[Solved] Change default font

[kinell2002]

I seem to be unable to change the default font having spent about 3 hours reading all the how to's, senility I fear

[floris v]

You change the default font for Writer in Tools - Options - Writer - Basic Fonts. All new documents will then have that default font. Existing documents won't change.
Does this help you?

[kinell2002]

Thank you for your help
unfotunately after following instructions and then shutting down and reopening it has gone back to how it was am i missing something in the last stage?

[MrProgrammer]

I seem to be unable to change the default font …

When you create a document from a template, the template supplies the Default paragraph style and paragraphs will use that style until you change to a different paragraph style. In any case, the paragraph style specifies the font. When you want to set a default font, you create a template which has it's Default paragraph style's font set to that. Then you make that template the default template for Writer.

The concept of a style is fundamental to Writer. It will be difficult to use Writer without understanding how styles work. A template is also an important concept for Writer. The Writer manual explains these subjects in detail.
Getting Started Guide Chapter 3 - Using Styles and Templates
Writer Guide Chapter 7 - Working with Styles
OpenOffice User Guides (PDF)

Open a document. Use File → Properties to determine if it used a template. If so, either change the Default paragraph style in that template, or create a new template with the desired font in Default paragraph style and then use that as the template to open documents (File → New → Templates and Documents). In the image below, I created template Writer_.ott and then told Writer that its default template is Writer_.ott. If you don't understand this paragraph, read the links above.

Display from File → Properties, showing my template name

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[FJCC]

By the way, there are more recent user guides than those listed by MrProgrammer.
https://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Docume ... e_Chapters