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Where are Tools Options settings stored?
What file does MS use to store the settings that a user selects through Tools
Options? Are the Tools Options settings the only information stored in this file? |
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Where are Tools Options settings stored?
Sorry. I forgot to mention that I'm running Office 2003 under Windows XP Pro.
"Ann Scharpf" wrote: What file does MS use to store the settings that a user selects through Tools Options? Are the Tools Options settings the only information stored in this file? |
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Where are Tools Options settings stored?
See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...eySettings.htm .
Ann Scharpf wrote: What file does MS use to store the settings that a user selects through Tools Options? Are the Tools Options settings the only information stored in this file? |
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Where are Tools Options settings stored?
Thanks Garfield-n-Odie. This link did not address my problem. I was trying
not to bore people with too many details but I think I need to give more info to get a proper answer. I work at a site that just got one of those lovely "desktop management" contracts. You know, the ones where they drop a computer on your desk that isn't configured properly and give you an 800 number for telephone "support" that includes no tier 2 personnel. When we got our new computers our LARGE organization (we're only one site of many) was migrating from Office 97 (!) to Office 2003. The people who set up our computer profiles did NOT know what they were doing and told us that we had to use "Word 97-2003 & 6.0/95 - RTF" as our default document type because people using 97 would not be able to open the document created by others who'd already received their new machines. This was not at all true. Word documents are backwards compatible for editing all the way back to 97. Our problems with this default format are twofold: 1. The files are huge. 2. If you open the document a second time and do "save as" to save under a different name, Word changes the file type to an RTF file. I figured out last week that the default document type was the reason people were experiencing problem #2. Wrote up instructions and sent them to all the users at my site. Some users here are not happy that all the individual users have to make this correction for a problem that was caused by our super-duper desktop management company. Every time I have called the desktop management support team with an advanced problem like this, they act like I am speaking Martian. So I come to this page and try to get the answer to feed to them. So ... can anyone tell me what file contains the setting for the default document type? Is this a file that could be pushed from a server to users' machines? What other settings might be affected by this push? Thanks very much for sharing your wisdom. You have no idea how much I appreciate it. "garfield-n-odie" wrote: See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...eySettings.htm . Ann Scharpf wrote: What file does MS use to store the settings that a user selects through Tools Options? Are the Tools Options settings the only information stored in this file? |
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Where are Tools Options settings stored?
In Word 2003, I would save files as regular Word (.doc) files,
but in Tools | Options | Save, I would check the "Disable features introduced after: Microsoft Word 97" box. This is a "sticky" setting that Word 2003 should remember after the user sets it the first time, until the user changes it. I imagine this setting is stored in the Word data settings registry key, but I don't know how to directly access this particular setting in the registry. Ann Scharpf wrote: Thanks Garfield-n-Odie. This link did not address my problem. I was trying not to bore people with too many details but I think I need to give more info to get a proper answer. I work at a site that just got one of those lovely "desktop management" contracts. You know, the ones where they drop a computer on your desk that isn't configured properly and give you an 800 number for telephone "support" that includes no tier 2 personnel. When we got our new computers our LARGE organization (we're only one site of many) was migrating from Office 97 (!) to Office 2003. The people who set up our computer profiles did NOT know what they were doing and told us that we had to use "Word 97-2003 & 6.0/95 - RTF" as our default document type because people using 97 would not be able to open the document created by others who'd already received their new machines. This was not at all true. Word documents are backwards compatible for editing all the way back to 97. Our problems with this default format are twofold: 1. The files are huge. 2. If you open the document a second time and do "save as" to save under a different name, Word changes the file type to an RTF file. I figured out last week that the default document type was the reason people were experiencing problem #2. Wrote up instructions and sent them to all the users at my site. Some users here are not happy that all the individual users have to make this correction for a problem that was caused by our super-duper desktop management company. Every time I have called the desktop management support team with an advanced problem like this, they act like I am speaking Martian. So I come to this page and try to get the answer to feed to them. So ... can anyone tell me what file contains the setting for the default document type? Is this a file that could be pushed from a server to users' machines? What other settings might be affected by this push? Thanks very much for sharing your wisdom. You have no idea how much I appreciate it. "garfield-n-odie" wrote: See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...eySettings.htm . Ann Scharpf wrote: What file does MS use to store the settings that a user selects through Tools Options? Are the Tools Options settings the only information stored in this file? |
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Where are Tools Options settings stored?
I have a workable solution for the individual user. The instructions I wrote
showed the user how to change the default document type to ".doc" to store regular Word 2003 documents, as we should. The users are irritated because I keep writing instructions for them to fix the Desktop Management people's mistakes. They're tired of having to make little corrections to fix the problems caused by the uninformed people who set up our system. I was just trying to see if there was any way to automate the correction because I'm sure it affects hundreds of other users as well. Thanks anyway. "garfield-n-odie" wrote: In Word 2003, I would save files as regular Word (.doc) files, but in Tools | Options | Save, I would check the "Disable features introduced after: Microsoft Word 97" box. This is a "sticky" setting that Word 2003 should remember after the user sets it the first time, until the user changes it. I imagine this setting is stored in the Word data settings registry key, but I don't know how to directly access this particular setting in the registry. Ann Scharpf wrote: Thanks Garfield-n-Odie. This link did not address my problem. I was trying not to bore people with too many details but I think I need to give more info to get a proper answer. I work at a site that just got one of those lovely "desktop management" contracts. You know, the ones where they drop a computer on your desk that isn't configured properly and give you an 800 number for telephone "support" that includes no tier 2 personnel. When we got our new computers our LARGE organization (we're only one site of many) was migrating from Office 97 (!) to Office 2003. The people who set up our computer profiles did NOT know what they were doing and told us that we had to use "Word 97-2003 & 6.0/95 - RTF" as our default document type because people using 97 would not be able to open the document created by others who'd already received their new machines. This was not at all true. Word documents are backwards compatible for editing all the way back to 97. Our problems with this default format are twofold: 1. The files are huge. 2. If you open the document a second time and do "save as" to save under a different name, Word changes the file type to an RTF file. I figured out last week that the default document type was the reason people were experiencing problem #2. Wrote up instructions and sent them to all the users at my site. Some users here are not happy that all the individual users have to make this correction for a problem that was caused by our super-duper desktop management company. Every time I have called the desktop management support team with an advanced problem like this, they act like I am speaking Martian. So I come to this page and try to get the answer to feed to them. So ... can anyone tell me what file contains the setting for the default document type? Is this a file that could be pushed from a server to users' machines? What other settings might be affected by this push? Thanks very much for sharing your wisdom. You have no idea how much I appreciate it. "garfield-n-odie" wrote: See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...eySettings.htm . Ann Scharpf wrote: What file does MS use to store the settings that a user selects through Tools Options? Are the Tools Options settings the only information stored in this file? |
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Where are Tools Options settings stored?
The part of this article headed "How to preserve your Settings preferences"
should be of interest to you. Once you have set the Options the way you want for your users, you can distribute a macro to allow them to update their settings (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...buteMacros.htm). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Ann Scharpf" wrote in message ... Thanks Garfield-n-Odie. This link did not address my problem. I was trying not to bore people with too many details but I think I need to give more info to get a proper answer. I work at a site that just got one of those lovely "desktop management" contracts. You know, the ones where they drop a computer on your desk that isn't configured properly and give you an 800 number for telephone "support" that includes no tier 2 personnel. When we got our new computers our LARGE organization (we're only one site of many) was migrating from Office 97 (!) to Office 2003. The people who set up our computer profiles did NOT know what they were doing and told us that we had to use "Word 97-2003 & 6.0/95 - RTF" as our default document type because people using 97 would not be able to open the document created by others who'd already received their new machines. This was not at all true. Word documents are backwards compatible for editing all the way back to 97. Our problems with this default format are twofold: 1. The files are huge. 2. If you open the document a second time and do "save as" to save under a different name, Word changes the file type to an RTF file. I figured out last week that the default document type was the reason people were experiencing problem #2. Wrote up instructions and sent them to all the users at my site. Some users here are not happy that all the individual users have to make this correction for a problem that was caused by our super-duper desktop management company. Every time I have called the desktop management support team with an advanced problem like this, they act like I am speaking Martian. So I come to this page and try to get the answer to feed to them. So ... can anyone tell me what file contains the setting for the default document type? Is this a file that could be pushed from a server to users' machines? What other settings might be affected by this push? Thanks very much for sharing your wisdom. You have no idea how much I appreciate it. "garfield-n-odie" wrote: See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...eySettings.htm . Ann Scharpf wrote: What file does MS use to store the settings that a user selects through Tools Options? Are the Tools Options settings the only information stored in this file? |
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Where are Tools Options settings stored?
Hi, Suzanne:
Thank you for responding. I didn't find anything about preserving settings in the article linked to your post. I searched the MVP site and did find http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/FilesToBackup.htm .... Which seems to be another name for the page that Garfield sent me. I don't think this page has the info that I need, though, because "Save Word files as" is listed as an EXCEPTION. I think our users are just going to have to go into Tools Options and change the default document type to "Word Document." It's not that difficult. As I mentioned in another post, they're just becoming disgruntled because there have been several things they've had to fix because the Desktop Managment people who set up our account image apparently did not know what they were doing. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The part of this article headed "How to preserve your Settings preferences" should be of interest to you. Once you have set the Options the way you want for your users, you can distribute a macro to allow them to update their settings (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...buteMacros.htm). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Ann Scharpf" wrote in message ... Thanks Garfield-n-Odie. This link did not address my problem. I was trying not to bore people with too many details but I think I need to give more info to get a proper answer. I work at a site that just got one of those lovely "desktop management" contracts. You know, the ones where they drop a computer on your desk that isn't configured properly and give you an 800 number for telephone "support" that includes no tier 2 personnel. When we got our new computers our LARGE organization (we're only one site of many) was migrating from Office 97 (!) to Office 2003. The people who set up our computer profiles did NOT know what they were doing and told us that we had to use "Word 97-2003 & 6.0/95 - RTF" as our default document type because people using 97 would not be able to open the document created by others who'd already received their new machines. This was not at all true. Word documents are backwards compatible for editing all the way back to 97. Our problems with this default format are twofold: 1. The files are huge. 2. If you open the document a second time and do "save as" to save under a different name, Word changes the file type to an RTF file. I figured out last week that the default document type was the reason people were experiencing problem #2. Wrote up instructions and sent them to all the users at my site. Some users here are not happy that all the individual users have to make this correction for a problem that was caused by our super-duper desktop management company. Every time I have called the desktop management support team with an advanced problem like this, they act like I am speaking Martian. So I come to this page and try to get the answer to feed to them. So ... can anyone tell me what file contains the setting for the default document type? Is this a file that could be pushed from a server to users' machines? What other settings might be affected by this push? Thanks very much for sharing your wisdom. You have no idea how much I appreciate it. "garfield-n-odie" wrote: See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...eySettings.htm . Ann Scharpf wrote: What file does MS use to store the settings that a user selects through Tools Options? Are the Tools Options settings the only information stored in this file? |
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Where are Tools Options settings stored?
The link you were given was
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...eySettings.htm, which is an *entirely different* article from http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/FilesToBackup.htm. There is a link to the "How to preserve your settings preferences" section in the "Settings value" section on the first screen. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Ann Scharpf" wrote in message ... Hi, Suzanne: Thank you for responding. I didn't find anything about preserving settings in the article linked to your post. I searched the MVP site and did find http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/FilesToBackup.htm ... Which seems to be another name for the page that Garfield sent me. I don't think this page has the info that I need, though, because "Save Word files as" is listed as an EXCEPTION. I think our users are just going to have to go into Tools Options and change the default document type to "Word Document." It's not that difficult. As I mentioned in another post, they're just becoming disgruntled because there have been several things they've had to fix because the Desktop Managment people who set up our account image apparently did not know what they were doing. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The part of this article headed "How to preserve your Settings preferences" should be of interest to you. Once you have set the Options the way you want for your users, you can distribute a macro to allow them to update their settings (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...buteMacros.htm). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Ann Scharpf" wrote in message ... Thanks Garfield-n-Odie. This link did not address my problem. I was trying not to bore people with too many details but I think I need to give more info to get a proper answer. I work at a site that just got one of those lovely "desktop management" contracts. You know, the ones where they drop a computer on your desk that isn't configured properly and give you an 800 number for telephone "support" that includes no tier 2 personnel. When we got our new computers our LARGE organization (we're only one site of many) was migrating from Office 97 (!) to Office 2003. The people who set up our computer profiles did NOT know what they were doing and told us that we had to use "Word 97-2003 & 6.0/95 - RTF" as our default document type because people using 97 would not be able to open the document created by others who'd already received their new machines. This was not at all true. Word documents are backwards compatible for editing all the way back to 97. Our problems with this default format are twofold: 1. The files are huge. 2. If you open the document a second time and do "save as" to save under a different name, Word changes the file type to an RTF file. I figured out last week that the default document type was the reason people were experiencing problem #2. Wrote up instructions and sent them to all the users at my site. Some users here are not happy that all the individual users have to make this correction for a problem that was caused by our super-duper desktop management company. Every time I have called the desktop management support team with an advanced problem like this, they act like I am speaking Martian. So I come to this page and try to get the answer to feed to them. So ... can anyone tell me what file contains the setting for the default document type? Is this a file that could be pushed from a server to users' machines? What other settings might be affected by this push? Thanks very much for sharing your wisdom. You have no idea how much I appreciate it. "garfield-n-odie" wrote: See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...eySettings.htm . Ann Scharpf wrote: What file does MS use to store the settings that a user selects through Tools Options? Are the Tools Options settings the only information stored in this file? |
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