Now when you open word it will default to the settings you have created. Then make sure all instances of word are closed, and delete the old normal.dot (Or rename it if you want to back it up), and rename the new one (Normal2.dot) to Normal.dot. Change the font, add a header, a footer, or anything…and save it as Normal2.dot in that same folder. In the left pane you can see different categories, select the Display options and the right pane expands the options available. In order to set these options click on the ‘Office button’ and then select the Word Options. It can be found here:Ĭ:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Microsoft\Templatesīack to where we were at…open it with word:Īnd it looks like a blank document. Display options determine how document content is displayed, on the screen and when printed. It is located in the users current profile. The default settings for a documents font, and many other settings are pulled from a file called normal.dot I started searching through the registry to see if there was a location that Microsoft stored this…and actually it is not stored in the registry at all. This can cause issues when a document is saved from 2007 in 2003 format and then shared with someone who does not have the office 2007 compatibility pack installed and thus does not have the calibri font. Do you have any suggestions for changing the default font that is used? The calibri font is the default in 2007, and it does not come with 2003. Steve – found your blog and tool for ms word 2007 compatibility. It shows a small preview screen so you get a general idea of how it will look.Recently I received an email from a reader asking: If you select Line Spacing Options you can tweak it even more. Again with Live Preview you’ll be able to hover over the different spacing options and see how it will look. Then on the Ribbon in the Paragraph group click on the Line and Paragraph Spacing button. If you only want to change the line spacing in select parts of a document, highlight the text to change. Here we set it to Word 2003 and anytime we start a new document, it will default to this Style Set with Spacing set to 1.0.Ĭhange Line Spacing in Selected Portions of Documents To set it as default go to Change Styles then Set as Default. You might want to the Style Set to default to the one you choose every time you start a new document.
Once you find one you like just click on it. Hover over any of the Sets in the list and the entire document will change.
And here is an example of the Manuscript Style Set.
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