you should see a thick selection bar instead of a cursor (and that bar should not disappear while you are changing the font size). If no text exists yet, select all by double-clicking within your text area. You can solve the problem of the font size changing back to default by first selecting all text. The fact that it is switching back means only one thing - that you are not selecting your entire workspace (all text) before changing the font size to 12. “I use WordPad quite a lot and even when I manually change the font size it invariably switches back to a “10” in the process of writing, etc.” However, there is a way to solve your problem by changing the way you are doing things. I really don’t think you’re gonna want to know that much about your system just for a problem with WordPad. Because WordPad uses defaults set by your overall configuration rather than having its own set of defaults, you can’t change the default in WordPad permanently unless you’re a serious Windows programming wizard.
