

The text now appears as, say, Arial 11pt. When it arrives in the recipient document, the formatting changes.

For example, you have some text in Times New Roman 12pt, and you copy it into another document. When you copy text, the format of the text can change.


Most web page authors tend to hang around the size 3 - size 5 range for normal reading purposes (depending on the font style) but may increase the font size for headers and titles. This can turn viewers away from your web page, especially if the whole page is filled with text like this (Arial size="6"). On the other hand, text that is too big can have the effect of 'shouting'. Text that is too small can be difficult and sometimes even impossible to read (Arial size="1"). So what size text should you use? This is partly a matter of taste and partly a matter of necessity and can also depend on what font style you use. Once you've tried to debug a web page stuffed to the gills with this kind of useless source code á la etcetera, ad nauseum, you may give some second thoughts as to how "easy" some WYSIWYG editors really are. No sizing will be applied to this text.while this text will appear at size 6.
