Jay
Mon Mar 03 14:50:11 PST 2008
Most settings that aren't stored in Normal.dotm are in various places in the
registry, mainly in the key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Data (see
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/DataKeySettings.htm). There are also
some entries under the key
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\Options.
The entries in the Data key are huge binary strings that aren't human-readable.
Don't try to copy them from one computer to the other, as you can't be sure the
values will be compatible. Instead, use the method in the "How to preserve your
Settings preferences" section of the article to record the options dialogs as
macros, and play them back on the other computer. That will still leave a few
miscellaneous things, but that's most of it.
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 12:51:01 -0800, jeffwv62 <jeffwv62@discussions.microsoft.com>
wrote:
>To another computer. Trying duplicate settings from one pc to another.
>Everything, except Word Options settings, are working fine when I copy
>Normal.dotm.
>
>"Tony Jollans" wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure what you mean when y ou say you copied normal.dotm over - over
>> where?
>>
>> Changes not keeping is usually a sign of a badly-behaved AddIn. Acrobat is
>> one of the worst offenders but by no means the only one.
>>
>> --
>> Enjoy,
>> Tony
>>
>> "jeffwv62" <jeffwv62@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:74B406F2-569C-4900-90CB-158E046195A2@microsoft.com...
>> > Where are the Word Options in Word 2007 stored? I edited NORMAL.dotm and
>> > copied that over, but changes in Word Options do not keep.
>> >
>> > Help is greatly appreciated.
>>
>>
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Regards,
Jay Freedman
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