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Microsoft Word 2010 comes with a default font Calibri(Body) with Font size 11 and no formatting like Bold, Italics etc. What if you need a different font of your taste to type every time you open word? Off course you can always change the font every time you open a Word document, but there is a way easier for the same. Word 2010 allows user to customize the default font. When you customize a default font, every new document you open will use the font settings that you selected and set as the default. The default font applies to every new Word documents Even, Templates can be created to use different default font settings.

To customize the default font in Microsoft Word 2010 :

1. Click "Home" tab, and then in the "Font" group, click the arrow at right side bottom corner to open a dialog box..
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2. From the Font dialog box, font type, font style, size can be selected as default.

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3. Color for font can also be chosen by clicking the drop down list below "Font color"
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4. Select color for the underline if you choose one underline style also effects like Small Caps, All Caps, hidden etc can be applied to the font.
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5. Live preview of the font can be seen in the Preview frame of the “Font” Dialog box.

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6. Once, font is selected, Click "Advanced" tab and customize the advanced font settings from Advanced Font Settings.

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7. Click "Set As Default" button at the end of the dialog box from either of the "Font" or "Advanced" tab.
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8. Then a dialog box will pop up to confirm the default font for the working document only or for all future documents. Select the Radio button 2 , to set the customized font as default font for all word documents and then click "OK".

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9. When finishing these the font of the document has been changed now. Now every time a new document in word is opened it would have a default font as selected by you.

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As in the screen shot , the font selected by me has been set as default and would be applicable to all future word documents.

One thought on “Customize the Default Font in Office Word 2010”

  1. This DOES NOT WORK. Opening a new Word 2010 document shows that the font has NOT been changed.

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