I don't have 2003, but a hint is this:
- Right-click on the number to bring up a context menu. In my version of Word, there is a choice "Adjust List Indents" that brings up settings for list indentation and so on.
- Here you can change the font as well.
Hopefully you can even find this now that you know that they named the feature "Adjust List Indents"... :D
The italic letters in Word 2007 Equation Editor are not normal letters in italic but special characters from the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block in Unicode. For example, when you type “C” in Equation Editor, it gets converted to U+1D436 MATHEMATICAL ITALIC CAPITAL C.
Such characters and their glyphs have been designed for mathematical usage. This is reflected in their spacing. And their design is genuinely italic. In contrast, if you take a letter in the Cambria Math font and apply Ctrl I to it, Word uses “fake italic” or “engineering italic”, which means just algorithmic slanting. The letters get excessively slanted and do not change their basic form. This can easily be seen by comparing italic “a” in Cambria Math and U+1D44E MATHEMATICAL ITALIC SMALL A.
To enter a mathematical italic character outside Equation Editor, enter its Unicode number (the characters “U+” may be omitted if the preceding character is not a digit or a letter A–F or X) and press Alt X. Alternative, use the Insert → Symbol command, set font to Cambria Math, and scroll down the table of characters down to the last part to “Extended characters – Plane 1” or use the dropdown to get there.
If you wish to use such characters frequently, the best way is probably to set up a keyboard layout for them, using MSKLC.
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To change the theme fonts for the current document, go to the Design menu and select a new set of fonts from the Fonts dropdown (about 2/3 of the way along the ribbon).
You can save the current theme + any such modifications by clicking "Set as default". However, that does not change the theme itself - if you create another document and select the same theme, the theme properties are the "factory default" ones (i.e. the ones defined by Microsoft).
As for the comment that the headline/body fonts are "the wrong way around," Yes, the available choices in the fonts dropdown seem very limited
ISTR that it has been noticed that the Mac Word choice, i.e. Times for headers and Arial for body text, is the opposite of the Windows Word choice. But I'd have to check that to be sure.
I cannot see any simple way within the Mac Word User Interface (again, not sure about the Windows side) to make your own choices. Word's Object Model does not seem to have any direct way to deal with this either. The expectation from Word 2007 onwards seems to be that you work with various XML files to achieve what you need, but as usual, the available documentation does not seem particularly informative as to how you modify the factory-supplied styles.
However, with VBA, even on the Mac side, in Word 2011 it is possible to export the "ThemeFontScheme" for the current theme for a document. That creates a .xml file that you can edit (e.g. swap Arial and Times around) and then re-import.
For example, to export the ThemeFontScheme from the Active Document to a file, you can use VBA like this:
You should then be able to edit that XML (e.g. in Mac OS X TextEdit) to define the fonts you need. I won't attempt the details right now but will try to edit this Answer when I have had a better look.
Save the resulting file. Then, you can re-import the FontScheme into the current document, using, e.g.
As you can tell, this is not a familiar area for me either!