Calibri has been Word’s default font since 2007, when it replaced Times New Roman. Now it’s being kicked to the kerb for one of five new custom fonts that Microsoft has commissioned.

Learn how to change default Heading, Quote, Title font family, size, etc. in Microsoft Word. You can create new style for paragraph in Word too.

Word font keeps changing? If Word does not remember preferred font settings, then you need to change default font or recreate Normal.dotm which retails defulat settings.

Say it ain’t so, Calibri. I’ve always favored Microsoft’s default Word font—much more so than Times New Roman, at least, which Microsoft replaced with Calibri way back in Office 2007.

Your Word, Outlook, and Excel apps might look different. Microsoft just changed its default font for the first time in 15 years. By Aaron Mok ...

But changing the programs’ default font—the one that comes up every time you create a new document—isn’t so obvious. I’ve tested the following instructions in Word 2010 and 2013.