I have encountered an annoyance that should probably be solvable if I had the guts to play around with various Style commands, but I’m (a) chicken and (b) lazy. So I have come here in hopes that someone else has already figured out how to do what I want.

I do most of my work on a Macintosh, for which my preferred default fonts are Helvetica (sans serif), Times (serif), and Courier (monospaced). I also do maybe 20% of my work on Windows machines, for which my preferred default fonts are Arial (sans serif), Times New Roman (serif), and Courier New (monospaced).

I’ve recently transferred over to my Mac a file originally created under Windows, and of course it thinks that I still want to use Arial (specifically Arial 16-point) every time I add a new field. And that’s what it does, not only when defining new fields or adding them from the Field Picker but even if I copy some pre-existing Helvetica fields from one of my Mac files and paste them in (tho thankfully it only changes to Arial, not also to 16-point). I’ve had to tediously go thru each layout, select everything, and manually change it all to Helvetica (being careful to dodge around fields formatted in, say, Courier). But all the new fields I add are still in Arial.

What I used to be able to do prior to FMP 12 was specify the default font just by having nothing whatsoever selected, going to the Format menu, and selecting Font > Helvetica. This no longer works, as everything under the Format menu is now grayed out if nothing is selected. I gather that what I’m supposed to do instead is modify the default Style (I’m using the inherited Classic) so that it generates Helvetica fields and text objects instead of Arial.

How does one go about doing that?