Font type keeps changing

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  goldenvalley · Member · Jan 2, 2009 at 9:43 pm

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  I post my posts in Century Gothic, writing them in Microsoft Word first and them pasting them into WordPress. I have been doing this for a long time with no problems.

  For my last post WordPress changed it into Times New Roman. (leaving one paragraph of century gothic – http://www.wintersmith.wordpress.com) I have also noticed that if I press edit on previous posts that when the edit screen opens it has converted all my Century Gothic to Times New Roman.

  Have they changed something recently on WordPress which could ahve caused this and how can I change it back?

  Megan

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Jan 2, 2009 at 10:45 pm

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  You don’t seem to know your fonts very well. From “Chapter 33” on, your posts aren’t in Century Gothic but in Verdana. And there’s no Times New Roman in your latest post: that’s Arial.

  You THINK you’ve been doing this with no problems, but the code of your posts is a mess.

  Why not to use Word

  Word doesn’t speak internet language. You should write your texts in a plain text editor, or, if you use Word, paste them via the “Paste as Plain Text” button, THEN format them. The code for changing the font (in the html post editor) is this:
  <div style="font-family:century gothic;">YOUR_TEXT_HERE</div>
  (“div” is for text sections. Could be “p” instead of div, for single paragraphs, or “span”, for any text portion.)

  If you want to format your posts outside the post editor, use Windows Live Writer instead of Word.

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  goldenvalley · Member · Jan 12, 2009 at 9:51 am

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  Thanks for all your help. I have been changing the code in the html editor after pasting and that works.