Word includes many features designed to make it work well with the Web. (Well, it included them starting with Word 2000 when Microsoft finally woke up to the Internet.) One such feature allows information to be saved in a Web-page format. This means you can create Web pages with Word, if desired.
The Web is a more limited environment than you may be used to in Word. One such area of limitation is in the fonts that are used. Typically, Web pages are constructed of one or two fonts, not the hundreds that are possible with Word. You can set the default fonts that Word uses when constructing Web pages by following these steps:
Figure 1. The General tab of the Options dialog box.
Figure 2. The Fonts tab of the Web Options dialog box.
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