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
    2024-04-10T14:19:44+00:00

    Hey Stefan,

    How do we create a policy or something other centrally managed to replace Aptos with our companies default font?

    This includes:

    Access
    Excel
    OneNote

    Outlook

    Powerpoint

    Word

    It is absolutely CRAZY that Microsoft decides to change default templates for thousands of companies without any decent option to roll-back this idiot change they made.

    Does Micro$oft know how many time and money this will cost their customers? Can they all claim that money back for f*cking up their office?

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  3. Stefan Blom 351.5K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2024-04-11T16:17:53+00:00

    I believe that someone else responded in this thread with an example of how to set a group policy using the registry.

    Personally, I have never worked actively with group policies.

    Of course, you can set up a custom template for your Word users (for example).

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  4. Stefan Blom 351.5K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2024-04-11T16:21:20+00:00

    Christian M. Schneider suggested the following for Excel:

    This is a String called Font with the value "Calibri,11".

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  5. Anonymous
    2024-04-15T08:12:12+00:00

    That's because the entire office font system is ROUGE!!

    they do not respect system wide settings in registry.

    [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontSubstitutes]

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