Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated June 23, 2023)
This tip applies to Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and 2021
Jon has a document that uses three different fonts in various places and for various purposes. He needs to change one of these fonts to a different one, without affecting any of the text formatted with the other two fonts. He wonders if there is a way to do this.
The easiest way to make this change would be to use styles. For instance, if you had created three styles, one for each of the fonts you use "for various purposes" in your document, then you could easily modify one of the styles to use the new font. This would, in turn, affect all of the text in the document that uses that style, without affecting any of the text that uses the other styles.
If your document doesn't use styles, then making the change gets a bit trickier, but it can be done without too much trouble. The standard way of doing this is to simply use Find and Replace, as illustrated in these steps:
Figure 1. The Find Font dialog box.
The changes in your document should not affect anything (like the other two fonts) that do not match the specifications you use in step 5.
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