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Change the default Font and size in a network environment
Dear people,
Im an administrator of a network with over 300 workstations. Our company has decided that the default font has to be Arial 10 pt from now on. Where the default font was Times new Roman 12 Pt. So I have to change the default font on over 300 computers in our network. Is there an easy way of doing this? I was thinking about replacing the Normal.dot but are there more settings involved with this normal.dot file. I would like to do this by using a GPO but I couldn't find anything about this. Please help me to save me a lot of work. With Kind regards. Thony |
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Change the default Font and size in a network environment
Provide a shared document template (or templates) set-up as you want and
instruct users to create their documents from that. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Thony wrote: Dear people, I'm an administrator of a network with over 300 workstations. Our company has decided that the default font has to be Arial 10 pt from now on. Where the default font was Times new Roman 12 Pt. So I have to change the default font on over 300 computers in our network. Is there an easy way of doing this? I was thinking about replacing the Normal.dot but are there more settings involved with this normal.dot file. I would like to do this by using a GPO but I couldn't find anything about this. Please help me to save me a lot of work. With Kind regards. Thony |
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Change the default Font and size in a network environment
This is not what I mean. Our users are not to clever as I may say. It has to
be an solution where there is no action required from the end users. "Graham Mayor" wrote: Provide a shared document template (or templates) set-up as you want and instruct users to create their documents from that. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Thony wrote: Dear people, I'm an administrator of a network with over 300 workstations. Our company has decided that the default font has to be Arial 10 pt from now on. Where the default font was Times new Roman 12 Pt. So I have to change the default font on over 300 computers in our network. Is there an easy way of doing this? I was thinking about replacing the Normal.dot but are there more settings involved with this normal.dot file. I would like to do this by using a GPO but I couldn't find anything about this. Please help me to save me a lot of work. With Kind regards. Thony |
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Change the default Font and size in a network environment
Hi Thony
Thony wrote: This is not what I mean. Our users are not to clever as I may say. It has to be an solution where there is no action required from the end users. you either setup a template once, and instruct your users: not so much work, and your users get smarter. Or you force a normal.dot(x/m) on all your users. You don't gain much (because, when a user wants another font or size, he'll get it anyway), and your users don't get smarter in using Word. And it's probably more work for you that way. You do the choosing. :-) Greetings Robert -- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | MS \ / | MVP X Against HTML | for / \ in e-mail & news | Word |
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Change the default Font and size in a network environment
You did ask for an easy way. Templates are easily the best way to enforce
company standards. The alternative is to update 300 PCs! If you have setup your network for users to share a startup folder then you could create a global add-in for this folder containing the macro Sub AutoExec() Dim sTemp As Document Dim sPath As String sPath = NormalTemplate.Path MsgBox sPath ChangeFileOpenDirectory sPath Set sTemp = Documents.Open(FileName:="Normal.dot") With sTemp.Styles(wdStyleNormal).Font .Name = "Arial" .Size = 10 End With sTemp.Close SaveChanges:=wdSaveChanges End Sub This will reset the normal template to Arial 10 point whenever Word is started, but it would irritate the hell out of me -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Thony wrote: This is not what I mean. Our users are not to clever as I may say. It has to be an solution where there is no action required from the end users. "Graham Mayor" wrote: Provide a shared document template (or templates) set-up as you want and instruct users to create their documents from that. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Thony wrote: Dear people, I'm an administrator of a network with over 300 workstations. Our company has decided that the default font has to be Arial 10 pt from now on. Where the default font was Times new Roman 12 Pt. So I have to change the default font on over 300 computers in our network. Is there an easy way of doing this? I was thinking about replacing the Normal.dot but are there more settings involved with this normal.dot file. I would like to do this by using a GPO but I couldn't find anything about this. Please help me to save me a lot of work. With Kind regards. Thony |
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