Illustration © Subscribe to Attorney at Work However, once you reset your default fonts, at least your days of adjusting the fonts every time you start a document are behind you.Ĭlick here to read more of Deborah’s Microsoft Office tips. This doesn’t affect documents you receive from others or any existing documents you created. Now Every New Document You Start in Word Will Use the Microsoft Office Fonts You Prefer Save everything you’ve done by clicking Set as Default on the Design tab (next to the Colors and Fonts buttons). Word will ask whether you want to make this the default for this document only or for all future documents based on the Normal template. Select +Body and the size text you want, then click Set as Default in the lower left-hand corner. Go to the Home tab and click on the small launcher arrow in the lower right-hand corner of the font section to go to the Font dialog box. Once you reset the font style, the default text size is an easy fix, too. Then you can name your preferred font set before clicking Save. Just use the drop-down for each to find a font more to your liking. This is where you set the two Styles I told you about earlier, +Body and +Headings, which in turn control basic settings for many of the other Styles in a Word document. On the left, you’ll see Heading font and Body font. That’s going to take you into the Create New Theme Fonts dialog box. From here, you want to choose Customize Fonts. Clicking on Fonts will give you a list of preconfigured font sets. Over on the far right is a drop-down called Fonts. These settings are found in the Design tab (introduced into Microsoft Word with version 2013). Fortunately, you can permanently change just two Styles (+Body and +Headings) to give your documents a more businesslike typeface. One of the most persistent frustrations legal users have with Microsoft Word fonts is the default font settings. Although you will be able to change the typeface in the current document, the next time you create a new blank document, the font will automatically be set to Calibri.If you’re sick of MicroSoft word fonts Calibri and Cambria, change your default heading and body styles so you can start every new Word document with the fonts you prefer. Note that you cannot change the default font if you are using Word Online. If you only want to change the typeface in the open document, follow the same instructions but choose the “This document only” option in step 5. The default font will now be changed in the open document and any future blank documents you create. Click “OK” to save the changes and close the Font dialog box.In the dialog box that appears, choose the “All documents based on the Normal template” option.In the Font dialog box, select your preferred typeface and any other settings you want to change (e.g., font size).Right-click somewhere in the document and choose “Font”.If it is not your preferred default font, you can change it.Ĭhanging the default typeface in Word 2010 and later versions is easy: This is convenient only if Calibri is the font you want to use. When you create a new blank document in Microsoft Word, the application automatically sets the typeface to Calibri.