How do I make Arial rather than Times Roman the font?

[Antonyp32]

At the moment, when I start to type in a new document, the font is
automatically Times Roman, when I would much prefer to use the Font Arial.
How do I change it? It's no use altering the default setting, for example.

 

[Anne Troy]

What do you mean, "it's no use"?
Open Word to a blank document. Hit Ctrl+A. Go to Format-->Font and change to
Arial. Hit the DEFAULT button, and hit OK.
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[Mary]

Open a new blank document, go to Format, Font, choose Arial & size etc, click
the Default button, say yes to all the warnings, including the one to change
Normal. dot.

 

[Nick]

I have the same problem. If I change the default font to something other
than Times, next time I start Word it reverts back to Times! This never used
to happen.

Nick

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/CustomizeNormalTemplate.htm

 

[smokymtnmom]

I am having the same problem, and trying to make the new format settings the
default is not working

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Do you have Acrobat 7 installed? If so, see the last part of
http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adobe_acrobat_toolbar.htm

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Repeating my reply of several hours earlier, which seems to have got lost:

Do you have Acrobat 7 installed? If so, see the last part of
http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adobe_acrobat_toolbar.htm

 

[Graham Mayor]

It shows up here - oddly a lot of your posts today have been duplicated?

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I was afraid of that. I couldn't see them so I thought they didn't post.
There has evidently been some problem with one of the servers. Other users
are reporting getting "Message is not available" messages (I saw that on
some day before yesterday).