How to set default margins for all new users who log in?

Hi =?Utf-8?B?S2VpdGg=?=,

So how do you create a template that is used by all users--existing profiles on the
workstation and newly created profiles? It's okay to delete all existing profiles such
that when the user logs on, a new profile is created with the modified template, but
trying to tell them to start Word so it initializes, then quit Word and copy the
normal.dot file, or go to the Word menus to make some changes...wouldn't work out too
well.

Well, given these parameters, I'd say:
- Set up a shared folder on the network (or a folder on the machine, if it's just this
machine)
- Set it as the "Workgroup templates" folder for all profiles (you should be able to
use a policy for this?)
- Put the template(s) all the users should share in this folder. They should appear
together with the user-specific templates under File/New

If the idea is also that they shouldn't even have to go through File/New, I'd set up an
additional template as an Addin and have it copied to the users StartUp folder(s). (If
this is all on the same machine, this can be the same folder). Place a toolbar in it with
a button that creates a new document from this shared template. You can even have an
AutoExec in it that creates a new document from the template as Word is started up.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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Thanks for the pointer. I will try it out.

Keith

"Cindy M -WordMVP-" wrote:

Hi =?Utf-8?B?S2VpdGg=?=,

So how do you create a template that is used by all users--existing profiles on the
workstation and newly created profiles? It's okay to delete all existing profiles such
that when the user logs on, a new profile is created with the modified template, but
trying to tell them to start Word so it initializes, then quit Word and copy the
normal.dot file, or go to the Word menus to make some changes...wouldn't work out too
well.

Well, given these parameters, I'd say:
- Set up a shared folder on the network (or a folder on the machine, if it's just this
machine)
- Set it as the "Workgroup templates" folder for all profiles (you should be able to
use a policy for this?)
- Put the template(s) all the users should share in this folder. They should appear
together with the user-specific templates under File/New

If the idea is also that they shouldn't even have to go through File/New, I'd set up an
additional template as an Addin and have it copied to the users StartUp folder(s). (If
this is all on the same machine, this can be the same folder). Place a toolbar in it with
a button that creates a new document from this shared template. You can even have an
AutoExec in it that creates a new document from the template as Word is started up.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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