moving Word.X to another system ?

[Ronald Florence]

I'm in the process of moving my primary machine. I copied
~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/ to the new machine and installed
Office on the new machine, but when Word starts on the new machine, it
does not start with my carefully crafted menubars. How do I move this
configuration data to the new machine? Thanks,

 

[Elliott Roper]

I'm in the process of moving my primary machine. I copied
~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/ to the new machine and installed
Office on the new machine, but when Word starts on the new machine, it
does not start with my carefully crafted menubars. How do I move this
configuration data to the new machine? Thanks,

/Applications/Microsoft\ Office\ X/Templates/Normal
and
~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Word\ Settings\ \(10\)
might get you started
nb the "\ " construction is terminal's way of escaping spaces

 

[Ronald Florence]

/Applications/Microsoft\ Office\ X/Templates/Normal
and
~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Word\ Settings\ \(10\)
might get you started

Thanks. But even after freshly ftp'ing those over to the new machine,
it still starts up with no toolbars instead of my custom crafted
toolbar. Any other ideas?

My templates show up, just the toolbar is missing.

 

[Elliott Roper]

Thanks. But even after freshly ftp'ing those over to the new machine,
it still starts up with no toolbars instead of my custom crafted
toolbar. Any other ideas?

My templates show up, just the toolbar is missing.

Sorry it was no help. I *hate* toolbars. I run most of the time with
none showing at all. Someone who knows what they are talking about will
be along in a minute.

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Sorry it was no help. I *hate* toolbars. I run most of the time with
none showing at all. Someone who knows what they are talking about will
be along in a minute.

Toolbars should be in the Normal template, unless you saved them in a global
template, which would be in your Startup Folder. But see here for much
detail on this project:

http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/BackUpPrefs.htm

You don't need to read the whole thing--going from one version to the same
version on a different computer is pretty much the same as a Remove and
Reinstall, in terms of what you can/should move around. Focus on the table
for Office X, which tells you what files are important and where to put
them.

If all you lost is your toolbar, and/or the above does not help, you can
copy that around individually--this link explains the general process but
you would probably create a temporary template, transfer the toolbar into it
on the old computer, move template to new computer, repeat transfer to
Normal on new computer.

http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/RestoreCustomization.htm

Dayo

 

[Ronald Florence]

Toolbars should be in the Normal template, unless you saved them in a global
template, which would be in your Startup Folder. But see here for much
detail on this project:

http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/BackUpPrefs.htm
[...]
http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/RestoreCustomization.htm

Thanks. Neither of these worked so I finally just used rsync to make
"/Applications/Microsoft Office X/" and "~/Microsoft User Data/"
identical on the two machines, which predictably fixed everything.

 

[Dayo Mitchell]

Toolbars should be in the Normal template, unless you saved them in a global
template, which would be in your Startup Folder. But see here for much
detail on this project:

http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/BackUpPrefs.htm
[...]
http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/RestoreCustomization.htm

Thanks. Neither of these worked so I finally just used rsync to make
"/Applications/Microsoft Office X/" and "~/Microsoft User Data/"
identical on the two machines, which predictably fixed everything.

Thanks for reporting back, and for sharing yet another option.

Dayo