Re: Settings on Thumb Drive?

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This is the sort of situation that Microsoft tried to address, I think, with
"roaming profiles," but I suspect that that works only when they are set up
in advance, not in an ad hoc situation.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Jay Freedman" <jay.freedman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 18:46:39 -0700, "<*(((><{" <Fishy@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> >I'd like to save my Word settings -- toolbar, display, editing
> >preferences, autotext, etc. etc. -- onto a thumb drive, and load them
> >up when I use the computers in the lab, or a friend's computer.
> >
> >Is that possible?
> >
> ><*((((><{
> >Fishy@xxxxxxxxx
>
> See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/FilesToBackup.htm.
> Transferring settings to another computer is the same as backing them
> up on your computer and restoring them on the other computer. However,
> there's no way to use your settings only for the short time you're at
> the other computer and then instantly revert to the other user's
> settings -- you would have to similarly back up all their stuff, so it
> could be restored when you've finished.
>
> You could get part way there by duplicating your User Templates folder
> onto the thumb drive, and temporarily modifying the other computer's
> User Templates setting to point to the thumb drive. The toolbar, base
> styles, AutoText, the formatted AutoCorrect entries (but not the
> unformatted ones), and macros would all come from your Normal.dot
> instead of the one on the other computer. Most of the editing
> preferences and display settings are stored in the registry, so they
> wouldn't come along automatically. You could use a macro as described
> in
>
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/DataKeySettingsContent.htm#PreserveSettimgs
> but you'd also need to record a similar macro to save and restore the
> settings that belong on the machine.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Jay Freedman
> Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

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