Controlling Fonts Copying from Word to WordPress
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Your default font on your website ought to be Arial or Verdana. San-Serif fonts are easier to read online (Microsoft did very long studies to determine this fact) than serifed fonts like Times or Garamond. Fonts with serifs (the curlicues you see at the ends of the stroke of the letter) are easier to read in print. Don’t ask me why. If you wrote an article in Microsoft Word and just paste it into WordPress, you may find that your page or post are in Times, not Arial. This happens because the editor in WordPress recognizes the formatting tags that are copied over from your Word document. Here is a sample pasted directly from Word:
Vestibulum urna metus, porttitor eu, cursus ac, porta molestie, turpis. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Nulla nulla neque, elementum id, hendrerit vitae, dictum vitae, ante.
In the code, you will see tags like this:
<span style=”font-family: Garamond;“>
To remedy this, go to your editor toolbar and click on the “Kitchen Sink” control. You should see an icon that looks like a clipboard with a little “w” and square. 
Copy your Word text and click on the editing window. Click this icon, and a window will pop up. Paste your text here then click “Insert”. It will paste your text cleanly.
Vestibulum urna metus, porttitor eu, cursus ac, porta molestie, turpis. Pellentesque habitant morbi tristique senectus et netus et malesuada fames ac turpis egestas. Nulla nulla neque, elementum id, hendrerit vitae, dictum vitae, ante.