Windows – Change the DEFAULT console window font in Windows 10

You need to create a new default template that will load at startup. They didn't make it easy to do in Office 2007! But here's how:

1. Open a new blank worksheet.
2. Insert > Hyperlink > Paste in any link
3. Home > Styles > Right click on the 'Hyperlink style' > Modify > Set your font options
4. You probably will want to do the same for the 'Followed Hyperlink' style
5. Delete the hyperlink.
6. File > Save As > Other formats
7. Browse to "%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Excel\XLSTART" (Copy/Paste that into the File name field and press Enter to get there easily)
8. Save as type: Excel Template (.xltx)
9. File name: Book.xltx

Now whenever you start Excel or create a new workbook, the hyperlink font should be the one you choose.

This Microsoft support article helped me: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822107 look here for where to save templates for Office 2003, or to see other ways of loading your template.

Windows has no such notion of "default" fonts. Many developers pick something like Lucida Console or Courier New (or Consolas for Vista+ systems) simply because they're built into Windows. The next best thing you can do is remove the font that you don't want to see and use the FontSubstitutes registry key to make sure that any application requesting that font gets the one you want instead.

The only part I'm not sure about is if it's going to be easy to remove built-in fonts without tripping Windows File Protection.