


#Changing default font in word for mac windows#
(This is what updates the information in the Windows Registry.) Use the controls in the dialog box to specify what you want as the default font.Press Ctrl+D to display the Font dialog box.Type a few letters into an empty document.If you are using Word 2002 or Word 2003 you can change the default font used for new documents in this manner, assuming that Word has not yet created the default template (Normal.dot): In these later Word versions, there is no default template until you make enough changes to Word's defaults to warrant the creation of the template. The default font used by the program is no exception. In later versions of Word, more and more defaults have been moved away from templates and into the Windows Registry.

In Word 97 and Word 2000 all defaults were stored in the default template, which is Normal.dot. Where those defaults come from depends on the version of Word you are using. When you create a new document, Word bases what that document looks like on certain defaults that it establishes.
