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HDFan

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When I am entering a post I sometimes hit some key combination which changes the font from this to a very small one. Since I'm typing fast I don't know what key combination is causing this to happen. It would also be nice to know the key combination that would result in restoring the font size to normal.
 
When I am entering a post I sometimes hit some key combination which changes the font from this to a very small one. Since I'm typing fast I don't know what key combination is causing this to happen. It would also be nice to know the key combination that would result in restoring the font size to normal.

I suspect that you may be hitting the "T!" key by mistake; the "T!" key is found in the bar (touch bar, the one with commands, including whether you want your post be be bolded, in italics, underlined, or other commands) - above the box where you are typing your post.

This governs the size of the font used, from tiny (which is "1", to very large and legible, which is "6",) as you can see for yourself when you actually click on it.
 
I suspect that you may be hitting the "T!" key by mistake; the "T!" key is found in the bar (touch bar, the one with commands, including whether you want your post be be bolded, in italics, underlined, or other commands) - above the box where you are typing your post.

I'm not sure what the "T!" key is. I am typing on an external Logitech keyboard on an iMac - rather critical information which I omitted. My sense is that whatever key combination that I am hitting it is on the lower part of the keyboard. My mouse is not being used, so I am not clicking on the "T!" icon in the post header bar.

Maybe another wording is better. Is there a keyboard key combination which changes the font size?
 
The T! is the text size button in the WYSIWYG editor. I had similar issues, too, across Windows and Mac and couldn't figure out what was happening because I couldn't replicate it on other XF sites. I ended up disabling the editor and use the plain-text one, now. Try that.
 
The default text size is 3, is it not? It might be useful if there was a "remove all formatting" button.
 
There is, sort of. If you do a "select all" (Cmd-A) then the Remove Formatting button (on the right) will apply to the entire post.
 
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