Office 2001 settings migration

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Lucas

Good morning
Is there a way to migrate the settings from Office 2001, to Office 2004?

One our faculty is adamant that recreating the Office settings in 2004 will
take an exorbitant amount of time, and it would be much easier to migrate the
settings.

I have searched for a migrations method, or settings location on the Net and
have not been able to locate anything to help.

thanks much

take care



Lucas Friedrichsen, ITC
OSU Computer Helpdesk
Oregon State University

(e-mail address removed)
541-737-3474
http://tss.oregonstate.edu/

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Daiya Mitchell

There's no migration tool but most everything can be shifted over
manually. What settings do you want?

If the professor is talking about something like an extensive
AutoCorrect list, then migration will handle it. If he/she means the
checkboxes in the Preferences dialogs--sorry, those will need to be redone.

There's lots of information for Word here (jump to the bottom first,
Installing a New Version):
http://word.mvps.org/mac/BackUpPrefs.html

And the Word 2001 equivalent locations are noted here:
http://word.mvps.org/Mac/TroubleshootWord2001.html
 
L

Lucas

Daiya

Thanks for the information. I have forwarded it to our professor, it sounds
like it will work for him!

thanks again

take care

Lucas
 
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John McGhie

Hi Lucas:

If you are familiar with the product, it takes a little over 60 seconds to
re-create the settings most users have. A new user may take up to five
minutes: although most of the settings are in exactly the same places as
they were in Office 2001.

As a network administrator, you can build an installed image of the software
and move that out to the users, with many of the settings pre-configured (as
described in the Office 2004 Resource Kit on the Microsoft website).

I suspect your faculty has a severe case of "Fear of Change". It wouldn't
be the first company I have met in that condition :)

Cheers

On 1/11/07 3:38 AM, in article
(e-mail address removed), "Lucas"

Good morning
Is there a way to migrate the settings from Office 2001, to Office 2004?

One our faculty is adamant that recreating the Office settings in 2004 will
take an exorbitant amount of time, and it would be much easier to migrate
the
settings.

I have searched for a migrations method, or settings location on the Net and
have not been able to locate anything to help.

thanks much

take care



Lucas Friedrichsen, ITC
OSU Computer Helpdesk
Oregon State University

(e-mail address removed)
541-737-3474
http://tss.oregonstate.edu/

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