How can I change the default Style in Word 2007?

[Michael B.]

How can I change the default STYLE to "No Spacing" as deafult for BOTH Word
2007 and Outlook 2007?

I have tried opening a Word 2007, then clicking on option #2 under Style (No
Spacing), then clicking on Change Styles and then selecting Set as Default.
Then I exit Word 2007 and then restart it, and guess what? It again shows
me option #1 under Style (Normal).

Why won't it save this to the template?

I guess this is happening in Outlook 2007 because it's not "fixed" in Word
2007.

 

[Michael B.]

I have found PART of the solution!

http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=278029

So one needs to Edit normal.dotm, located in %APPDATA%\Microsoft\Templates
Once you open it, you change the style (no space) and save this file.
After I exited and restarted Word 2007, it defaulted to exactly how I wanted
for the new, blank document.

HOWEVER, this did not fix the issue for Outllok 2007. It still deafults to
"Normal Style". is there an Outlook 2007 "equivalent" of normal.dotm file
where I can implement that change also? Otherwise, I need to click to click
Format Text and Manually select it everytime that I open a new email to
write.

Any further help is much appreciated.