Submitted by David_H on 2017/03/07 15:22
If I want to change the font in the HTML pane I often find it impossible.  I can highlight some text and change it, only to have it change back to the default the moment I start typing new text.  It's maddening.
 
Since as far as I know it's not possible to just change to plain text, how can I just change the font and made it stick?  I know how to change it permanently, I'm asking about when I want to change it for a particular item.
 
Thanks

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Strange, it works just fine here:
  1. Ctrl + A
  2. Set font size
  3. Type so text
Can you provide exact steps to reproduce it ?
 
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

I've been doing it successfully quite a bit lately.
Dont think there's anything special about how, but here it is anyways:
 
Select text, right click, click on Font (ignore the arrow leading to sub-options)
A full formatting dialogue opens.
 
That sticks (here)
IQ 92
Windows 7 x64
IE 11.0.9600.xxxx
 
Could be to do with your IE version?
 
 
PS I (really) presume you're aware to
Ensure that:
  • it is HTML (not MHT -- if MHT go File >New HTML doc & accept default choice in dialogue)
  • it is not in browse mode: Context menu >Browse Mode

Tom, you're a lifesaver!  I always select the sub-options and adjust the font from there.  I didn't even know the main option was clickable as expanding arrows usually can't be clicked on.  Anyhow, when making the change from the main font dialog it stuck.
 
BTW, I may not have explained myself well in the first post.  It's not that I couldn't select text and change it.  It's that after I did so, the moment I would start to type NEW text it would go back to the default.

Tom

2017/03/08 06:15

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[quote=David_H]I always select the sub-options and adjust the font from there.  I didn't even know the main option was clickable as expanding arrows usually can't be clicked on.[/quote]Yeah,
I tend to forget that I can click on the main option when there's sub-options: apparently it is a (new?) standard on MS software, but I dont use any MS software, so it's taken me a while to train myself in there.
 

Pierre_Admin

2017/03/08 11:03

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[quote=Tom]
I tend to forget that I can click on the main option when there's sub-options: apparently it is a (new?) standard on MS software
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Not exactly new... Split buttons were there in MS Office... 2002 !  
 
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer
 

Pierre_Admin

2017/03/08 11:07

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[quote=David_H]
BTW, I may not have explained myself well in the first post.  It's not that I couldn't select text and change it.  It's that after I did so, the moment I would start to type NEW text it would go back to the default.
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I'm still not able to reproduce it. If you can provide a video or exact steps (sample IQBase), I'd very much want to fix that annoying bug
 
Pierre_Admin
IQ Designer