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    Changing default font in existing workbook

    How do I change the default font in an existing workbook?? Must be so simple I am stupid...

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    Re: Changing default font in existing workbook

    Change the font for style Normal.
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    Re: Changing default font in existing workbook

    I have tried that but every worksheet I creates go back to the silly font I created it with.

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    Re: Changing default font in existing workbook

    Once you change some aspect of the formatting of a cell, changes to the underlying style won't be reflected. Select all the cells and change to style Normal, then go from there.

    If the undesired fonts appear in new workbooks then,

    Excel Options > Popular, When creating new workbooks -- change the font face and size.

    If you have Book.xltx and Sheet.xltx in your XLSTART folder, change the font of style Normal in those.
    Last edited by shg; 11-18-2013 at 11:40 AM.

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    Re: Changing default font in existing workbook

    Yeah. That is what I am doing. Thank you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shg View Post
    Change the font for style Normal.
    omg Thank you! This has been bugging me for like a YEAR!

    Every time i created a new worksheet in an existing workbook i was stuck with it reverting the font to Times New Roman when i need it to be a monospaced font like Consolas. Changing the Normal style worked!

    IDK why this didn't occur to me sooner but it just goes to show even with decades of excel experience you can't remember everything at once. lol

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