The same normal.dotm at first for all users of student PCs

[Shirley]

Here's the problem:
Students shall log in to Vista computers using their own personal login
names. I've found useful tips on where the personal Normal.dotm is generally
stored and where its default path dan be defined/changed.
Still, how to make MS Office 2007 Word understand that each student
should get the same Normal.dotm that has been fine tuned to the document
standard of our country when they open Word 2007 the first time. It would
then ideally be copied as their personal Normal.dotm to the default folder.
Such a template could, of course, be situated somewhere else to be used
by commands Office button > New.- Which of the categories is the most
sensible one to store the template in that case?

 

[Tony Jollans]

It would

then ideally be copied as their personal Normal.dotm to the default
folder.

Word is not the tool to do this with; it needs doing before Word starts, and
should be handled either when the userids are created, or by a logon script.

 

[Shirley]

Thank you tony!
I kind of thought it would come to that. We shall have to go deeper.
Shirley

 

[Shirley]

Another approach to creation of a template file:
Let's imagine that the personal Normal.dotm files of all users of a PC
were deleted, where is the file with default settings that Word 2007 uses to
create a new Normal.dotm and what is the name of the file?
How could one change the contents of that file?

 

[Graham Mayor]

The new default normal.dotm is created whenever that file is not present in
the user templates folder and the user takes the option to save changes when
Word is closed (or Word is allowed to save the changes automatically). You
could then edit that file to provide the results you require. For students
especially with shared access (and I would not recommend this method for
other users, who should have the facility to retain normal template
personalisations) you could arrange for that edited file to be copied to the
user's User Templates folder on log-in to replace any existing normal
template in that folder. For business users, it would be better to create
document templates for company documents and leave the normal template to
the user.


Shirley wrote:

 

[Jay Freedman]

.... and to answer Shirley's question directly, there is no "file with default
settings" to modify. The default settings are stored within the Word program and
can't be modified.

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[Shirley]

Thank you very much Graham!
So nice to deal with true professionals.

 

[Shirley]

Thank you Jay for clarifying things!