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Change default font size in WordPad?How can I change from the default "10" font size in WordPad to any other size like "12"? I have searched and looked and sought this answer to no avail. I use WordPad quite a lot and even when I manually change the font size it invariably switches back to a "10" in the process of writing, etc. So it is a big pain! Because WordPad uses defaults set by your overall configuration rather than having its own set of defaults, you can't change the default in WordPad permanently unless you're a serious Windows programming wizard. I really don't think you're gonna want to know that much about your system just for a problem with WordPad. Who does?  ![]() Here is a picture of what you should see. As you can seem the selected area should still appear selected while you are changing the font size. ![]() Many thanks to Desi of Words In A Row for help with this question.
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Tagged: Previous: How do I prevent Messenger saving usernames? Next: How do I have iTunes rip CDs into MP3 format? Reader Comments To Date: 7kathy said, on January 29, 2008 11:44 AM:
the ruler at the top of my wordpad is really small, when i type a line, it only goes upto no.4 on the ruler, about an inch long. ive tried dragging the pointers across but they stop at 4 too, please help me. andre said, on February 5, 2009 4:23 AM:
One super way I handle my wordpad is this. 1. I make an easily selected file, a dummy file, So I open WPad and press AltF, O, e . Now the key to your success is two things. 1. First the e.doc file has the text size that you 2. A quick way to get around some bothersome thing A. Name the e.doc document before you type or change Tips: If you make outlines and use font sizes and colors The reasoning is this. IF you want to quickly start This sounds like more work than you are asking about. And it is The reason I do this is because IF you keep all of your newly written text , made Yes it's more work than you asked for. Instead * (imagine that each letter going down is a differnt Now imagine that each letter going down is like T Go on doing this so that you can scroll to the Don't forget that Ctl-U, Ctl-B change the underline Last recommendation. Try with dilligence to learn Good luck. Macs4bg said, on July 16, 2009 11:24 AM:
Now, how do we change that horrible font in the iPhone 3gs notepad? It is basically illegible as is. Thank u! son0fhobs said, on September 1, 2011 5:06 PM:
I forgot where I read it, but along with the e.doc idea. Create a "default" file, with at least one character in it. Set all your formatting preferences and save it with a generic name, for me, wordpad.rtf. Setup the shortcut to open this file instead of the program. The one change, is go to file and set the permissions to read only. Thus, it'll force you to save it as a different filename, and you'll never overwrite the original. Brilliance. You can go one step further, and fix the icon, but that's for another day :-) Bob said, on March 18, 2013 4:07 PM:
I've read several web pages on how to set the default font for Wordpad. What everyone is leaving out is after making the font changes, save the new file with filetype RTF and file name filename.wri. If you save with filetype TXT or filename.txt, you lose the formatting and it returns to the Wordpad default. If you save as filename.rtf, you save the formatting, but it opens in Word. RCS said, on March 23, 2013 10:20 PM:
There is no real way to change WordPad's default font and font size—only a workaround. But why bother? Switch to Jarte! (I have no affiliation with them.) Jarte is "a word processor that covers all the basics, plus throws in a few juicy extra features you always wish Word had, like tabbed documents...” Learn more about Jarte and its features here: http://www.jarte.com/features.html
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Well, I was looking around for a way to change the font WordPad uses for text-only editing (as opposed to format-inclusive editing or whatever you want to call it when you have formatting too). See, I edit HTML documents with WordPad, but I would prefer something like Arial over this Courier stuff, and it's something that I can do in Notepad but haven't seen in WordPad yet. Unfortunately, if there's no way to set a default font, then setting a text-only display font other than Courier is probably impossible too. :(