#Set default font in word 2019 update#

Hover the mouse pointer over a style name in the task pane.Word displays the Styles and Formatting task pane, at the right side of the screen. Choose Styles and Formatting from the Format menu.If you are using Word 2002 or Word 2003, the steps are different: Click on Close to dismiss the Style dialog box.

Click on OK to close the Modify Style dialog box.

#Set default font in word 2019 update#

Make sure the Automatically Update check box, at the bottom of the dialog box, is clear.

The Modify Style dialog box is displayed.

In the list of styles, select a style name.

To turn this feature off, all of the users will need to perform these steps if you are using Word 97 or Word 2000: Thus, with the feature turned on, if someone makes a change to an individual paragraph, the change is also applied to the underlying style, which in turn affects every other paragraph in the document that uses that style. This feature of Word causes changes to a style definition when someone applies an explicit formatting change to something in the document. First of all, you need to check to make sure that all users have dynamic style updating turned off.

There are a couple of things to check when this happens. If Don saves a file with certain styles in place and someone else with access to the server opens and saves the same file, then when Don subsequently opens the file, invariably the style definitions have changed. It seems that when there are multiple authors using a single document, the styles sometimes change unexpectedly. Don has run into a problem in his office regarding styles.