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Group policy to disable changing defaults
Is there a group policy to disable users from changing the default settings
in Office 2007, Word in particular? |
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Group policy to disable changing defaults
Exactly what are you trying to achieve? Such a sledge hammer approach is
probably inappropriate. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "lehrdw" wrote in message ... Is there a group policy to disable users from changing the default settings in Office 2007, Word in particular? |
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Group policy to disable changing defaults
I am in a K12 school setting. We have students that change the font and set
that as the default or they change page layout and set that as the default. Other users then have to go back and switch back to the actual default setting. I want to prevent this from happening. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Exactly what are you trying to achieve? Such a sledge hammer approach is probably inappropriate. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "lehrdw" wrote in message ... Is there a group policy to disable users from changing the default settings in Office 2007, Word in particular? |
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Group policy to disable changing defaults
A better approach is to teach students to customize Word in every possible
way (including toolbar customization, creating styles, etc.) and have software that resets everything to its defaults when they quit Word or restart Windows. Our public library uses an application called Deep Freeze that does this (see http://www.faronics.com/html/deepfreeze.asp). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "lehrdw" wrote in message ... I am in a K12 school setting. We have students that change the font and set that as the default or they change page layout and set that as the default. Other users then have to go back and switch back to the actual default setting. I want to prevent this from happening. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Exactly what are you trying to achieve? Such a sledge hammer approach is probably inappropriate. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "lehrdw" wrote in message ... Is there a group policy to disable users from changing the default settings in Office 2007, Word in particular? |
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Group policy to disable changing defaults
And quite frankly, that is what I am after. I don't mind them changing and
customizing, just not changing the defaults for everyone else that uses that computer. But I don't want to put in another software package to do the job if I can do that with group policy. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: A better approach is to teach students to customize Word in every possible way (including toolbar customization, creating styles, etc.) and have software that resets everything to its defaults when they quit Word or restart Windows. Our public library uses an application called Deep Freeze that does this (see http://www.faronics.com/html/deepfreeze.asp). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "lehrdw" wrote in message ... I am in a K12 school setting. We have students that change the font and set that as the default or they change page layout and set that as the default. Other users then have to go back and switch back to the actual default setting. I want to prevent this from happening. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Exactly what are you trying to achieve? Such a sledge hammer approach is probably inappropriate. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "lehrdw" wrote in message ... Is there a group policy to disable users from changing the default settings in Office 2007, Word in particular? |
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Group policy to disable changing defaults
You will be more like to find assistance with this in the
microsoft.public.windows.group_policy newsgroup to which I have cross posted this for you. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "lehrdw" wrote in message ... And quite frankly, that is what I am after. I don't mind them changing and customizing, just not changing the defaults for everyone else that uses that computer. But I don't want to put in another software package to do the job if I can do that with group policy. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: A better approach is to teach students to customize Word in every possible way (including toolbar customization, creating styles, etc.) and have software that resets everything to its defaults when they quit Word or restart Windows. Our public library uses an application called Deep Freeze that does this (see http://www.faronics.com/html/deepfreeze.asp). -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "lehrdw" wrote in message ... I am in a K12 school setting. We have students that change the font and set that as the default or they change page layout and set that as the default. Other users then have to go back and switch back to the actual default setting. I want to prevent this from happening. "Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote: Exactly what are you trying to achieve? Such a sledge hammer approach is probably inappropriate. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "lehrdw" wrote in message ... Is there a group policy to disable users from changing the default settings in Office 2007, Word in particular? |
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