As stated in the title, I can’t permanently change the default font using Tools>Options>LibreOffice Writer>Basic Fonts (Western). I have tried no less than 10 times to change the default font from Liberation Serif to Calibri, applying the change and saving before closing. Every time I open a new file, it resets itself back to Liberation Serif. Please explain how to get around this, it’s very annoying.
@trog
I tried Calibri and Liberation Sans instead of Liberation Serif and succeeded. After closing and restarting of LibreOffice the default paragraph’s font has changed…
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If the behaviour does not change so consider a renaming or deleting of LO’s user profile.
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Version: 7.6.4.1 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: e19e193f88cd6c0525a17fb7a176ed8e6a3e2aa1
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19045; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI: de-DE
Calc: threaded
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EDIT
Just seen @Wanderer’s comment:
For creating a new document on explorer or filemanager by right mouse click see German tutorial about this topic. Probably your browser may translate the text…
You don’t tell how you create a new file, also we don’t know your OS or the Version of LO. So only guesswork here.
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Some people create new files on Windows via context-menu in Windows explorer. Here predefined files are copied to the selected folder. LibreOffice is not opened for this. So settings are not taken into account.
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IMHO this depends on profile and version of LibreOffice. If I’m remembering right current Versions of LO can handle empty files for this (therefore settings can be obeyed when the file is filled), but if Explorer creates an “old” file this will be respected by LO too.
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Did you set an default template? If not try to set one.
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Yeah, playing with the default template did it. I’m really not jazzed about this being the correct solution; a setup like this is unintuitive and unnecessarily complex, bordering on user-unfriendly.
Maybe, but scrolling big lists of central settings as you suggested is also not liked by everybody - this is a full blown office-suite with several components and added programming languages, not a little app on a phone.
Not at all. One or two people in this world work for customers, where we need different settings per customer, so we just have different templates. I’m using the same feature to handle different projects.
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As several others using templates may be unheard to you, but after it is undestood it is powerful and quite easy to use.