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Backing up Word
Hi to everyone,
I wish to find out ways of backing up Office Word 2003 professional. In particular I would like to be able to manually backup my custom templates, auto text macros, other macros if this is possible. I would also like to keep such data off the C. drive in case I need to format. Are there any other areas that people routinely backup such as settings and configurations? Thanks in advance Sam |
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See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/FilesToBackup.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. "Sam Lewis" wrote in message ... Hi to everyone, I wish to find out ways of backing up Office Word 2003 professional. In particular I would like to be able to manually backup my custom templates, auto text macros, other macros if this is possible. I would also like to keep such data off the C. drive in case I need to format. Are there any other areas that people routinely backup such as settings and configurations? Thanks in advance Sam |
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Thanks Suzanne
I have read the link and the associated article "what do templates and add-ins store". These articles seem to refer to earlier versions of Word (prior to 2003) which may have thrown me a bit. For example User templates in Word 2003 did not appear to be stored in the start-up folder. At any rate I was able to find them and relocate them to be stored on a separate physical drive. It seems that the normal.dot was also moved to this new location. If so, this is great as I will be able to easily back them up manually and to preserve them should I format the C. drive etc. Some confusion with regards the use of the normal.dot. I gather from the articles that things like auto text macros such as boilerplate text or macros such as pressing F10 to jump to the next insertion point are stored within whatever template you have created them in. So if you backup this template you are effectively backing up your macros, auto text, customisations etc If I am understanding the article correctly you are suggesting NOT to create these within normal.dot. However, these sorts of boilerplates and macros I would like to have truly globally available to all my documents. I imagine you would achieve this by creating them within normal.dot? On the other hand I understand that if you are creating a specific user templates e.g. for a fax, then this would not be added to normal.dot but you would still start off using normal.dot and simply "save as" fax.dot or whatever. Sorry for my confusion Sam "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/FilesToBackup.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. "Sam Lewis" wrote in message ... Hi to everyone, I wish to find out ways of backing up Office Word 2003 professional. In particular I would like to be able to manually backup my custom templates, auto text macros, other macros if this is possible. I would also like to keep such data off the C. drive in case I need to format. Are there any other areas that people routinely backup such as settings and configurations? Thanks in advance Sam |
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User templates are not stored in the Startup folder unless they are intended
to be global. Global templates, like Normal.dot, can supply macros, AutoText, toolbars, and the like (but not styles or document layout) to all documents, regardless of what template they are based on. I imagine that the suggestion made in the article (which I did not write) is that instead of just moving your current Normal.dot to a new computer, you copy its customizations to a global template in your Startup folder and leave the default Normal.dot alone (especially if you are upgrading to a higher version). -- 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. "Sam Lewis" wrote in message ... Thanks Suzanne I have read the link and the associated article "what do templates and add-ins store". These articles seem to refer to earlier versions of Word (prior to 2003) which may have thrown me a bit. For example User templates in Word 2003 did not appear to be stored in the start-up folder. At any rate I was able to find them and relocate them to be stored on a separate physical drive. It seems that the normal.dot was also moved to this new location. If so, this is great as I will be able to easily back them up manually and to preserve them should I format the C. drive etc. Some confusion with regards the use of the normal.dot. I gather from the articles that things like auto text macros such as boilerplate text or macros such as pressing F10 to jump to the next insertion point are stored within whatever template you have created them in. So if you backup this template you are effectively backing up your macros, auto text, customisations etc If I am understanding the article correctly you are suggesting NOT to create these within normal.dot. However, these sorts of boilerplates and macros I would like to have truly globally available to all my documents. I imagine you would achieve this by creating them within normal.dot? On the other hand I understand that if you are creating a specific user templates e.g. for a fax, then this would not be added to normal.dot but you would still start off using normal.dot and simply "save as" fax.dot or whatever. Sorry for my confusion Sam "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/FilesToBackup.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. "Sam Lewis" wrote in message ... Hi to everyone, I wish to find out ways of backing up Office Word 2003 professional. In particular I would like to be able to manually backup my custom templates, auto text macros, other macros if this is possible. I would also like to keep such data off the C. drive in case I need to format. Are there any other areas that people routinely backup such as settings and configurations? Thanks in advance Sam |
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