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Today I Learned

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Save default styles

I use Google Docs for both work and personal stuff. I always change the default font in new documents because I find Arial gross. Given how simplistic Google Docs is when it comes to styles (eg. no custom styles such as code) I had always assumed that it offered no way to save them for all new documents.

It turns out that it does offer this feature, though it is buried in a place that wasn’t obvious to me:

Format → Paragraph styles → Options → Save as my default styles

Screenshot of Google Docs menus showing the path to saving default styles

Google loves to move things around, so no doubt this will become incorrect at some point.