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Is it possible to prevent Word 2007 changing the font settings of every new thing I type?

I have a Word 2007 document and have all the font set up how I want it and I use it as a template. When I come to overtyping bits I want updating, Word 2007 changes the colour and the font type of what I'm putting in from what's there already. The help manual with Word 2007 doesn't help me and neither does Google. Can anyone help here? Is there a way of turning these annoying features off in Word 2007 and if so how do you do it? There are other bugs I notice but I don't have space to list them all here. Thanks Just wondering also if there are any websites helping users with other problems they face in Word 2007 which aren't covered the conventional ways? Thanks

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1. Check your default settings. Usually they're something like Tacoma. A font I don't care for. Go to Help and type in "Default settings" or "Change default font" Hope this helps
2. Try changing the "Normal" style for the document. This determines the default font settings for normal text in the document. (You can also change the style for various headings, or define your own styles to apply to parts of the document, but for now, just change the "Normal" style.) In Word 2003, you could get this up by going to "Styles and Formatting". I don't have a copy of Word 2007, but I imagine the naming is similar.
3. Your comment about changing "the colour and the font type of what I'm putting in from what's there already." makes me wonder if you might have Track Changes turned on. That tends to put in a different color for the new text. Try this: 1.Click the Review tab on the Ribbon. 2.In the Tracking group, if the Track Changes icon is selected, deselect it. This is your problem. 3.In the Changes group, click the arrow under "Accept". 4.Click Accept All Changes In Document. This should get rid of the color and, hopefully, font changes. Hope that helps.