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I don't want to use the new Aptos font, and I changed my default font back to Calibri by going to File/Options/General/When creating new workbooks/OK. I closed Excel and reopened it and yes, it uses Calibri for new workbooks. However, I rarely do spreadsheets from a new workbook. I nearly always start with downloads from our databases. These downloads will use a variety of fonts and formats, so my first step is to clear all formatting. But when I do that it reverts to Aptos, not Calibri. I've even tried to change the Normal template by going to Home/Styles/right click Normal/Modify/Format/Font and changing it to Calibri there. That doesn't help, and in fact the Normal template keeps reverting to Aptos. What I need is to be able to set a default font of my choosing, and have Excel apply it by default universally.
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Literally spent past two days trying to get something to work for such a silly, unnecessary, but typically MS, frustration.
Why the heck does Microsoft think that they know everything. This is complete garbage. You give us the tools to make things work for our own needs, and then "someone" has the audacity to think that he/she/they know what is best for us, The tool is changed and all of the flexibility that we "the users" have used and depend on, is not broken. Beyond that, you seemed to have convinced every corporation to think this is OK and they go with it?
For those individuals with near-sightedness, the Aptos font is not good. When the letter capital letter "i", the lowercase letter "L" look the nearly the same, it is not good. Unfortunately, there are many fonts that do this; however, in the past you gave "us" the users to make up our own minds as to what works for "us".
Now you've taken that ability for "us" to make "our" lives easier, but limiting the font choices and then not have to cause "us" tons of extra work every day to manually manipulate our forms and document back to what we set them to originally.
Is flies in the face of discrimination against those with visual disabilities. Please for the love of Pete get rid of the Office 365 restriction to only use Aptos.
You can set the worksheet defaults (such as fonts) using the options in the Themes group on the Page Layout tab.
If the document contains more than one worksheet, you can group them first, that is, select multiple sheets (see https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/group-worksheets-4e1f7747-3d63-4fd7-8a36-838b05adc0f0) and then change the defaults. Remember to ungroup the sheets before you continue editing the content, though.
HOW FRUSTRATING!!! Since they changed the default font I have problems with printing my spreadsheets...they keep rolling to 2 pages. I have forms set up and I copy one off to a new spreadsheet to enter data in and save. It is a pain in the butt to have to keep changing the font every time I create a new one and need to print it. I did go in and change my default font back to Calibri but when I copy a sheet out of my workbook it puts to Aptos. Why is it not keeping the default that I set? If anyone knows how to put this back I would greatly appreciate the help.
So typical. Software engineers decide that they know what is best for everyone and don't allow people to make their own choices. I'm sick of it. Can we load them all in a rocket and fire them into the sun?