Re: No Word Settings in 2004?

Beth,

In essence, the originals are moved to the Microsoft User Data folder and
aliases are put in their place. So Word sees what it expects. The notes in
"Bend Word to Your Will" are very explicit on this, so there's not much room
for confusion.

I've never had to re-install Word, albeit I'm a very intensive user of it,
but if/when I install the next version I will first temporarily remove the
aliases and move the settings files back into their original place. But
even if that were not done, I am fairly confident that Word would simply
replace the present aliases with new "originals", and would therefore not
look further. I'd then follow my notes again.

My notes were the result of a lot of discussion with, IIRC, John McGimpsey
and Paul Berkowitz. Maybe they will comment too.

Cheers,

Clive
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On 4/11/05 4:38 AM, in article BF8F8B02.223BE%bethrosengard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"Beth Rosengard" <bethrosengard@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Clive & René,
>
> I would not recommend moving settings or prefs files to the MUD! If you
> ever have to uninstall/reinstall Office, the prefs won't get uninstalled,
> which means you won't get a clean reinstall (and that's the whole point).
> And you'd have to leave aliases of the prefs files in the original location
> or they'd be recreated anyway. Too confusing.
>
> Also, if you later install a new version of Office, you'll probably confuse
> the installer and end up with a munged installation. Not a good idea.
>
> Do you do it that way, Clive?


.

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