Restoring Word98 customizations from backup of HD?

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Hylton Boothroyd

I am trying to restore my modest customizations in Word98 in OS9.2. They
appear to have been replaced/disconnected about two weeks ago, about 30
minutes after a back-up of my start-up partition to a portable HD.

In particular my 40K file
System Folder:preferences:Word Settings (8)
which has the titles, but not the definitions, of several customised
address label layouts, was replaced by a new 4K or 8K default one.

I haven't as yet located where the actual definitions are.

Dropping my old Word Settings (8) file into Preferences doesn't get me
anywhere. It doesn't seem to reconnect with the layout definitions. And
within a few moves Word overwrites it with a new default. And the first
re-launch is declared to be the first launch of an installation or
upgrade.

I think I will probably have to start over. But having backed-up the
start-up (application) disk every few weeks, I feel ought to be able to
piece these bits back together. So I'm posting this in the hope that
someone may remember/know enough about Word98 to enable me to rescue
something.
 

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