Thursday, December 18, 2008

Modify Default Template in MS Word

Here is something i tried while working with MS Word.
The problem i faced was, everytime i used create a new word doc, i had to repeat some of the formatting stuff like inserting page number, setting font etc.
The solution i tried was to find out and modify the default template that MS word offers you to edit andsave as a word document. It's called normal.dot. Here are the steps to modify it -
1. Open MS Word.
2. File -> Open -> In the open dialog box go to this location in you machine C:\Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates
and select Normal.dot (Make sure in open file dialog box you have Document Templates (*.dot) selected against 'Files of Type').
3. Open this template and do whatever setting you want to have by default whenever you open MS Word to create a new doc (like font, font size, page numbers etc.)
4. Save and close.
That's it!
Now next time you open MS Word, you will see all the setting done in effect.

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