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A customer has Office 365 (ie. win32 apps installed on their computer) and noticed that - likely due to a recent Office update - that the default fonts have been changed to Atmos / Atmos Narrow and asked me to set it back to Calibri by default.
I remember the old Word <2007 technique for making changes to the default template and was surprised to find that I didn't have to go through half the steps needed to affect a default style change to the default template, there wasn't even an option I had to pick that suggested that it was going to alter the default template! With Excel however I'm still scratching my head.
I found a quick workaround for the customer in that there's an option in Excel's 'Options' area to change the default font and that appears to work, but if I really needed to alter the default template then this wouldn't help. I've tried googling for how to change the default template but the closest suggestion I've found that actually works is saving not-a-template to XLSTART which isn't a great solution because it opens *that* spreadsheet to be edited.
For me this is a reminder that when I haven't been using MSOffice as my primary Office suite for about 20 years that my knowledge is going to get a bit rusty, but I don't think I've ever been asked to change the default Excel template by a customer before! I've done it a few times in Open/LibreOffice.
I remember the old Word <2007 technique for making changes to the default template and was surprised to find that I didn't have to go through half the steps needed to affect a default style change to the default template, there wasn't even an option I had to pick that suggested that it was going to alter the default template! With Excel however I'm still scratching my head.
I found a quick workaround for the customer in that there's an option in Excel's 'Options' area to change the default font and that appears to work, but if I really needed to alter the default template then this wouldn't help. I've tried googling for how to change the default template but the closest suggestion I've found that actually works is saving not-a-template to XLSTART which isn't a great solution because it opens *that* spreadsheet to be edited.
For me this is a reminder that when I haven't been using MSOffice as my primary Office suite for about 20 years that my knowledge is going to get a bit rusty, but I don't think I've ever been asked to change the default Excel template by a customer before! I've done it a few times in Open/LibreOffice.
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