normal.dot 97 to normal.dot 2003 issues

[Guest]

I am aware that there is a change in the normal.dot from office 97 to 2003.
I am looking for more information and advise to deal with this issue when
rolling out office 2003 to an organization.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Normal.dot should not be a shared file. To roll out customizations look at
custom document templates and other global templates. See
http://addbalance.com/word/movetotemplate.htm for step-by-step instructions
on moving / sharing / copying / backing-up customizations including
AutoText, AutoCorrect, keyboard assignments, toolbars, macros, etc.
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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
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[Graham Mayor]

There is no issue whatsoever with normal.dot. This is not a shared file, but
an individual user scratch pad, so leave it alone. Setup company standards
using shared document templates and standard functions using global add-ins.

Applying Word 2003 as an upgrade to an existing installation should preserve
user preferences.

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[Guest]

I am providing multiple users with new machines with a new xp/office 2003
build versues their old machines with 2000/office 97. I am concerned with
each personal users unique normal.dot and possbly ways to "reuse" their old
normal.dot and the settings stored in that template.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

See http://addbalance.com/word/movetotemplate.htm for step-by-step
instructions on moving / sharing / copying / backing-up customizations
including AutoText, AutoCorrect, keyboard assignments, toolbars, macros,
etc. You could make the old normal.dot into a new global template for each
user (giving template a different name like normal97.dot). You would want to
remove duplicate AutoText entries.
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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[Graham Mayor]

That's even more complicated to achieve and unfortunately there's no simple
way of doing it. Charles has covered all the bases.

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