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Best practice for setting default font settings in Word 2007



 
 
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Old April 28th, 2010, 07:20 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
mariann
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Default Best practice for setting default font settings in Word 2007

Could anyone tell me what Microsoft's "Best Practice" is for a company to
change the default font settings in Word 2007? For example, if I wanted to
change the default font to Times New Roman for all new documents and push
this out to the company - does best practice remain the same as in Word 2003?
Or has it changed with the inclusion of the default document settings and
themes?

Thanks so much!
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Old April 29th, 2010, 03:40 AM posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
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Default Best practice for setting default font settings in Word 2007

I am not sure how you did it in Word 2003, but in either case, I would not
rely on customizing the Normal.dot template. You should create separate
templates for your company documents that are configured with the Styles
that you want to be used and then distribute those to your users.

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"Mariann" wrote in message
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Could anyone tell me what Microsoft's "Best Practice" is for a company to
change the default font settings in Word 2007? For example, if I wanted
to
change the default font to Times New Roman for all new documents and push
this out to the company - does best practice remain the same as in Word
2003?
Or has it changed with the inclusion of the default document settings and
themes?

Thanks so much!


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Old April 29th, 2010, 05:48 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
mariann
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Default Best practice for setting default font settings in Word 2007

Thanks, Doug - would you use style sets then since they are saved as separte
templates along with the document defaults?

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:

I am not sure how you did it in Word 2003, but in either case, I would not
rely on customizing the Normal.dot template. You should create separate
templates for your company documents that are configured with the Styles
that you want to be used and then distribute those to your users.

--
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, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com

"Mariann" wrote in message
...
Could anyone tell me what Microsoft's "Best Practice" is for a company to
change the default font settings in Word 2007? For example, if I wanted
to
change the default font to Times New Roman for all new documents and push
this out to the company - does best practice remain the same as in Word
2003?
Or has it changed with the inclusion of the default document settings and
themes?

Thanks so much!


 




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