How on earth do you do this?! I have the newest version, but everyone says “Tools > LO Writer > Basic font style”, well, there is NO basic font style visible anywhere…
How come LO cannot just add “use this font as default font” when choosing a font in the font selection menu? Is it that difficult to program in that, or? Would make things 10x easier AND more practical. Stop being so difficult about it.
I have not the newest 7.3.4 version even in portable version, but here is a screeshot about the “Default Western font” setting/feature of the LO 7.3.2 version:
After you choose a new Default font in the Writer application, then the new, empty documents will open with the new font property inside the properties of the Default Styles.
It might be worth mentioning that nearly all instructions refer to the menu; not to icons or tabs.
If you have the Tabbed interface you can display the menus by clicking the menubar icon at the left of the icons
And revealed
Other interfaces, such as Grouped Bar may have the icon as a sub-menu. In this case on the right
The LibreOffice applications use Templates for the new document. Just create, andjust your own Writer Template with the desired properties, and set it as Default template.
And the default template never use Direct (Manual) formatting properties. The Font is set by Paragraph Styles, and Character Styles.
In addition to @Zizi64’s answer, you have a simplified procedure in case you don’t want to create your own template, don’t know how to deal with templates or are only discovering LO Writer. Remember this is a very powerful application and this requires learning it a bit at least (how could a limited application gain any success opposed to Word?).
Tools>Options (it looks like the Options is missing in your question; forgot it or are you mistaking with another menu?).LibreOffice Writer>Basic Fonts(Western)
The choice you make here is kept in your user profile.
A few remarks:
Does not mean anything because 1) you didn’t mention your OS name (“latest” version depends on OS because ports don’t proceed at the same pace), 2) this varies with time (tomorrow, the “latest” version may change).
You must always mention the exact LO version because there are subtle differences between platforms and releases.
We aren’t developers, just users like you (I admit we have more experience with LO and have accumulated many tricks while using it intensively). Complaints about user experience and ergonomics should be channelled to the developers through the Bugzilla site.