[Tex/LaTex] the simplest way to typeset an entire document in sans-serif

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How do I typeset an entire document in sans-serif, e.g. Helvetica, without littering the document with font changes for every heading/paragraph, etc.? Like in How to set the font for a \section title (and chapter etc), but with the paragraphs all in sans-serif.

For example, I've seen documents typeset in Computer Modern and then switched to Palatino, but can I do the same with Helvetica with a few commands at the beginning?

(And please don't tell me to use a serif font for body copy / paragraphs. I know. I'm trying to use latex to typeset my resume to look like the one I've created in a word processor, which is hard to maintain but looks good. I'm hoping latex will let me do more advanced formatting/layout, separating content from form.)

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\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault} will switch to using sans-serif for everything except mathematics. The sans-serif will be computer modern sans unless you also put \usepackage{helvet} in the preamble in order to make the default sans be Helvetica (or \usepackage{avant} for Avant-Garde, etc.

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[Tex/LaTex] upright sans serif fonts in mathematics (computer modern)

If I understand your question correctly, you are trying to get a document typeset using a sans-serif font rather than the "ordinary" serif font. In addition, you want the font that's used in math to be upright rather than "slanted". The only math font I'm familiar with that's upright rather than slanted is the so-called "Euler" font; it goes reasonably well with Computer Modern fonts, both serif and sans-serif. If the Euler font suits your needs, you should add the following commands to the preamble of your document:

\renewcommand{\encodingdefault}{T1}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
\usepackage{eulervm}

[Tex/LaTex] Typeset WHOLE document in sans-serif, Including Math Mode

The answer, as I have pieced together, appears here on one page, for posterity.

The package sansmath ...

...is designed to offer sans-serif mathematics in the absence of proper sans maths fonts. After \usepackage{sansmath}, a new “math version” sans is deﬁned, together with a command \sansmath, which behaves as \boldmath does. -from the documentation

So the MWE becomes:

\documentclass[]{article}

\usepackage{helvet}
\renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault}
\usepackage{sansmath} % Enables turning on sans-serif math mode, and using other environments
\sansmath % Enable sans-serif math for rest of document

\usepackage[math]{blindtext}

\begin{document}

Text looks particularly bad when you have $123,400$ number-only equations in-line.

\blindmathpaper

\end{document}

Which results in:

example sans math

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