Hi Marshall
May I offer a suggestion?
Open a New message.
Click in the message area.
Select the Options Tab.
Click Fonts, then Create new Theme Fonts from the bottom of the fly out menu.
Set the Fonts to Times New Roman and enter a name before clicking Save.
Now Select, Change Styles from the Format Text tab.
Choose Font and your newly created Theme Font.
Click Change Styles again and select Set as Default.
Close the message, there’s no need to Save.
You have now set you New message form to use Times New Roman as the desired font in the message area.
Click New to test it.
Now Click File in the Outlook Main Window, and select Options.
Select Mail and click the Editor Options button.
Now click Advanced.
Scroll down to the Cut, copy and paste section.
Change the options in first 4 drop down boxes as required.
Setting them to "Keep text only", will cause the copied text to revert to the default in your message. Doing this you may lose some formatting!
Click OK.
In answer to you first post it depends on how you set Word’s default font.
Office 2010 uses themes to create consistency between the applications, forcing one to do something does not necessarily mean it will do the same
in the others unless you tackle the issue at Theme level.
Many of the old solutions to setting fonts are not necessarily valid.
One other thing to watch for is the paste button which will appear, near the bottom right of your pasted text, after pasting.
This button allows you to change the options on how the text is pasted, so if you get something you don’t like you can change between the options to see which is best.