Trick #1: Stop AutoText from switching to Times New Roman
I often edit files in fonts other than Times New Roman, just because that font is so ubiquitous. And I sometimes use AutoText to insert frequently used phrases, or Romanian words in an English text (so that I don’t have to switch languages constantly). One thing that has always annoyed me is that after invoking an AutoText completion (
F3), the next characters will always be in Times New Roman (even if the AutoText itself is in another font).
As it turns out, this happens because Times New Roman is the font of the Default paragraph style. So hit
F11 and modify your style to use the desired font. In fact (and this is a topic for another day), styles should be used in most cases and formatting a selection of text (bold, italic, font, font size, paragraph indentation) should rarely be done by hand. This is very unintuitive to people who have been using text editors before the GUI era.
Trick #2: Insert Formula without switching into formula-edit mode