Ms word question

[DGUtley]

Why is it that when I copy and past something within the same document it changes font? How can I stop that?

[Kacper]

https://support.office.com/en-us/art...0-fb9ce15bf3d6

Paste options.

[DGUtley]

Thanks. I just changed them, we'll see. Getting ready for a trial and I hate when things jump around...

[Kacper]

You are supposed to get your secretary out of bed on Sunday morning and make her drive to your house and fix your word settings like all good addle minded lawyers do

I had autocorrect for reasons known but to God decide to randomly change the word "not" to "nor" everywhere it appeared in a 40 page brief after the program was reinstalled and didn't realize it until I was standing there arguing a motion. It was a bit of a distraction.

We have an OCR program called Omnipage that is horrible about changing every attributes of things cut and pasted out of it into a doc. We park things in their own doc until we clean it up or otherwise we may end up totally screwing up the destination doc beyond repair with unfixable quadruple spacing, etc. Worth the time though because it saves a crapload of typing.

[DGUtley]

What I do is type my cross or direct questions and then copy and paste from the depo into my outline, for example:

MRS. JONES, HOW MUCH HAVE YOU EARNED FOR YOUR OPINIONS IN THIS CASE?

Page 9, Line: 21 Q. Can you tell us what you've billed in total
Page 9, Line: 22 for this case so far?
Page 9, Line: 23 A. I don't know exactly. As far as hours go
Page 9, Line: 24 or dollar amount?

When I was a baby lawyer, I handwrote everything and once paraphrased incorrectly (and ate it), so for the past 20 years for so I go the long route. It's quicker, tighter and I'm not stumbling around for the information to cross the witness on b/c it's in my outline right there verbatim.

[Kacper]

Yeah I can't read my own handwriting and hand-written notes often make no sense to me ten minutes after I write them as I do them rather randomly to begin with using only keywords so that has never been an issue for me. Fortunately I have a fantastic memory for spoken word so I get things in the computer ASAP. I have a paralegal who writes microscopically in cursive and 3 out of every 4 times she writes something on a doc I have to come get her to interpret those mouse tracks of hers

[Captdon]

It's usually from using a font different from your default. Change the default in options or use the default.