Change margin for all users

[Lasse]

Hi

I need to change the standard margin for all users on our network. They all
have their own normal.dot.
What is the easiest way to do this?

Either make a empty normal.dot with the correct margins or maybe a
add-in(template) with the correct margin?

 

[Graham Mayor]

Neither will work, unless you want to replace the normal.dot files of all
your users, which will make you very unpopular. You cannot share the
Normal.dot file among multiple users in Word
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=811468

For the documents on which these margins are significant, provide *document*
templates, which you can share, and train the users to employ them for the
documents in question.

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[Shauna Kelly]

Hi Lasse

Neither. Overwriting users' existing normal.dot files will get you the fury
of anyone who has had the temerity to save a keyboard shortcut or an
AutoText. These are exactly the people that an organization should
encourage, not punish.

Formatting normal.dot to suit the business's needs is largely futile. Every
user must have read/write access to normal.dot, and therefore the user can
override your margins very easily.

An add-in has no effect on margins. An add-in is for creating tools that
apply to all documents.

The best way to do this is to create a template that has all the required
formatting for your company standards. Make that template available to all
users, and train users to do File > New and select the template. To deploy
the template you can, in order of preference:

1. Deploy through a script at logon time to all users' local machines and
store it in the User Templates folder (the folder at Tools > Options > File
Locations that Word identifies as the User Templates folder).

2. Deploy at logon time to all users' Workgroup Templates folder on the
local machine.

3. Point everyone's Workgroup Templates folder to a folder on a server, put
the template there and mark it read-only. (But this is obviously not a good
solution for people with laptops or when the network goes down.)


Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word