You can see all the changes in Preview pane. From Effects, enable different font effects options. You can also set some extra font settings such as, Font color, Underline Style and Color. From Font select the font, under Font style select desired style and from Size change size for default font. You will reach Font main dialog, start changing default basic settings. To change default font setting, launch Word 2010, navigate to Home tab and from Font group, click small button at the right-bottom of group area. In this post we will be guiding you through step-by-step procedure of changing default font settings and styles.

Word 2010 default font is Calibri, which is still not that much popular among users, but Word 2010 is flexible enough to let users change the default font settings.