WORD: Change default font, paragraph and line spacing

[Margy]

Running Windows 7 Pro with Office 2007 Enterprise. I need to change the
default font to Tahoma; line spacing to single; with no paragraph space on
normal style paragrah for new all documents.

I have been doing this for years. Open Font Dialogue Box - set font size etc
and clicked the dault button and OK. Easy as falling off a log. The same with
line space and paragraph spacing setting - Open Paragraph Dialogue box -
change settings and click default. This is not working on my Windows 7 HP
Notebook.

I then thought I would change the Normal Style and set it "For all document
based on this template." Will not work. When I open Word again, everything is
back to Calibri 11pt, 1.15 line spacing and 10pt spacing after each
paragraph.

Would be most grateful of any advice to change these defaults.

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Simply modifying the Normal style for a document based on the Normal.dotm
template works for me.

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

 

[MICROSOFT]

Doug, I was wondering what program you're using to post this reply? The
previous post was not shown and when I read it in Operamail its in a very
light font. I've noticed others using this so it must be a pretty common
program.

Simply modifying the Normal style for a document based on the
Normal.dotm template works for me.

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Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

 

[Pamelia Caswell via OfficeKB.com]

Open normal.dotm. Go to the Styles pane > Manage styles button > Defaults
tab. Make your changes there. Save and close normal.dotm. If you want to
use table styles or themes and style sets, leave the normal paragraph style
unmodified.

Pam

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

He's using Windows Live Mail according to the message properties. The
character set is UTF-8, which does result in a different appearance.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org