I hate the Calibri font. I have eyesight issues and it is simply too small. It also is never the font I'm supposed to write book reviews and other items in. However, I had to reinstall Word 2019 and its default is Calibri 11. That's of the Dark Side. How can I remove Calibri forever from all Office applications? Or, at least force Word to never ever use that? Thanks.

The only way to force Word to never use Calibri is to uninstall the Calibri font from Windows. This may have unwanted side effects.

If you routinely use the default new blank document, which you shouldn't, you need to edit the Normal.dotm template to use a different font.

If you use your own templates, which you should, simply change them to use your own preferred font.

The simplest way to do this is create your own Office Theme. From the Design tab apply the fonts and colours you want to use then from the Themes menu select Save Current Theme.

More resources:

• Change Default Settings by Suzanne Barnhill, MVP
• [Quick] Style Sets and Word Themes in Microsoft Word
• Themes

What you want to be doing is changing the Theme Font in your templates. This underlies all of the built-in Styles used by Word.

If you regularly use Word you owe it to yourself to learn about styles because they are the base level of Word formatting.

• The Importance of Styles in Microsoft Word
• 3. Using Styles to Format Text

I strongly recommend going through each of these short tutorials on Word to save on frustration. I learned from them after using Word for years.
Basic Concepts of Microsoft Word - from Shauna Kelly (including especially)
· 1. Start typing your new document
· 2. Rules for Typing in Word
· 2.1 Why you should not press Enter at the end of every line
· 2.2 Why you should press Enter only once to end a paragraph
· 2.3 Why you should use one space after each sentence
· 3. Using Styles to Format Text
· 4. Use Tables and Tabs to Arrange Text in Microsoft Word
· 5. Use a bulleted paragraph style for bullets and dotpoints
· 6. Make changes, fix mistakes, edit your document
· 7. Use page numbering and let the text flow from page to page
· 8. Print your document

Word is not a typewriter, nor is it any other word processing program you may have learned. It works according to rules that are not necessarily intuitive. Spending a little time learning to use this tool will keep you from hitting yourself on the thumb with a hammer. It will save you time and frustration.


I promise that you will be glad that you did even if you have been using Word for a long time. Microsoft has worked hard to cover up the complexity of Word. For simple use, you do not need to know much, but once you start trying to really use its features, it becomes frustrating unless you have some basic understanding. Shauna's tutorials help you gain that understanding quickly.