Applies To
Excel for Microsoft 365 Word for Microsoft 365 Outlook for Microsoft 365 PowerPoint for Microsoft 365 Access for Microsoft 365 Excel 2024 Word 2024 Outlook 2024 PowerPoint 2024 Access 2024 Excel 2021 Word 2021 Outlook 2021 PowerPoint 2021 Access 2021 Excel 2019 Word 2019 Outlook 2019 PowerPoint 2019 Access 2019 Excel 2016 Word 2016 Outlook 2016 PowerPoint 2016 Access 2016

In this dialog box, you select a pairing for the Heading and Body fonts for a template or theme.

  1. Choose a Heading font from the list.

  2. Choose a Body font.

  3. Type a Name for the font pairing you've selected.

    After you close the dialog box, the name of your custom font pairing will appear at the top of the Fonts list that you opened on the way to this dialog box.

Tips

  • Legibility is of paramount concern for presentation fonts.

  • Professional designers usually recommend a sans serif font for body type. Some instances of body type are fairly small, such as in table data or chart labels, and sans serif fonts are more legible in smaller sizes than serif fonts are.

  • Serif fonts are suitable for heading fonts.

  • Professional designers usually suggest that if you'll be sharing your presentation with others, don't be creative in your font selections. If a font you use isn't available on other peoples' computers when they view your presentation, a different font will be substituted for the missing one, causing text to be resized or misaligned.

Downloading fonts

The Create New Theme Fonts dialog box lets you choose from fonts that are already on your system. To learn how to download a font to your system, see Download and install custom fonts to use with Office.

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