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

Why do developers assume that everyone wants to be like them!!!!!!!!!!!! Ridiculous that you have to go into several screens to change to a font that you like and have used for years. I don't really care if some young developer thinks that Apatos is so much more 'whimsical".

“Aptos has got a bit more whimsy to it,” she says, adding that the default font will be a perfect option for scripts she writes.

Typical MSO 365 - don't give users an option to stick with what they like - even though we are paying for the product in an annual subscription. I have to spend my time going through each program to make the changes.

Before Microsoft changed the default font to Aptos I had our whole companies Office default fonts set via group-policy. This was in-place and continued working for quite some time.

Now that Aptos has been enforced by MS, the policies still apply to users and set Calibri as default in registry (confirmed) as well as deploying a normal.dotm, but then when opening a new email or replying etc it is still set to Aptos by default.

Changing the default settings in "Stationary and Fonts" on a per-machine basis works but only until next reboot and is not practicable to roll out to everyone.

It "seems" like Microsoft have written something into the new deployment which over-writes even registry settings. A ticket has been raised with MS Support who have been "working on it" for nearly 2 months now with no solution.

Another gripe: Other non-MS programs don't recognize the font at all (hello, Adobe Acrobat), and thus default to their take on a compatible font, which makes editing a PDF a veritable nightmare -- or in fact impossible.

Customer wanted Verdana 9 as font for sending and replying e-mails.

After trying GPP (Grou Policy Prefence) and setting Reg_Binary values using WEM which both failed in setting the right font, I ended up with setting the right font manually, exported the registry keys HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\MailSettings using the values ComposeFontComplex, ComposeFontSimple, ReplyFontComplex, ReplyFontSimple, TextFontComplex, TextFontSimple into a .reg file.

Placed this in \<domain>\notlogon and used an external task in WEM using C:\Windows\SYstem32\reg.exe with parameter import \<domain>\netlogon\verdana9.reg

After that, the right registry key is imported and the font is set to the right value.

Why is Microsoft apparently doing everything possible to make our lives more difficult and complicated? The font change is just one example.

Renee,

Nobody here can answer the question "why?" because we are all volunteer contributors in the forum.

Make use of the feedback facility in your Office applications. The feedback will reach the Office developers.