The root cause is that RStudio’s output console is hardwired to use monospaced fonts like Consolas, Courier, or Monaco, which preserve column alignment. Times New Roman (TTR), being proportional, breaks that alignment when pasted into Word unless you manually reformat.
From: CALUM POLWART <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2025 5:02 AM To: Viechtbauer, Wolfgang (NP) <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Subia <[email protected]>; [email protected] Subject: Re: [R] Best practice for copying statistical output from RStudio to Word using Times New Roman As Wolfgang says. Ctrl-Shift-V and plain text. That said... I bet some of it looks awful as it's probably spaced for a fixed width font. On Fri, 21 Nov 2025, 10:28 Viechtbauer, Wolfgang (NP) via R-help, <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: Dear Thomas, Just paste without formatting. Then the pasted text will be in the active font of the Word document. Best, Wolfgang > -----Original Message----- > From: R-help <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > On Behalf Of tgs77m--- via R-help > Sent: Friday, November 21, 2025 07:51 > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: [R] Best practice for copying statistical output from RStudio to Word > using Times New Roman > > Colleagues > > I am writing an article using Microsoft Word for a journal that requires > Times New Roman for all text (including tables and statistical outputs). > However, copying console output from RStudio (e.g., summary(lm())) into Word > retains the RStudio monospace font, and Word does not automatically convert > it to Times New Roman. Manually restyling each pasted block is > time-consuming and error-prone. > > s there a recommended workflow for preserving proper alignment while > achieving Times New Roman text formatting when transferring statistical > results from RStudio into Word? > > System: > Windows 11 > R 4.5.1 > RStudio 2024.12.0+ > > Thanks for any guidance or best practices. > > Best regards, > Thomas Subia ______________________________________________ [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide https://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
