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From: blm@6sceng.UUCP (Brian Matthews)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: MS Word 4.0: How to change the default font
Keywords: default font, change, not documented
Message-ID: <631@6sceng.UUCP>
Date: 28 May 91 06:19:09 GMT
References: <878@bcstec.boeing.com>
Organization: Six Sigma CASE, Inc.
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In article <878@bcstec.boeing.com> drinkard@bcstec.boeing.com (Terrell D. Drinkard) writes:
|So.  The question is:  How does one change the default font in Word 4.0?
|The documentation is typical Microsoft and so far as I can tell, if it can
|be done at all, it isn't documented.  Is there anyone on the net who can
|help?  Email would be appreciated.

Let's see.  Turn to the index, look under Defaults.  The first entry is
pages 41-46, turn there.  On page 41, we find:

NOTE	The default character and paragraph formats are defined in the
	Normal paragraph style. [...] With the Define Styles command,
	you can change the Normal style settings to the character and
	paragraph formats (font, font size, indents, and so on) that you
	prefer. [...]

And much more info on how to do the above.

I know it's fun to bash Microsoft, but you can easily change the default
style, and it seems pretty well documented.  It took me maybe 10 seconds
to find it, 8 or so of which were flipping pages.
-- 
Brian L. Matthews	blm@6sceng.UUCP