Font/sizes 'taking over' fields on other layouts?

[richgrand]

Please forgive the newbie-ness of this question!

I have mailing labels formatted in 12-point Times in one layout ... I go to another layout which has a larger and more readable font (for data entry) and edit the contents of a couple of fields in a record ... now, when I go back to the mailing label format, that larger font and size (from the data entry layout) has 'taken over' the formatting in those fields I edited on the mailing label -- even though the field itself is still showing (under the "Format" menu) that it is in Times 12-point!

I have found no way to undo this behavioure unless I export all affected records and re-import them, specifying "no formatting" when importing them. This is obviously totally kludgy, and I would really appreciate hearing from a FileMaker expert out there how to 'unformat' a field that gets changed in this way.

I am using versions 4.0 and 3.0 of FileMaker.

Thanks in advance!

Rich.

[Vaughan]

Is the data being entered in a larger font, or is it being formatted in-field using the text format commands? Either of these will over-ride the layout formatting. The best bet is not to format entered text at all, leave it to the layout formatting.

To get rid of the unwanted formatting you could copy and paste the text back into the field using the paste without style option. A looped script will do the whole database in a few moments.