Default Font in Word
 

Is there a way to change the default font for Word 2003? I want to use Tahoma instead of Times New Roman.

Normal.dot is the template from which Word gets all of the default formatting when you create a new document.

Open it from within Word -- it's at C:\Documents and Settings\user name\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates.

Open it, select the white space (CTRL-A), set the font to Tahoma, and save.

That doens't change the default fully, it will re-set to Times in certain circumstances.

Open nrmal.dot as described, and then in the format menu, edit the style "normal" to be Tahoma - include whatever you want your default line spacing and paragraph leading to be also, and then save normal.dot again.

That should make it work more reliably. :)

Awesome, thanks guys!

If only Dan Rather knew how to do that...

(couldn't resist)

Don't understand... :confused:

Dan Rather thought he had some documents that incriminated President Bush. It turned out the documents were in a font that didn't exist at the time they were supposedly created (i.e. they weren't authentic). It contributed to Dan's getting the boot from his anchor job at CBS.

Stop by Tilted Politics sometime.