If you want to change the default font for all new documents, click Settings, and click Set as default for all documents. If you want to change the default font, you must have a printer installed.Ĭhoose a font size from the Size list box. To change the default font in a WordPerfect® document The second paragraph is formatted with the Courier font, so the paragraph is preceded by the Font: Courier tag in the Reveal Codes window. In the following example, the first paragraph is formatted with the default font, so the paragraph is not preceded by a font tag in the Reveal Codes window. If other fonts have been applied, the text is tagged with a Font: Font name tag. If a paragraph is formatted with the default font, it does not contain a font tag. Using the Reveal Codes window, you can verify whether text is formatted with the default font or another font. If you were to change the default font to Arial, the font in the first paragraph would change, but the Courier font in the second paragraph would remain. In the following example, the first paragraph is formatted with the program's default font, Times New Roman, and the second paragraph is formatted with Courier. If a different font was applied to a section of text, the font in that section will not change when you change the default font. You can change the default font of an existing document, but the font you choose is applied only to the text that is formatted with the default font. To make sure that you are applying the default font consistently in a document, you should set the default font before you begin typing text. It’s easy enough to change the font for text in your current document, but that doesn’t change the default font that’s applied every time you create a new document. You can, however, change the default font for your current document or for all new documents that you create. Word is a powerful application, but some of the configuration tools are not very intuitive. Have you noticed that WordPerfect® automatically applies the Times New Roman font to the text that you type in a new document? That's because Times New Roman is set as WordPerfect's default font.
Changing the default font in WordPerfect documents