Saving my options and customization of Word to a file

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JB - 30 May 2005 19:35 GMT

Does word have a special file like WP does, where all the menu customization
and options choices are saved? In the even of a hard drive crash it would be
nice to have a copy of such saved to my data drive. That would save going
through all the setup processes to get menus back to the way I like them. I
Thank you in advance for any help here.

Jerry

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Paul Ballou - 30 May 2005 19:40 GMT

Search for Normal.dot and save a copy of this file to disk

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> Does word have a special file like WP does, where all the menu
> customization
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> Jerry

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Suzanne S. Barnhill - 30 May 2005 20:40 GMT

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/FilesToBackup.htm

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> Does word have a special file like WP does, where all the menu customization
> and options choices are saved? In the even of a hard drive crash it would be
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> Jerry

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