Helen Bradley - MS Office Tips, Tricks and Tutorials

I'm a lifestyle journalist and I've been writing about office productivity software for a long time. Here you'll find handy hints, tips, tricks, techniques and tutorials on using software as diverse as Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access and Publisher from Microsoft and other applications that I love. My publishing credits include PC Magazine, Windows XP mag, CNet, PC User mag, SmallbusinessComputing.com, Winplanet and Sydney Morning Herald.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Excel Change the Default font

If the default font that Excel 2003 uses for all new worksheets doesn't suit your needs - change it by selecting Tools > Options > General tab and set the Standard font and Size to your preferred choice and choose Ok.

In future, all new workbooks you create will be set by default to this font although those you have previously created will remain unchanged.

If you're using Excel 2007 and you don't fancy the new Calibri font, click the Office button, choose Excel Options and click the Popular group. From the Use this font dropdown list choose the font to use for your new worksheets and click Ok. You'll need to close Excel and restart it for the new font change to be in force.

Labels: default worksheet font, Excel 2003, Excel 2007