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Customizing Word

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CHAPTER ELEVEN
Setting Defaults and Customizing Word
Microsoft Word provides unprecedented 
capabilities for customizing the program 
to suit your needs and tastes. For example, 
you can customize Word in the following 
ways: 
•Set defaults (predefined settings 
present when the program starts up) for 
basic document and section specifications 
such as margins.
•Save multiple configurations for 
different applications or users.
•Control “environmental” display 
and operation defaults. 
•Add and remove menu commands.
•Add and remove command key 
assignments.
•Set default styles.

Configuration Files



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..........................By Stephen Kahn

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Word saves defaults and customized settings in a configuration file. The first 
time you use the program, Word creates a 
default configuration file in your 
computer’s System Folder called “Word 
Settings (4).” (The “4” distinguishes it 
from the Word 3.0 configuration file called 
simply “Word Settings.”)  When you quit from Microsoft Word, the  program updates the configuration file with any changes you made during the working session. If you suffer a Macintosh “bomb” during your work session and have to restart the computer, you lose any configuration changes you made during that work session. You can create multiple configuration files, give them arbitrary names, and save 
them in any 
folder or disk of 
your choice.