Just like the specialized templates that you open when creating specific types of documents, the blank screen that you get when you create a new document is also based on a template–just with completely minimal formatting.Luckily, there’s a relatively easy way to change the default font in Microsoft Word. Many of us have our favorite fonts that we like to use, and if that happens to be something other than the default font in Microsoft Word, it can be tedious to manually change that every time you open up a new document.