Reverting Aptos +body/+headings font back to Calibri, or using any other font

Anonymous
2024-01-11T01:32:12+00:00

At some point in the last couple of days, the default +body/+headings font on my copy of Office 365 changed to the Aptos font. I honestly find it a bit hard to read, and I'd rather choose my default body font from a choice of whatever fonts I have installed. Failing that, I'd take Calibri again. The Aptos font reminds me a lot of

Since this affects all Office products, I can't say go into Outlook and change the stationery fonts; this doesn't impact the Reading Pane. It also wouldn't impact say Word, where I'd have to come up with my own document template to override the change. It doesn't seem to be a registry edit or template file edit, either. Is there a spot that the Aptos font can be changed?

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  1. Anonymous
    2024-06-05T21:13:51+00:00

    You should not have the right to change people's document fonts across the board without having a way for them to revert back to what they like. this font is awful and harder on the eyes and i don't want to use it and should not be forced to nor should all my documents from the past revert to this. My documents and sheets and emails should remain as they were, and new one's should be created in the format that I created as my normal. not in some arbitrary decision that your company makes to wreak havoc on everyone. If you make a change, we should have the option to accept it or not. Now we all have spend hours to fix all of our documents and sheets and emails and change all the default settings or template settings to undo something we did not ask for. what is wrong with your company now. your directors need to give their heads a shake.

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  2. Anonymous
    2024-05-28T15:37:36+00:00

    You're here to help?

    Stop rolling out these unwanted 'soft' chgs.

    Those who do it, set the font that is the most readable to us, whatever it is & often did it yrs ago & have forgotten all the steps to reset.

    This type of thing isn't a patch or any kind of functional upgrade...this is simply MS being jerks.

    On a new install, whatever...set the default to Aptos, but leave existing installs alone.

    I'd like a response on exactly how MS thinks this is acceptable?

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  3. Anonymous
    2024-04-19T15:22:44+00:00

    I totally agree. This sucks. In the overall, I don't have too much of a problem with the way Aptos looks, except I convert a lot of emails to PDF. Adobe Acrobat absolutely HATES Aptos and always errors out so I have to go in and manually change it. SUCKS.

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  4. Anonymous
    2024-04-08T14:26:44+00:00

    WHY would Office do such a thing!

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-04-04T11:16:04+00:00

    In Excel, if you enter an amount in GBP (£) and then set the cell formatting to 'Accounting', the '£' symbol is misaligned with the value in the cell (it's too high up).

    The '£' symbol is perfectly aligned in Calibri.

    I'm surprised this got through testing and QA before being rolled out into the live environment globally. I suspect that the '$' symbol is OK and that's all that mattered.

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