Hi Jeff,

I'm not sure I understand the question, completely.

See if the following steps are in the direction you want to go:

1. The "Home" tab, Font group: there's a little square button at the bottom
right. Clicking it should open the Font dialog box.

2. Select the font and font size you want to use.

3. Click the "Default" button and confirm you want this to be the default
for all new documents created from... (Usually, you'd see the Normal.dot
template, unless you're using a customized template).

Now, all new documents created from "blank document" will have these font
settings for the Normal style.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
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For Word 2007 use the following steps to modify defaults:

- On the Page Layout tab in the Themes group open Theme Fonts and at
the bottom select Create new theme fonts
- Set your Heading and Body font accordingly and provide a name
- Verify your new custom font is selected in the Gallery
- On the Home tab in the Styles group click Change Styles and then Set
as Default.

Otherwise, if you use the old methods for setting defaults, such as
using the Font dialog box, you'll be unable to take advantage of the
new features of Word 2007. Most of them are designed to save you time
when it comes to formatting a document. One example is if you insert a
Cover Page, or other Building Block, it will automatically be
formatted with the fonts you specified for Headings and Body font. (It
won't if you use the Font dialog box and the Default button). The
connection the Theme Fonts which are identified in the Font drop
down - you'll see the font name followed by (Headings) or (Body)
accordingly.

Beth Melton
Microsoft Office MVP

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