How do you like your writing to look in a writing program?

Like, what font do you use? How big and what colour?

Do you leave your page white or do you change its colour?

I'm forever messing about with the settings in microsoft word, this is how mine looks at the moment:

I just honestly use Microsoft Word and start writing...I don't use any setting changes. The font I use pretty much all of the time is Courier New, or Times New Roman, always sized 12.

I always use size 16 for the chapter # and title, then 14 for the rest. I always write it in Comic sans font. I don't change colors or any other stuff.

I'm a times new roman 12pt kind of person. Occasionally I'll increase the font size because it's hard for me to look at depending on which screen I'm using.

I like having spaces between my paragraphs, but I generally don't write with double spacing in my lines. I've never gotten into writing with other fonts and strange ones and all that. It's never been me? It sounds like fun though, I know some people get a kick out of writing in special fonts. It's always been the words rather than how they look though, haha.

I've always just stuck with what Word has as it's default; Calibri 11pt. Sometimes I set it to 8pt because I like having all the words smushed up. I double-space my paragraphs, but not indiviual lines. I underline the title and might bold it too.

And I use the black vista skin =D

I always have 12 point Arial, I can't stand times new romans or bold font (dunno why).
And I always hve to have the view thing on print.

I had a phase where I went changing the fonts every five seconds, and then a phase of doing it in really tiny writing, mostly because then it makes nice neat little paragraphs, but now I just use Times New Roman, but always 11pt.

Can't stand doing it in 12 for some reason. It just seems too big and too spaced out.

Plus then all I have to do if I try and get it published is put in a header and footer and double space it.

I don't mess around with it. White page, black writing, Times New Roman, 12.

When I write essays and stuff for school I'll put the title in the middle, then make it bigger and change the font, but only for school stuff.

I don't mess around with any of the settings, but I only ever write on the WordPad function, never Microsoft Word. So my settings are automatically Arial, 10. And that suits me just fine.

I use default on the new Word -- Calibri, 11pt. I used to be a big fan of Georgia in about 9pt. but went past that phase. Now I'm just lucky to be writing in whatever font.

Loose wrote:I don't mess around with any of the settings, but I only ever write on the WordPad function, never Microsoft Word. So my settings are automatically Arial, 10. And that suits me just fine.

Yup, ditto.

Prokaryote

I always start writing in size 12 Times New Roman, and then when I finish a chapter I put everything into manuscipt format: courier new, double-spaced, size 12. Chapter headings shoudl be underlined, left, size 12 also. Italics should be underlined as it easier to read.

Lol, i guess it's just me then. Most of you seem to keep the defaults or keep it simple. I guess messing with the settings is just another way of procrastinating for me :p

lol

I always make a title page for all my long-term stories, where I have nice big elaborate fonts that fit whatever I'm writing at the moment. I don't really have chapter titles other than 'chapter one, chapter two, etc.' so I do those in size 32.

Normally I write Verdana or Tahoma size 12. I'm so used to those fonts that if I write in any other font, it tends to bother me. Like an itch or something =P