Tips on changing the default font in Mac Office

[GeneXus]

Set the default font
1. If your document already contains text formatted with the properties
you want to use, select that text.
2. On the Format menu, click Font.
3. Select the options you want to apply to the default font. If you
selected text in step 1, the properties you want will appear in the
dialog box.
4. Click Default.
Any new document you open will use the font settings you selectedTip
The default font applies to new documents based on the active template.
Different templates might use different default font settings.

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Any new document you open will use the font settings you selectedTip
The default font applies to new documents based on the active template.
Different templates might use different default font settings.

Why not simply open the tempplate for the current file (eg: Normal.dot),
select all, change the font to what you want and save....

Corentin

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Set the default font

Note that while this may be a good tip for Mac Word, it isn't applicable
to the rest of "Mac Office", as the subject suggests.

Though PowerPoint has the "Default for new text objects" checkbox in the
Font dialog, neither Entourage nor Excel have anything like this feature.

 

[JE McGimpsey]

Why not simply open the tempplate for the current file (eg: Normal.dot),
select all, change the font to what you want and save....

Well, for one thing, that would change the font in all the styles in
that template, not just the default (Normal) one...

The OP's method actually requires one more step - saving the document
template (which may be automatic if it's Normal and the prefs are set to
automatically save Normal, but will not be automatic if it's a different
template).

To me, that makes deliberately opening the template and making only the
required changes, then saving the template, the way to go.

Of course, I (almost) never use Normal for a document template, and I
(almost) never use the Normal style, or any styles based on the Normal
style, either. So the OP's method wouldn't affect my documents at all.

And FWIW, I can't use the OP's method at all, unless I start Word with
the Shift key down. My startup add-ins replace the menu bar with one
that has only the commands I need, and Format/Font never appears in any
of my startup configurations (nor does Format/Paragraph, or
Format/Bullets and Numbering..., Font/, etc.).

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Well, for one thing, that would change the font in all the styles in
that template, not just the default (Normal) one...

Very true, but I thought it was the point (I may have misunderstood the
original post)

The OP's method actually requires one more step - saving the document
template (which may be automatic if it's Normal and the prefs are set to
automatically save Normal, but will not be automatic if it's a different
template).

To me, that makes deliberately opening the template and making only the
required changes, then saving the template, the way to go.

That's what I would have thought.


Corentin