Later, if/when you are prompted to save the Normal template, choose to do so. Select 'New documents based on this template' and then click OK. In the dialog box, click the Set Defaults tab. The Office Theme doesn’t change when you reset the default font, so it’s a way to quickly restore what Microsoft determined would be best. Do the following in a new, blank document: In the Styles pane (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S), click the Manage Styles icon. The +Body typeface is tied into the Office Theme, found on the Design tab. If you believe that you’ve made a mistake by choosing the wrong font, you can restore Word’s default: In Step 2, choose the +Body typeface and 11 as the size. Choose All Documents Based on the Normal.dotm Template.įrom this point forward, all new, blank documents you create (use Ctrl+N) feature the updated Normal style with the typeface and size you selected (Step 2). It’s better just to use the Set As Default button.Īfter clicking the button, you see a warning prompt.Ĥ. Sure, you could edit that template directly, but doing so is a pain. Format characters Open the Font dialog box to change the formatting of characters. The Set As Default button is the key to resetting the Normal style in the Normal template. If you want Arial for the font and 12 points for the size, choose those items. Choose the typeface and size you want for all your documents.įor example, if you want Times New Roman at 12 points, set that font and size. Select the font and size you want to use. Go to Home, and then select the Font Dialog Box Launcher. Press Ctrl+D to bring up the Font dialog box.Ģ. To use your favorite font in Word all the time, set it as the default. If you want to reset the Normal template to use that font for all your documents, then follow these steps:ġ. The point size is set to 11.īack in the day, the Normal style typeface was Times New Roman, which many people prefer over the dull Calibri. In Word 2016, the Normal style typeface is set to Calibri, which is Microsoft’s fancy-yet-sans-serif font. When you start a new document with the Normal template, the Normal style is applied to the new document’s only paragraph. The Normal style is the body style, which is preset for all text written in Word. In fact, all templates use Normal as their base document, so there’s a little piece of Normal in everything Word does. The Normal template is the one that Word uses when you start a new document and don’t select a specific template. Ive looked and looked and cannot find a way to change default font and size in the mail app. The “default font” is actually the font set in the Normal style for the Normal template. Browser/Email :: Change Default Font Size In Mail App Feb 23, 2016. The uppercase A and lowercase A that are situated side by side allow you to change the case of selected text. The button is highlighted below.I get this question often and it surprises me that I’ve not written a blog post about it: How do you change the default font in Word? X 2 (highlighted above) is just the opposite, putting smaller text above the text line. This makes creating footnotes easier than it had been with previous versions of Word. This simply puts smaller text below the text line of the normal text. Next to the strikethrough command, you'll see ‘X 2'. Next to the commands for boldfaced, italics, and underline, you'll see an ‘abc' with a line through it. (abc) This is for strikethrough. When clicking on this button, it will put a line through any text you have selected. The button is highlighted below. To add italics, boldfaced, or underlining to any portion of a text within a document, select the desired text, then click the appropriate button (B for boldfaced, I for italic, or U for underline.) These buttons are located directly below the font type window in the Font group under the Home tab. The underline command is represented by an uppercase U with a line under it. Interested in learning more? Why not take an online Microsoft Word 2016 course?