Trying to set default font for Outlook, Word, PowerPoint and Excel for entire organization.

William Lampert 6 Reputation points
2021-05-17T20:56:19.093+00:00

We're trying to set a default font that is already available for all the users Office 365 applications (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, Excel).

Outlook - Found older instructions on changing your own to the font/theme you want, Export the mailsettings registry key, convert to XML, created GPO and copy into User Conf>Preferences>Windows Settings>Registry. I have it pushing to a test user account but Outlook is not changing to the new font. GPRESULT /R is showing that its receiving the GPO?

Powerpoint - created a new powerpoint template with only the font changed in the master slide > Saved as Blank.potx > New GPO > User Config >Preferences>Windows Settings>FIles. Have the source set to where its saved in our domain location that all computers can access. Target Path is: C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates - Action set to UPDATE so it overwrites the default blank template already in place. - Not working either.

Excel and Word i'm still trying to figure out!

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  1. Teemo Tang 11,336 Reputation points
    2021-05-18T06:59:27.923+00:00

    Check this for a hint:
    Set the default font for Office applications - Office | Microsoft Learn
    https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/office-suite-issues/set-default-font

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  2. William Lampert 6 Reputation points
    2021-05-18T13:02:32.657+00:00

    Thanks John - For Outlook, we dont care how the message fonts are displaying or received, its just the default font when composing an email.

    TeemoTand - Thank you, I have seen that. We want to set these setting for the entire org instead of having the user do it to their own machine.

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  3. VMF 1 Reputation point
    2021-11-01T21:42:11.34+00:00

    I'd also like to ask this question, but in regards to Intune. I can find the option to set the default font for Excel, but not Word or Powerpoint. Is this just an oversight? A bug? A missing feature? It seems beyond silly that this can be done for only 1 of the 3 big apps.