On 20.02.2017 20:32, Philip Jackson wrote: > On 20/02/17 16:30, Bruce Hohl wrote: >> To the right of 'Properties' there is a drop down icon which if you >> mouse-over has the tag 'Side bar setting'. Click that icon to select >> 'Styles and Formatting'. (If someone knows another way please chime-in.) > I'm with Ian on this one. Those changes you suggest work for the current > spreadsheet but as soon as you do : > File > New > Spreadsheet, the new sheet opens with Liberation Sans 10 > selected and in place. > > If you open the Default style by right-click > modify > Font tab, you > can set the font to anything else you like but one thing that makes me > think the default is set at a deeper level is that on the style modify > dialog, there is a fourth button (at RHS) labeled 'Standard'. Clicking > this sets Liberation Sans 10 again. > > According to the help info, the Standard button "Resets the values > visible in the dialog back to the default installation values" > > If I prepare a new blank spreadsheet with my preferred font and save it > as a new template, whenever I open a new spreadsheet by File > New > > Templates > Spreadsheets tab > select my new template > click Open, I > get a new blank spreadsheet with my fonts I selected. So this is > available as a workaround but it involves a lot of clicks just to get > what is needed. More clicks than it takes to change the font in the > default spreadsheet. > > Moreover, within the new spreadsheet from the new template, if I open > the style modification dialog and click the 'Standard' button, then I'm > again in the Liberation Sans 10 font. > > So where to go to change the 'Standard' setting remains a useful > question. Could the answer be in the Tools > Options > LibreOffice > > Advanced and then look at org.openoffice.VCL > DefaultFonts where I see > that the Liberation family gets lots of mentions ? > > Perhaps someone more used to modifying these Advanced settings could > comment ? > > Philip
I would advise advise anyone against poking around in the "/Advanced/" options. It's somewhat like messing with the Windows Registry, or Mozilla's about:config, one wrong move and everything can go "/pear shaped/". Not sure what the "/Standard/" button is, but if you mean the "/Default/" style, you will obviously be "/again in the Liberation Sans 10 font/", because you did not change it to something else before saving your custom default template. It's not a "/work-around/". The software has to start with some kind of default settings. If the user has not customized those settings by providing their own default preferences in the form of a template, the software has no option but to use it's inbuilt defaults. Don't fight templates, use them. Dave -- Please address any reply to the mailing list only. Any messages sent to this noreply@ address are automatically deleted from the server and will never be read. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
