Word default paper size- networked user accounts

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Jeremy Bloomfield

Word 2004- processors various, OS 10.5

How do I get Word to default to A4 (instead of US letter) for networked
accounts?
 
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John McGhie

Hi Jeremy:

The succinct answer to this is "By ensuring that your operating system
locality preferences are set correctly before you install."

Microsoft Office picks up all its global settings from the "Language and
Text" system preferences in OS 10.6 (I think they were called something else
in 10.5).

If this has been done wrongly at installation, you need to set the System
Preferences correctly and then delete the individual user's preference files
and Normal template so they can be re-created with the correct settings.

Do not attempt to share either preferences or the Normal template: the user
will live in crash city.

Users can place the Normal Template anywhere they like, but unless they have
moved it, it's usually in the User's Home Drive Documents folder, in the
Microsoft User Data folder. The file is simply called "Normal" and must not
have any extension or Word 2004 won't recognise it.

The Preferences are in:

~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/

And

~/Library/Preferences/com.Microsoft.Word.plist

All Microsoft applications must be quit before deleting the preferences, or
the old ones will be saved back from memory on quit. Don't attempt to
migrate preferences from PPC to Intel machines, or the fleas of a thousand
camels will indeed infest your itchy-bits :)

It can be quicker to fire the "Microsoft Office Remover Tool" (from the
Office CD or in the Office 2004 application folder) then re-install and
re-update.

This answer is very specific to Office 2004: if the version was wrong, post
back and we'll start again :)

Hope this helps

Word 2004- processors various, OS 10.5

How do I get Word to default to A4 (instead of US letter) for networked
accounts?

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