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Bill - 24 Jul 2003 16:36 GMT

I want to customize the normal.dot and push it out to
other users with preselected options. When I push it
during testing the not all settings are held. Any
suggestions?

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Graham Mayor - 24 Jul 2003 16:47 GMT

It is neither necessary nor desirable to mess with users' normal.dot files.
If you wish to impose standards do so with document templates. If you wish
to add functions, use global templates.

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> I want to customize the normal.dot and push it out to
> other users with preselected options. When I push it
> during testing the not all settings are held. Any
> suggestions?

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Samantha - 29 Jul 2003 21:48 GMT

I use global templates as well. Currently we push these down to the
user's systems by having them run a .bat file. The partners at the
firm do not wish to incorporate the .bat file into a login script.
However, we are finding that we cant' rely on users to remember to run
the .bat file. Any suggestions on how to push these down in a more
automatic fashion?

> It is neither necessary nor desirable to mess with users' normal.dot files.
> If you wish to impose standards do so with document templates. If you wish
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> > during testing the not all settings are held. Any
> > suggestions?

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Graham Mayor - 30 Jul 2003 08:05 GMT

Set the users machines to point to the same Word startup folder on the
network (and the same Workgroup folder for document templates). They then
don't have to remember to do anything.

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> I use global templates as well. Currently we push these down to the
> user's systems by having them run a .bat file. The partners at the
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>>> during testing the not all settings are held. Any
>>> suggestions?

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Samantha - 30 Jul 2003 13:57 GMT

Performance is too slow this way....any other ideas?

> Set the users machines to point to the same Word startup folder on the
> network (and the same Workgroup folder for document templates). They then
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> >>> during testing the not all settings are held. Any
> >>> suggestions?

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