Can I make permanent changes to all of the "save" options?

[Guest]

I'd like to make the following changes apply to all future documents (when I
open a blank document or create a "new blank document"):

Disable "Embed linguistic data"
Disable "Embed smart tags"
Enable "Embed TrueType fonts"

Currently, when I make these changes, they only apply to the document I have
open already. Changes made to other options seem to stick, but not these. I
DO dictate text sometimes, but I never want to save the data in the document.
Anybody have any suggestions?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You would have to make the change in Normal.dot (though I don't recommend
it). See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/CustomizeNormalTemplate.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

Have a play with this:

Sub AutoNew()
With ActiveDocument
If .EmbedSmartTags = True Then .EmbedSmartTags = False
If .EmbedLinguisticData = True Then .EmbedLinguisticData = False
End With
End Sub


Note that I don't do TrueType because it's usually off by default.

Cheers

I'd like to make the following changes apply to all future documents (when I
open a blank document or create a "new blank document"):

Disable "Embed linguistic data"
Disable "Embed smart tags"
Enable "Embed TrueType fonts"

Currently, when I make these changes, they only apply to the document I have
open already. Changes made to other options seem to stick, but not these. I
DO dictate text sometimes, but I never want to save the data in the document.
Anybody have any suggestions?

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John McGhie <[email protected]>
Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer
Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410

 

[Guest]

Thank you!
John thanks for the idea, but the link Suzanne posted was exactly what I was
looking for. Thanks again Suzanne.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Glad I could help.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]]

I hope it works for you... The reason I didn't suggest it is because I
believe that the specific parameters you mentioned are not in the Normal
template. As far as I know, they're registry entries or per-document
settings.

However, Suzanne is usually right

I use a macro because at a previous workplace the kindly system
administrator had set those things "ON" and locked us out of the registry so
we couldn't get the "OFF" setting to stick.

I developed the macro to simply override the login setting

Cheers

Thank you!
John thanks for the idea, but the link Suzanne posted was exactly what I was
looking for. Thanks again Suzanne.

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Sydney, Australia +61 (0) 4 1209 1410

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

In this case, you may well be right. I still don't advise wholesale
embedding of fonts.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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[Guest]

Suzanne:

Thanks for your answer on this one. I, as well, have found this freak
feature of Word one of the most obnoxious of all. There are times where I'm
tasked with working with rather large doc lists--thumbing through et al. It
has more than driven me nuts to have that freak dialog box constantly appear
on every single doc regardless of whether I'd just opened it and shut it down
or know that I'd changed it.

jl