Notice that the list updates as you make changes.

In the Formatting section, choose Arial as the font and 10 as the size ( Figure A).

Right-click Normal in the Quick Styles gallery and choose Modify.

To modify the Normal style, do the following: That's probably what you want if it isn't, this method isn't for you. So changing the Normal style will affect all those descendant styles. (Normal is both the name of the template and the name of a paragraph style.) The template, by default, uses the Normal style as the base for several other styles. Modifying the template's Normal style is the quickest way to reset all three of the properties mentioned earlier. SEE: Office Q&A: Word page numbering and Excel's Find feature Modify Normal style Also, documenting your changes is always a good idea. That means your documents will contain all the good stuff and all the bad stuff-something you might not recognize as a troublemaker until later.įor the same reason, I recommend that you keep customizations to the Normal template to a minimum. Everything that's in that document will be in your template and, consequently, every new document you create. You might be tempted to base a template on a content-filled document by removing the content and saving the empty file as a template file (.dotx or.

In older (menu) versions, choose the New Template command. Click New on the Quick Access Toolbar or choose New from the File tab. The best template begins with a new blank document. There's no downloadable demonstration file for this technique. You can update Word 2003's template, Normal.dot, but there are no instructions in this article. I'm using Word 2016 desktop on a Windows 10 64-bit system.

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