot). Thanks for the help.

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