Sometimes it’s the small things that can be the most frustrating. Depends what you mean by default settings, if you simply mean that when you create a new doc the template is 'wrong' shutdown Office or Word, search for normal.dot and normal.dotm and delete all instances, when you restart Word a default template will be created. If Word does not seem to remember your font settings, try disabling Word addins to see if this helps. Also, some addins can affect your Normal.dotm template. Please Note: Changing your default font size will not change the font size in existing documents, so these will still show the settings you used when these documents were created. Hi there, this is an article about Microsoft Word, but to change your Facebook language, click the down-arrow to the right of your name / home / notification icons, choose Settings, then General, and there is a language option that you can edit.
Word will recreate it with the standard default settings the next time you open Word. If you want to revert to your default settings, simply delete your Normal.dotm file. Remember: anything you change or enter in this document will appear in any new document you create using Word. Now, change any font settings as you normally would. Note: Do not double-click on the file, as this will only create a new document based on Normal.dotm and any edits you make will not be saved in this file. Right-click on the Normal.dotm file, and click Open to edit it. This will open your Office Templates folder. To edit your Normal.dotm file, enter the following in the address bar in Explorer or in the Run prompt: This file is what Word uses to create new documents it basically copies the formatting in this document each time you make a new document. Select Save in the left pane, then select Word 97-2003 Documents from the drop down. Open Microsoft Word, click office icon at the top left. doc which is widely supported in the backward version of office 2007. And simply repeat these steps to change your default font settings again if you want.Īnother way to change your default font settings is to edit your Normal.dotm file. Letâs see how can you change the default file save format to. Now, whenever you open Word or create a new document, your default font settings should be set exactly to what you want. In Word 2007, simply click Ok to save these settings as default. Click the bullet beside “All documents based on the Normal.dotm template?”, and then click Ok. In Word 2010, you will be given the option to set these settings for this document only or for all documents. Now when you open word it will default to the settings you have created.You will be asked to confirm that you want these settings to be made default. Then make sure all instances of word are closed, and delete the old normal.dot (Or rename it if you want to back it up), and rename the new one (Normal2.dot) to Normal.dot. Change the font, add a header, a footer, or anything…and save it as Normal2.dot in that same folder.
4.) Click the Set As Default button in the bottom-left corner of the Font dialog box. It can be found here:Ĭ:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Microsoft\Templatesīack to where we were at…open it with word:Īnd it looks like a blank document. 2.) Click the Font dialog box launcher button, located in the bottom-right corner of the Font group. It is located in the users current profile. The default settings for a documents font, and many other settings are pulled from a file called normal.dot I started searching through the registry to see if there was a location that Microsoft stored this…and actually it is not stored in the registry at all. This can cause issues when a document is saved from 2007 in 2003 format and then shared with someone who does not have the office 2007 compatibility pack installed and thus does not have the calibri font. Do you have any suggestions for changing the default font that is used? The calibri font is the default in 2007, and it does not come with 2003. Steve – found your blog and tool for ms word 2007 compatibility. Recently I received an email from a reader asking:
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