Have you ever looked at the different settings you can configure in the Options dialog box? There are well over a hundred different settings. If you count the secondary dialog boxes accessible from the Options dialog box, there are many, many more settings. This, of course, doesn't count the settings you may make on other dialog boxes in Word.
Suffice it to say that there are many, many different settings you can modify in order to configure the way that Word does its work. With so many settings, you might start to wonder where they are all stored.
There are three general places that Word stores most settings: documents, templates, and the Registry. Settings related to formatting, menus, and toolbars are stored in either documents or templates—most often in the Normal.dot template. The majority of settings that you make in the Options dialog box are stored in the Registry. The exact locations in the registry are too numerous to mention here, but there is a very helpful Knowledge Base article that lays out all the various locations:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/212242
It is important to remember that Word utilizes many tools that are not unique to Word, but are applicable to other programs in the Office suite. Tools such as AutoCorrect, the spell checker, and others have their own settings, and their own files and Registry keys where the settings are stored.
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2018-08-08 11:33:16
Charles Kenyon
See also:
http://www.msofficeforums.com/word/13675-word-2007-later-key-data-file-locations.html
2013-10-19 10:50:22
toni
Somewhere along the way I have changed the default settings for Word documents. How do I get them back? Margin and heading space are all wrong. Sometimes I have a page break and I don't want it. Just give me the old template I used to have.
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