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Hi,
I really need to restore all the original default settings for Word 2007,
so that it is set up the way it was when I first installed it. Please,
Please, help! I would greatly appreciate it.
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For the most part, you can do this by performing the following two steps:

1. Delete or rename Normal.dotm (delete or rename any leftover Normal.dot
files from earlier versions of Word, too, if you have any); and,

2. Delete or rename the Word entry in the registry. It's located he

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\W ord

I say "for the most part" because there are additional but less noticeable
things that are stored in other files.

You can do this more thoroughly by creating a new user profile on your
computer. A new "environment" for Word will be created, and it will appear
as first installed.


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I really need to restore all the original default settings for Word 2007,
so that it is set up the way it was when I first installed it. Please,
Please, help! I would greatly appreciate it.


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With Word not running, rename the Normal.Dotm template to OldNormal.Dotm and
then restart Word.

The templates are usualling located in the c:\Documents and Setting\[User
Name]\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates folder.

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I really need to restore all the original default settings for Word 2007,
so that it is set up the way it was when I first installed it. Please,
Please, help! I would greatly appreciate it.



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