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thomasvochtenoutlook
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Sep 28, 2016
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Default Office theme uses Times New Roman everywhere, not Calibri

On a few different tenants I have, the default Office theme (called "Office") seems to have changed the default font back to good old Times New Roman, instead of Calibri. I thought it had something t...
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  • MJ23's avatar
    MJ23
    Dec 26, 2016

    What helped in my case was deleting default templates in "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates" changing the default language to "English US" or similar in Office 2016 Language Preferences, followed by opening Word and Outlook (to re-create default templates). I had "English Europe" set as default editing language, Office installation picked-it up from regional settings. This seems to have caused the Office to fall back to "Times New Roman".

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MJ23
Brass Contributor
Dec 26, 2016

What helped in my case was deleting default templates in "%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates" changing the default language to "English US" or similar in Office 2016 Language Preferences, followed by opening Word and Outlook (to re-create default templates). I had "English Europe" set as default editing language, Office installation picked-it up from regional settings. This seems to have caused the Office to fall back to "Times New Roman".

  • Todd Ingalls's avatar
    Todd Ingalls
    Copper Contributor
    Apr 14, 2018

    Changing language from English (Germany) to English (United States) in Word language options resolves the issue also for me. I'd be interested in knowing if this application behavior is expected and desired or should be considered a bug for submission to the Office 365 bug backlog.

    When language is set to "English (Germany)" no matter what "Fonts" setting from "Design" ribbon is selected, it changes nothing of the default +Body and +Heading font. Why have the "Fonts" setting?

     

    -Todd

     

    • Gischgimmasch's avatar
      Gischgimmasch
      Copper Contributor
      Jan 13, 2019
      I had the same issue with a clean install of Windows 10 and Office 365.
      My system language was "English (Germany)" and the default Office font turned out to be Times New Roman. Quite ugly I must say.
    • Deleted's avatar
      Deleted
      Jan 09, 2019

      So, this bug is still existing and reproducable

       

      Is Microsoft going to fix this ?

  • Patrick Fischer's avatar
    Patrick Fischer
    Copper Contributor
    Jan 02, 2018

    For anyone else arriving here, I had the same issue and this solution almost worked for me, but not quite. In addition, I had to reset the Windows 10 default language (Settings -> Time and Language -> Region & language) back to "English US", in addition to the steps outlined below. 

    Only then the font in Outlook and Word would stop flipping back to Times New Roman and stay Calibri in my case.

     

  • Michiel Staessen's avatar
    Michiel Staessen
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 26, 2017

    Confirming that Marko Jugs answer fixed this for me.

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