Brian - Thank you for the walk through on managing and changing default fonts in Writer. Esay to follow and helpful.
A slightly related question: How do I change the default font in Calc? I have vision issues and both the Arial font structure as well as the default size are an issue for me. While I can change each new spreadsheet's font type and size on the tool bar, I'd prefer a manner in which I can change the default font to my preferred one. While I am in a Calc window, the Tools > Options> Open Office > Fonts, or Tools>Options>Open Office > Calc or Tools>Options>Open Office > Calc Base don't give any of the plethora of ways to change font options that are available in an OPen Office window. Thoughts? Thank you in advance. On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com> wrote: > At 15:13 19/07/2016 -0400, Felmon Davis wrote: > >> I have a large document I work on this time of year. the default font >> size is 11pt but now I want to change it to 10.5pt - gonna make it into a >> booklet. simply altering the 'default' setting does not automatically >> modify the font size through the document. >> > > This depends on what you mean by the "default setting". I'm guessing that > you have changed the value at Tools | Options... | OpenOffice Writer | > Basic Fonts (Western) | Default - and you are right: this changes the > default for new documents only and not anything in a document currently > open for editing. > > I don't want to 'select all' since there are other font sizes bound to a >> couple of 'styles' I'm using. >> > > Good: that wouldn't be the best solution. But you are using more styles > that those "couple" you describe, since every paragraph will have a > paragraph style with its own font size. If you have not knowingly ascribed > a paragraph style to any part of your document, they may have the Default > paragraph style (not to be confused with the default set in Options as > above). > > how do I change a setting and have it 'propagate' automagically through >> the document? or is that not possible? >> > > o Go to Format | Styles and Formatting (or click the Styles and Formatting > button in the Formatting toolbar, or press F11). > o Select the Paragraph Styles button in the button bar of that window. > o Put the cursor into your text to see which paragraph style is > highlighted as being used. > o Right click the paragraph style and select Modify... . > o Modify the font size as required. > o If this doesn't change all the relevant parts of your document, repeat > in unaffected parts and change those paragraph styles too. > > maybe copy and paste into a suitable template? >> > > No need. > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
