Change the default font for text boxes in Powerpoint 2007

[PaulaF]

In the presentations I create it is necessary to add a lot of text boxes to
label figures. Everytime I have to change the font from Times New Roman to
Arial. How can I change the default font so that I don't have to change each
text box? I remember being able to do this in earlier versions of Powerpoint.

Note: I did find how to change the default title and body fonts for my
theme so that is not my issue.

Thanks.
PaulaF

 

[Rae Drysdale]

With nothing highlighted or selected, just change the font to the one you
want. All subsequent text boxes should now be that font/size.

 

[PaulaF]

That doesn't seem to work in PowerPoint 2007. If nothing is selected, I
cannot access the font area in the tool bar.

 

[Rae Drysdale]

Sorry, didn't realise it was 2007 as the heading cut off in the middle of
Powerpoint on my screen. I don't have 2007 on my machine any more - went back
to 2003, but am surprised that you can't access the fonts. Can you access
fonts on the slide master?

 

[PaulaF]

Thank you very much. That does work.

You're right, it's very fiddly. I had tried that trick but all I got was
the copy-move menu. After trying a few times, I finally got a different menu.

It's too bad MicroSoft doesn't put this kind of information in the help
file. It would have saved me a lot of aggravation.

Thanks so much for your help.

Paula

 

[iranal56]

Just to play devil's advocate... So why is 2007 so much more difficult than
previous versions. I had the same question as PaulaF. Setting the default
font was always easy before, now I feel like I spend all my time hunting and
pecking around for things that used to be easy, but now are hard. What MORON
would make their product MORE ONerous to use?

Ed