HOW TO CHANGE DEFAULT SETTINGS
First, check your current templates. Select (left-click) “File” (from the menu bar at the top of your screen) > Select “Templates” (top of the drop-down menu) > Manage (small pop-up window). A window will appear listing your current templates. Do you see any duplicates or templates that you do not want? If so, left-click on any template that you do not want and it will then be highlighted and a menu will appear under a “Documents” tab. > Left-click on [Delete] > [Yes] (to confirm delete) > When you are done deleting and/or editing templates click on [Close]. Everything goes away.
Remember that File > Templates > Manage will take you to a list of all your templates. By left-clicking on any template it will be selected/highlighted and the following menu will appear under the tab “Documents”. “Open”, “Edit”, “Properties”, “Set as default”, “Move to folder”, “Export”, and “Delete”.
Now to change your default settings, open a new blank document.
If the margins are not what you desire to be your default, then follow these steps. Select (left-click) “Format” (menu bar at the top of your screen) > Page (from drop-down menu) > Page (a tab) > Under the heading “Margins” change the margins to your preferred settings > Apply > OK
If the font and font size is not already what you want as your default, go to the menu bar at the top of your screen and change the font and/or font size to your preferred settings.
[Step 1 of 3 in short: Open a new blank document and set the margins, font, and font size for your new default page.]
Now left-click on “File” (menu bar at the top of your screen) > Templates (drop-down menu) > Save As Template (small pop-up window). In the large pop-up window that then appears, click on “Save” (located immediately below the “Documents” tab with a green down arrow on the left side of “Save”) [Note: A pop-up may appear asking you to select a folder in which to save your new default template.] > Name your new template (in the small pop-up window that now appears) > OK (everything closes)
[Step 2 of 3 in short: File > Templates > Save As Template > Save > Name your new template > OK]
Now left-click File again (menu bar at the top of your screen) > But this time select New (at the top of the drop-down menu) > Templates (at the bottom of the next drop-down menu) > In the pop-up window that appears, select (left-click) the new template that you just created. [Note: If the new template that you just created appears in a folder, then double-left-click on the folder and then left-click on the template.] A menu bar appears under the “Documents” tab. Left-click on “Set as default” in this menu bar. > Close (everything goes away)
[Step 3 of 3 in short: File > New > Templates > Select your new template > Set as default > Close]
Done! From now on when you click on the “New” icon in the menu bar a new blank document will appear with your preferred margins and font style.