R help - Nov 2025 - Best practice for copying statistical output from RStudio to Word using Times New Roman

Dear Thomas,

Just paste without formatting. Then the pasted text will be in the active font
of the Word document.

Best,
Wolfgang
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Friday, November 21, 2025 07:51
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> 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

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, <
r-help at r-project.org> 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 <r-help-bounces at r-project.org> On Behalf Of
tgs77m--- via
> R-help
> > Sent: Friday, November 21, 2025 07:51
> > To: r-help at r-project.org
> > 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
>
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