How can i permanently change the font settings on an env return ad

[Guest]

Every time I change the font on my envelope return address, Word 2007 asks if
i want to change the default address. I say yes. Next time Word reverts to
the original font and size. Why should it be so hard to create and save a
personalized return address?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It's possible that Normal.dotm is not being saved when you quit Word.

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[Graham Mayor]

It is also possible that it is changing the default *address* as prompted.
Addresses are not stored with formatting.
See http://www.gmayor.com/changing_envelope_layout.htm with respect to the
Envelope Return paragraph style and for more adventurous return address
formatting see http://www.gmayor.com/Alternative_Return_Addresses.htm

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[Guest]

This puzzled me today (in Word 2002) until I had a chance to revisit it later
and look at one key word in Microsoft's dialog box. When you have a document
open and go to tools|letters and mailings|envelopes and labels, change the
font, make it the default and look at the message. It says that this will
become part of the normal.dot for all NEW documents. Sure enough, even
though my old document did not hold the font change, when I opened a new
document and viewed the font for the delivery address it had been changed to
the specified new default.

That said, I'm not sure why you can't change it permanently in an existing
document. I tested this earlier today on one computer and the settings did
not hold. I just tested it on another computer and the settings did hold for
the existing document in addition to new document, so perhaps it is a matter
of whether the normal.dot is getting the message.

If anyone can further explain the hold/not holding the settings issue and
what to do to get the normal.dot to "get the message" I'd appreciate the
advice.

 

[Jay Freedman]

The way the Default button makes the change for new documents is by altering
the definition of the Envelope Address style in the Normal.dot template. As
explained in http://www.shaunakelly.com/word/templaterelations/index.html,
when you create a document (or an envelope) from a template, the document
inherits the template's styles, and then the connection is severed -- any
later changes in the template will not be carried forward into the document
unless you take a specific action to force an update.

To change the style, and thus the appearance, of existing envelopes, you
will have to modify the Envelope Address style in each existing document (or
use a macro to open each document in turn, change the style, and save/close
the document).

On the computer where the changed default did affect an existing document,
the style might be marked with "Automatically update". However, that's a
dangerous setting, as explained in
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/WholeDocumentReformatted.htm.

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[Jay Freedman]

Sorry, I should have read a bit further down... the style you need to change
is Envelope Return rather than Envelope Address.

 

[Guest]

Thank you, Jay.

I stand corrected. I see that my existing documents still have the old
style and that I had confused the changes with those in a a new document that
I had created for testing. Thanks also for the links and the heads up on the
"automatically update" feature.