Mar 31, 2016 - Don't know if this works differently on a Mac, but can you go to. Menu back, then you can apply Macro Man's answer to modify the font size.
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Microsoft Office for Mac is a suite of applications that includes Word for creating text documents and Excel for making spreadsheets. If you don’t want to use the default font in Office each time you create a new document, you can designate the font of your choice by changing the preferences settings. You have to quit Excel and Word and restart the applications before the new default font settings will take effect for future documents that you create.
Word
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Launch Microsoft Word and open a new blank document.
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Click “Font” on the Format menu and then click the “Font” tab.
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Click the Font pull-down menu and select the name of the font you want to set as the new default.
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Quit Word and then relaunch the application. New documents that you create will use the font you selected.
Excel
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Launch Microsoft Excel on your Mac and open a new blank document.
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Click the “Excel” menu and then click “Preferences.”
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Select the 'General' preferences in the Authoring section. Click the “Standard Font” drop-down menu and click the name of the font you want to set for the default. Click 'OK.'
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Quit Excel and then relaunch the application. New spreadsheets that you create will now use the default font you selected.
Warning
- Information in this article applies to Microsoft Office version 2011 running on Macs with the OS X 10.8 operating system. It may vary slightly or significantly with other versions or products.
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I'm using Microsoft Excel for Mac 2011 and by default, a new spreadsheet has a font size of 12 for cells. On a 4k screen resolution, font size 12 is a bit small, so I have selected the whole spreadsheet and updated every cell to now be font 16, however, whenever I paste a hyperlink, the font size on the cell becomes 12. Similarly, whenever I apply the preset format from the ribbon for Green background 'Good' it also becomes font size 12.
How can I change the default font size for this spreadsheet to be 16? Similarly, is there a way to change the default for all new spreadsheets to be 12?
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