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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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Changing the Pasting from other programs to Merge Formatting seems to fix the pasting into Outlook issue.
I will add that step to my blog post:
Caroline117
Word and Outlook use the same Editor so that Cut, Copy & Paste act the same in both a new document or new message/reply.
So the same options that I described in previous post with all the screen snips are the same.
And, like Word, an Outlook paste operation -- whether via Ctrl+V, Ribbon menu button, or context menu -- will insert a button with drop-down at end of the pasted text:
which allows you to select whether the inserted text keeps the formatting (font, color, styling, etc -- which is the default as installed) or change the inserting text to use the destination formatting (you can also insert plain text or the object as an image -- such as Excel table or a signature with logo).
The drop-down also lets you set the Default Paste behavior which will take the Cut, copy and paste options ... which, again are identical to those is Word above. (Also accessed via File > Outlook Options > Mail > Editor Options > Advanced ...)
By default, all paste operations (Within same e-mail ... between e-mails ... from other programs:) are set to Keep Source Formatting EXCEPT for Pasting between e-mails when style definitions conflict: which is set to Use the Destination Style.
You either need to use the drop-down button after each paste to select how you want pasted text to be handled or change the default in the Editor Options
I'm having an issue where when I paste text, it shows up as aptos even if the copied text is calibri. how do i prevent this from happening?
What happens in a copy/paste will depend on several factors, but basically Word honors style-based formatting whenever it is able to do so. This is standard behavior in Word (it has nothing to do with the modified Theme).
Let's say that you copy text formatted in Normal style in a document where 12 point Calibri is the default and then paste into a document where 12 point Aptos is the default. The pasted text will be 12 pt Aptos in the target document.
Hi Stefan,
Could you give us an update on Microsoft's position on this? Is this feedback on Aptos being fed back to Microsoft at all? What are their thoughts on this update and how it is affecting users? Are there any plans to roll this back?
Thanks