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We are using Office 2007 and I would like to change our default font type and size on all computers in the company. I have createad a company template which is copied to each computers Word START folder and it runs perfectly. How/where can I make the correct changes in the company template to change the default font type and size? Currently I run a AutoExec in the company template that changes the 2 settings for me. /Lasse |
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Create a document template (or templates) for company documents set up to
reflect the company standards and insist that users adopt these templates for company documents. There is no need to mess around with the users' personal settings. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Lasse wrote: Hi We are using Office 2007 and I would like to change our default font type and size on all computers in the company. I have createad a company template which is copied to each computers Word START folder and it runs perfectly. How/where can I make the correct changes in the company template to change the default font type and size? Currently I run a AutoExec in the company template that changes the 2 settings for me. /Lasse |
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Hi Graham
Thanks for the reply. We already use a lot of company templates for letters and so on. These templates use Times New Roman, size 12 which is the company policy. When the users just open a new Word document I want it to force them to use Times New Roman, Size 12. I have done this now by adding the following lines to the AutoExec module in our company template (Template.dotm placed in the Word START folder): Selection.Font.Name = "Times New Roman" Selection.Font.Size = 12 I have tried changing the standard font and size when editing the template and then selecting the setting as default for the Template.dotm but when I open a new document it ignores it. I can't be the only one with the problem that MS suddenly changes the standard font and size and needs to change it? /Lasse "Graham Mayor" wrote: Create a document template (or templates) for company documents set up to reflect the company standards and insist that users adopt these templates for company documents. There is no need to mess around with the users' personal settings. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Lasse wrote: Hi We are using Office 2007 and I would like to change our default font type and size on all computers in the company. I have createad a company template which is copied to each computers Word START folder and it runs perfectly. How/where can I make the correct changes in the company template to change the default font type and size? Currently I run a AutoExec in the company template that changes the 2 settings for me. /Lasse |
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The autoexec macro in the startup template will only run when Word is first
started from the start menu or desktop shortcut. It does not run for each new document nor if Word is started by clicking a document in Explorer. The only solution is to edit each user's normal template to change the definition of the normal style. Why bother? Create document templates for the company documents and it is not an issue. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Lasse wrote: Hi Graham Thanks for the reply. We already use a lot of company templates for letters and so on. These templates use Times New Roman, size 12 which is the company policy. When the users just open a new Word document I want it to force them to use Times New Roman, Size 12. I have done this now by adding the following lines to the AutoExec module in our company template (Template.dotm placed in the Word START folder): Selection.Font.Name = "Times New Roman" Selection.Font.Size = 12 I have tried changing the standard font and size when editing the template and then selecting the setting as default for the Template.dotm but when I open a new document it ignores it. I can't be the only one with the problem that MS suddenly changes the standard font and size and needs to change it? /Lasse "Graham Mayor" wrote: Create a document template (or templates) for company documents set up to reflect the company standards and insist that users adopt these templates for company documents. There is no need to mess around with the users' personal settings. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Lasse wrote: Hi We are using Office 2007 and I would like to change our default font type and size on all computers in the company. I have createad a company template which is copied to each computers Word START folder and it runs perfectly. How/where can I make the correct changes in the company template to change the default font type and size? Currently I run a AutoExec in the company template that changes the 2 settings for me. /Lasse |
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Hi Graham
If a user wants to create a new document by pressing CTRL+N I want the new document to start with our Word settings, can that be done? /Lasse "Graham Mayor" wrote: The autoexec macro in the startup template will only run when Word is first started from the start menu or desktop shortcut. It does not run for each new document nor if Word is started by clicking a document in Explorer. The only solution is to edit each user's normal template to change the definition of the normal style. Why bother? Create document templates for the company documents and it is not an issue. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Lasse wrote: Hi Graham Thanks for the reply. We already use a lot of company templates for letters and so on. These templates use Times New Roman, size 12 which is the company policy. When the users just open a new Word document I want it to force them to use Times New Roman, Size 12. I have done this now by adding the following lines to the AutoExec module in our company template (Template.dotm placed in the Word START folder): Selection.Font.Name = "Times New Roman" Selection.Font.Size = 12 I have tried changing the standard font and size when editing the template and then selecting the setting as default for the Template.dotm but when I open a new document it ignores it. I can't be the only one with the problem that MS suddenly changes the standard font and size and needs to change it? /Lasse "Graham Mayor" wrote: Create a document template (or templates) for company documents set up to reflect the company standards and insist that users adopt these templates for company documents. There is no need to mess around with the users' personal settings. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Lasse wrote: Hi We are using Office 2007 and I would like to change our default font type and size on all computers in the company. I have createad a company template which is copied to each computers Word START folder and it runs perfectly. How/where can I make the correct changes in the company template to change the default font type and size? Currently I run a AutoExec in the company template that changes the 2 settings for me. /Lasse |
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Not without making yourself very unpopular with users. e.g. you could create
an add-in with an autoexec macro that copies all the preferences into normal.dot from the add-in each time Word is started from the startup icon then saves normal.dot with the new settings then closes the default document word creates and opens a new one from Normal.dot. This is not the way normal.dot is designed to be used and someone will screw it up. As I have already suggested the best way to deal with this is to create templates for company documents and insist that the users employ them to create company documents. Normal.dot is best used as a 'scratch pad' for personalisations -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Lasse wrote: Hi Graham If a user wants to create a new document by pressing CTRL+N I want the new document to start with our Word settings, can that be done? /Lasse "Graham Mayor" wrote: The autoexec macro in the startup template will only run when Word is first started from the start menu or desktop shortcut. It does not run for each new document nor if Word is started by clicking a document in Explorer. The only solution is to edit each user's normal template to change the definition of the normal style. Why bother? Create document templates for the company documents and it is not an issue. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Lasse wrote: Hi Graham Thanks for the reply. We already use a lot of company templates for letters and so on. These templates use Times New Roman, size 12 which is the company policy. When the users just open a new Word document I want it to force them to use Times New Roman, Size 12. I have done this now by adding the following lines to the AutoExec module in our company template (Template.dotm placed in the Word START folder): Selection.Font.Name = "Times New Roman" Selection.Font.Size = 12 I have tried changing the standard font and size when editing the template and then selecting the setting as default for the Template.dotm but when I open a new document it ignores it. I can't be the only one with the problem that MS suddenly changes the standard font and size and needs to change it? /Lasse "Graham Mayor" wrote: Create a document template (or templates) for company documents set up to reflect the company standards and insist that users adopt these templates for company documents. There is no need to mess around with the users' personal settings. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Lasse wrote: Hi We are using Office 2007 and I would like to change our default font type and size on all computers in the company. I have createad a company template which is copied to each computers Word START folder and it runs perfectly. How/where can I make the correct changes in the company template to change the default font type and size? Currently I run a AutoExec in the company template that changes the 2 settings for me. /Lasse |
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I agree on the part of leaving normal.dotm alone. I am currently creating a
new standard template with the correct settings and also a macro the users can run to get the settings. I have created some forms that the users can open through the Quick Access Toolbar and will make the template and macro available through them. We are an accounting company and people are very conservative and not always open to new things so I wanted to make it as simple as possible :-) Thanks for your replies. /Lasse "Graham Mayor" wrote: Not without making yourself very unpopular with users. e.g. you could create an add-in with an autoexec macro that copies all the preferences into normal.dot from the add-in each time Word is started from the startup icon then saves normal.dot with the new settings then closes the default document word creates and opens a new one from Normal.dot. This is not the way normal.dot is designed to be used and someone will screw it up. As I have already suggested the best way to deal with this is to create templates for company documents and insist that the users employ them to create company documents. Normal.dot is best used as a 'scratch pad' for personalisations -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Lasse wrote: Hi Graham If a user wants to create a new document by pressing CTRL+N I want the new document to start with our Word settings, can that be done? /Lasse "Graham Mayor" wrote: The autoexec macro in the startup template will only run when Word is first started from the start menu or desktop shortcut. It does not run for each new document nor if Word is started by clicking a document in Explorer. The only solution is to edit each user's normal template to change the definition of the normal style. Why bother? Create document templates for the company documents and it is not an issue. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Lasse wrote: Hi Graham Thanks for the reply. We already use a lot of company templates for letters and so on. These templates use Times New Roman, size 12 which is the company policy. When the users just open a new Word document I want it to force them to use Times New Roman, Size 12. I have done this now by adding the following lines to the AutoExec module in our company template (Template.dotm placed in the Word START folder): Selection.Font.Name = "Times New Roman" Selection.Font.Size = 12 I have tried changing the standard font and size when editing the template and then selecting the setting as default for the Template.dotm but when I open a new document it ignores it. I can't be the only one with the problem that MS suddenly changes the standard font and size and needs to change it? /Lasse "Graham Mayor" wrote: Create a document template (or templates) for company documents set up to reflect the company standards and insist that users adopt these templates for company documents. There is no need to mess around with the users' personal settings. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Lasse wrote: Hi We are using Office 2007 and I would like to change our default font type and size on all computers in the company. I have createad a company template which is copied to each computers Word START folder and it runs perfectly. How/where can I make the correct changes in the company template to change the default font type and size? Currently I run a AutoExec in the company template that changes the 2 settings for me. /Lasse |
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One method that a lot of lazy users find helpful is to put a shortcut to the
template on the desktop; then they can create a new document based on that template by double-clicking. Presumably you could also reassign Ctrl+N to a macro that would create a new document based on the template. Or you could create such a macro and name it FileNewDefault, and it would hijack the built-in Word command (so that Ctrl+N would automatically run it), but I wouldn't recommend that. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Lasse" wrote in message ... I agree on the part of leaving normal.dotm alone. I am currently creating a new standard template with the correct settings and also a macro the users can run to get the settings. I have created some forms that the users can open through the Quick Access Toolbar and will make the template and macro available through them. We are an accounting company and people are very conservative and not always open to new things so I wanted to make it as simple as possible :-) Thanks for your replies. /Lasse "Graham Mayor" wrote: Not without making yourself very unpopular with users. e.g. you could create an add-in with an autoexec macro that copies all the preferences into normal.dot from the add-in each time Word is started from the startup icon then saves normal.dot with the new settings then closes the default document word creates and opens a new one from Normal.dot. This is not the way normal.dot is designed to be used and someone will screw it up. As I have already suggested the best way to deal with this is to create templates for company documents and insist that the users employ them to create company documents. Normal.dot is best used as a 'scratch pad' for personalisations -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Lasse wrote: Hi Graham If a user wants to create a new document by pressing CTRL+N I want the new document to start with our Word settings, can that be done? /Lasse "Graham Mayor" wrote: The autoexec macro in the startup template will only run when Word is first started from the start menu or desktop shortcut. It does not run for each new document nor if Word is started by clicking a document in Explorer. The only solution is to edit each user's normal template to change the definition of the normal style. Why bother? Create document templates for the company documents and it is not an issue. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Lasse wrote: Hi Graham Thanks for the reply. We already use a lot of company templates for letters and so on. These templates use Times New Roman, size 12 which is the company policy. When the users just open a new Word document I want it to force them to use Times New Roman, Size 12. I have done this now by adding the following lines to the AutoExec module in our company template (Template.dotm placed in the Word START folder): Selection.Font.Name = "Times New Roman" Selection.Font.Size = 12 I have tried changing the standard font and size when editing the template and then selecting the setting as default for the Template.dotm but when I open a new document it ignores it. I can't be the only one with the problem that MS suddenly changes the standard font and size and needs to change it? /Lasse "Graham Mayor" wrote: Create a document template (or templates) for company documents set up to reflect the company standards and insist that users adopt these templates for company documents. There is no need to mess around with the users' personal settings. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Lasse wrote: Hi We are using Office 2007 and I would like to change our default font type and size on all computers in the company. I have createad a company template which is copied to each computers Word START folder and it runs perfectly. How/where can I make the correct changes in the company template to change the default font type and size? Currently I run a AutoExec in the company template that changes the 2 settings for me. /Lasse |
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Hi Suzanne
Thanks for your thoughts about the issue. I will stick to the template through our form. Before we upgraded to Office 2007 we had alot of customized shortcuts in Word 2003, and many of them was reassigned from standard Office shortcuts. This was a legacy from a previos IT admin. I have now successfully removed all customized shortcuts and they are not coming back :-) /Lasse "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: One method that a lot of lazy users find helpful is to put a shortcut to the template on the desktop; then they can create a new document based on that template by double-clicking. Presumably you could also reassign Ctrl+N to a macro that would create a new document based on the template. Or you could create such a macro and name it FileNewDefault, and it would hijack the built-in Word command (so that Ctrl+N would automatically run it), but I wouldn't recommend that. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Lasse" wrote in message ... I agree on the part of leaving normal.dotm alone. I am currently creating a new standard template with the correct settings and also a macro the users can run to get the settings. I have created some forms that the users can open through the Quick Access Toolbar and will make the template and macro available through them. We are an accounting company and people are very conservative and not always open to new things so I wanted to make it as simple as possible :-) Thanks for your replies. /Lasse "Graham Mayor" wrote: Not without making yourself very unpopular with users. e.g. you could create an add-in with an autoexec macro that copies all the preferences into normal.dot from the add-in each time Word is started from the startup icon then saves normal.dot with the new settings then closes the default document word creates and opens a new one from Normal.dot. This is not the way normal.dot is designed to be used and someone will screw it up. As I have already suggested the best way to deal with this is to create templates for company documents and insist that the users employ them to create company documents. Normal.dot is best used as a 'scratch pad' for personalisations -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Lasse wrote: Hi Graham If a user wants to create a new document by pressing CTRL+N I want the new document to start with our Word settings, can that be done? /Lasse "Graham Mayor" wrote: The autoexec macro in the startup template will only run when Word is first started from the start menu or desktop shortcut. It does not run for each new document nor if Word is started by clicking a document in Explorer. The only solution is to edit each user's normal template to change the definition of the normal style. Why bother? Create document templates for the company documents and it is not an issue. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Lasse wrote: Hi Graham Thanks for the reply. We already use a lot of company templates for letters and so on. These templates use Times New Roman, size 12 which is the company policy. When the users just open a new Word document I want it to force them to use Times New Roman, Size 12. I have done this now by adding the following lines to the AutoExec module in our company template (Template.dotm placed in the Word START folder): Selection.Font.Name = "Times New Roman" Selection.Font.Size = 12 I have tried changing the standard font and size when editing the template and then selecting the setting as default for the Template.dotm but when I open a new document it ignores it. I can't be the only one with the problem that MS suddenly changes the standard font and size and needs to change it? /Lasse "Graham Mayor" wrote: Create a document template (or templates) for company documents set up to reflect the company standards and insist that users adopt these templates for company documents. There is no need to mess around with the users' personal settings. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Lasse wrote: Hi We are using Office 2007 and I would like to change our default font type and size on all computers in the company. I have createad a company template which is copied to each computers Word START folder and it runs perfectly. How/where can I make the correct changes in the company template to change the default font type and size? Currently I run a AutoExec in the company template that changes the 2 settings for me. /Lasse |
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I agree that reassigning built-in shortcuts is not a good idea, at least not
for a workgroup (I have reassigned some of the ones I know I'll never use, but I work alone, and no one else uses my machine). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Lasse" wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne Thanks for your thoughts about the issue. I will stick to the template through our form. Before we upgraded to Office 2007 we had alot of customized shortcuts in Word 2003, and many of them was reassigned from standard Office shortcuts. This was a legacy from a previos IT admin. I have now successfully removed all customized shortcuts and they are not coming back :-) /Lasse "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: One method that a lot of lazy users find helpful is to put a shortcut to the template on the desktop; then they can create a new document based on that template by double-clicking. Presumably you could also reassign Ctrl+N to a macro that would create a new document based on the template. Or you could create such a macro and name it FileNewDefault, and it would hijack the built-in Word command (so that Ctrl+N would automatically run it), but I wouldn't recommend that. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Lasse" wrote in message ... I agree on the part of leaving normal.dotm alone. I am currently creating a new standard template with the correct settings and also a macro the users can run to get the settings. I have created some forms that the users can open through the Quick Access Toolbar and will make the template and macro available through them. We are an accounting company and people are very conservative and not always open to new things so I wanted to make it as simple as possible :-) Thanks for your replies. /Lasse "Graham Mayor" wrote: Not without making yourself very unpopular with users. e.g. you could create an add-in with an autoexec macro that copies all the preferences into normal.dot from the add-in each time Word is started from the startup icon then saves normal.dot with the new settings then closes the default document word creates and opens a new one from Normal.dot. This is not the way normal.dot is designed to be used and someone will screw it up. As I have already suggested the best way to deal with this is to create templates for company documents and insist that the users employ them to create company documents. Normal.dot is best used as a 'scratch pad' for personalisations -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Lasse wrote: Hi Graham If a user wants to create a new document by pressing CTRL+N I want the new document to start with our Word settings, can that be done? /Lasse "Graham Mayor" wrote: The autoexec macro in the startup template will only run when Word is first started from the start menu or desktop shortcut. It does not run for each new document nor if Word is started by clicking a document in Explorer. The only solution is to edit each user's normal template to change the definition of the normal style. Why bother? Create document templates for the company documents and it is not an issue. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Lasse wrote: Hi Graham Thanks for the reply. We already use a lot of company templates for letters and so on. These templates use Times New Roman, size 12 which is the company policy. When the users just open a new Word document I want it to force them to use Times New Roman, Size 12. I have done this now by adding the following lines to the AutoExec module in our company template (Template.dotm placed in the Word START folder): Selection.Font.Name = "Times New Roman" Selection.Font.Size = 12 I have tried changing the standard font and size when editing the template and then selecting the setting as default for the Template.dotm but when I open a new document it ignores it. I can't be the only one with the problem that MS suddenly changes the standard font and size and needs to change it? /Lasse "Graham Mayor" wrote: Create a document template (or templates) for company documents set up to reflect the company standards and insist that users adopt these templates for company documents. There is no need to mess around with the users' personal settings. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Lasse wrote: Hi We are using Office 2007 and I would like to change our default font type and size on all computers in the company. I have createad a company template which is copied to each computers Word START folder and it runs perfectly. How/where can I make the correct changes in the company template to change the default font type and size? Currently I run a AutoExec in the company template that changes the 2 settings for me. /Lasse |
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