This doesn’t affect documents you receive from others or any existing documents you created. Now Every New Document You Start in Word Will Use the Microsoft Office Fonts You Prefer Save everything you’ve done by clicking Set as Default on the Design tab (next to the Colors and Fonts buttons). Word will ask whether you want to make this the default for this document only or for all future documents based on the Normal template. Select +Body and the size text you want, then click Set as Default in the lower left-hand corner. Go to the Home tab and click on the small launcher arrow in the lower right-hand corner of the font section to go to the Font dialog box. Once you reset the font style, the default text size is an easy fix, too. Then you can name your preferred font set before clicking Save. Just use the drop-down for each to find a font more to your liking. This is where you set the two Styles I told you about earlier, +Body and +Headings, which in turn control basic settings for many of the other Styles in a Word document. On the left, you’ll see Heading font and Body font. That’s going to take you into the Create New Theme Fonts dialog box. From here, you want to choose Customize Fonts. Clicking on Fonts will give you a list of preconfigured font sets. Over on the far right is a drop-down called Fonts. These settings are found in the Design tab (introduced into Microsoft Word with version 2013). Fortunately, you can permanently change just two Styles (+Body and +Headings) to give your documents a more businesslike typeface. One of the most persistent frustrations legal users have with Microsoft Word fonts is the default font settings.
Modern Word has automatic language detection, but many users find it’s more reliable to specify the language.If you’re sick of MicroSoft word fonts Calibri and Cambria, change your default heading and body styles so you can start every new Word document with the fonts you prefer. That will ensure the correct spell and grammar checks are applied. ‘Body Text – Finnish’ ‘Body Text – German’ etc. It’s a similar story in French, Spanish and other languages.įor multi-lingual documents, you could have extra styles linked to ‘Body Text’ with only a language change e.g. There are often language variants like English (Canada) or English (UK) to choose instead of English (US) which appears as the default all over the world. Make sure the Language setting is correct because it effects the spell and grammar checking done by Word. Switching to, say, 1.5 or double spacing gives you more ‘scribble’ room.įor the final release, change Line Spacing to single line spacing or similar. Increase the line spacing for drafts, especially printed drafts or using digital ink markup. The default is Left justification which is the standard for document drafts.Ĭhange to Justify whenever you like, most commonly for the final stages before publication. FontĬhoose another font, suggestions for body text include Times New Roman, Garamond or Georgia. ’ to (no style) which makes Body Text standalone from any other style changes. All these settings are available from Modify Style, mostly via the ‘Format’ list. Here’s some settings to check or change to suit you. The Body Text style settings may be different on your computer. change the style settings in the template). Style for following paragraph: pressing Enter to end a paragraph in this style, the next paragraph will be: Body Text.Ĭhanges to the document formatting do NOT change the style (‘Automatically update’ is OFF)Īny style changes only apply to the current document (not ‘New documents based on this template’ i.e. Linked style – it can apply to both a paragraph and characters. The listing in the Word dialog isn’t entirely clear with some strange wrapping (e.g.
Here are the default settings as seen above for Word 365/2019 for Windows. ‘(no style)’ means that the settings from ‘Normal’ are copied into ‘Body Text’ (copied not linked) to make a standalone style which inherits no settings from any other style.
Switching to ‘(no style)’ reveals all the style settings as listed below.
This is important and the first thing we’ll change.
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