Are you tired of your Word 2003 documents having the Times New Roman font whenever you create a new document? You can change it with these steps:

1. Open Word and change the font to the font you wish to be the default.

2. Click File > Save As…

3. Change Save as type to Document Template (*.dot)

4. Give the file a name. In this case we named it Arial.dot

5. Click Save.

6. Close Word.

7. Navigate to C:\Documents and Settings \ username \ Application Data \ Microsoft \ Templates

8. Delete Normal.dot.

9. Rename the .dot file you create (Arial.dot) to Normal.dot.

Word will now open with the default font set as you wish.

Note: This method from Microsoft did not work for us. It gave an error Word cannot give a document the same name as an open document. Type a different name for the document you want to save.