Is there anyway to set the default font in the editor windows so that when I paste the small print web content to the window the text will appear as the font set in the window? At present, I have to highlight the entire pasted text and change the font.

The default paste in the topic editor uses the RTF or Rich Text Format. That will always copy text in the font and format that you copied from.

If you use “Paste Plain Text” operation, it will paste the text in your document’s default font. But, it won’t preserve rich text attributes like colors, bold, italic, etc. If that is not ok with you, you have to select the entire pasted text and change the font manually.