[Word] Default Type face and font

[Lindsay Graham]

I know this is from an old thread, but I'm just catching up on my 
reading <g>.

I'm using Word 2003/Windows XP.  Bonnie's suggestion does not work for 
me.  If I select a block of text and choose Default ..., the dialog box 
says "Do you want to change the default font to (Default) Calibri?  This 
change will affect all new documents based on the NORMAL template".  
Responding YES means that:
 
  (a) the font for the selected block of text is *not *changed to 
Calibri -- that does not make sense to me (it is changed, of course, if 
the Default button is not used); and
 
  (b) although closing the document produces a message that normal.dot 
is being saved, when Word is reopened, the default font has not changed 
-- but it appears to have worked for Bonnie.

Is there something that I'm missing?

Lindsay Graham
Canberra, Australia

McKinnon, Bonnie F wrote:
> In Word 2003, just click on Format>Font and set your font to what you want and then at the bottom left click on the "Default" button.
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> Bonnie
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: word-bounces at dcomp.com [mailto:word-bounces at dcomp.com] On Behalf Of Leonard S. Berkowitz
> Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 2:26 PM
> To: DailyWordTips
> Subject: Re: [Word] Default Type face and font
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> DailyWordTips, on Thursday, May 28, 2009, at 4:36:40 PM, you wrote:
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>> When I start a new doc, I am getting  Calibri 11 pt as default.
>> I would like to have Times New Roman 14 pt as my default.
>> How to change it ?
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> Modify the Normal template.
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