Default font in formatting palette (themes)

[Jack_s_Grandpa]

Just upgraded from Word2004 to Word2008. Platform is a MacPro using Tiger (soon to upgrade to Leopard).
In my Word2004 formatting palette I had Times New Roman as the default, In Word2008 the default shows up as Cambria (Theme Body). Can not find the Preference selection to restore TNR. No matter how many times I select TNR for a current document, Cambria shows up as default with every next new document.
What am I missing?

 

[John McGhie]

Hi Jack's Grandpa:

1) You need to use Format>Styles and Formatting>Modify>Font to change the
font on your Normal style. When you do, you need to hit "Add to Template"
in the second dialog box on the way out, so your change is written back to
your Normal template and is thus available for all other documents.

Your Normal style sets up the properties that are inherited by all the other
styles in the document.

2) I wouldn't change it. Cambria is "the new black" of the Microsoft Word
world. And it's a nice font that doesn't look as scrunched and hard to read
as the one that was invented a hundred years ago by the London Times so they
could squish more words into a column of newsprint

3) If you do change it, your document themes (if you use them) may not
produce nice results. Whether they do or not currently, is a matter I will
leave you to debate

4) For god's sake don't upgrade the OS until we tell you. Lie is too short
for the extra bugs you get in Leopard! Being an "early adopter" in this
business is like volunteering in the Army -- something you encourage 'other
people' to do.

Check back with us next week: there's a patch due out for Office 2008 on
March 11th. By March 15th we should have some idea whether it fixes the
Leopard bugs (or rather: which ones it does NOT fix...)

I have not moved up to OS 10.5, and I probably won't until Service Pack 2
comes out at the end of the year: I depend on Office for my business -- I
can't afford to be off the air waiting for Apple and Microsoft to start
talking to one another

Hope this helps

Just upgraded from Word2004 to Word2008. Platform is a MacPro using Tiger
(soon to upgrade to Leopard).
In my Word2004 formatting palette I had Times New Roman as the default, In
Word2008 the default shows up as Cambria (Theme Body). Can not find the
Preference selection to restore TNR. No matter how many times I select TNR for
a current document, Cambria shows up as default with every next new document.
What am I missing?

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[Harold Cheney Jr]

Thanks John. I was able to get TNR up at the head of the font menu and checked. Sorry that I did not get to read your caution. We have upgraded to Leopard with no catastrophes (yet).
By the way John, in 1968 I took R&R from VietNam with a week in Sydney. The new opera house was just under construction. I expect the town has changed a bit in forty years.

Jack's Grandpa (Jack is one of our cats) -- Jack of Tabbyshire)

 

[John McGhie]

Oh, well, of course... You are owned by a cat. Dog's have masters, cats
have staff, I know this.

Yeah, well we built the Opera House, and now it's leaking and falling down.
Shoulda had it Made in China

Yeah, there have been one or two changes. I will think of one that was for
the better if you give me a day or two

However, you could still do pretty much the same things in Kings Cross that
you did in 1968. Since this is a family newspaper, we better not go into
detail. Suffice to say that Carlotta died the other day (of old age!) and
half the town turned out to her funeral

You take care

Thanks John. I was able to get TNR up at the head of the font menu and
checked. Sorry that I did not get to read your caution. We have upgraded to
Leopard with no catastrophes (yet).
By the way John, in 1968 I took R&R from VietNam with a week in Sydney. The
new opera house was just under construction. I expect the town has changed a
bit in forty years.

Jack's Grandpa (Jack is one of our cats) -- Jack of Tabbyshire)

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John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac
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