Setting the default to your liking

re: Setting the default to your liking

wrdblog — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 23:48:31 GMT

Hey Francis - Thanks for your feedback on frames & textboxes. I've passed this feedback along to the necessary PM. -Jonathan

re: Setting the default to your liking

Stefan KZVB — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:40:09 GMT

Thank you for your help! I tried out the alternative way, and it helped to succeed. But after programmatically opening the normal.dotm and applying the quickstyleset, I got very often an error that the normal.dotm is write-protected when trying to save it. So I looked for a workaround where you don't need to programmatically open normal.dotm: Dim doc As Word.Document Set doc = Documents.Add With doc .ApplyQuickStyleSet "CompanyQuickstyles" .ApplyDocumentTheme "H:\VORLAGEN\Document Themes\CompanyTheme.thmx" Application.CommandBars.ExecuteMso "QuickStylesSetAsDefault" .Close SaveChanges:=False NormalTemplate.Save End With This seems to work! But the write-protected normal.dotm looks like the same kind of issue as manually trying to save changes to a .dotm-template that is in Word's autostart folder: I *always* have to save that template with a different name, close Word and then rename the template back to its original name. So I would be happy about any hint here. I'm using Word 2007 RTM German.

re: Setting the default to your liking

wrdblog — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 03:13:06 GMT

Hey Venkat – I’m looking into the best way for you to provide your file, but will be out of office on holiday starting this Thursday, so please forgive me if I am not able to get back to you immediately. -Jonathan

re: Setting the default to your liking

Francis — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 17:09:54 GMT

P.S. A slight correction--even pixel values change when they are set relative to margin, column, or paragraph. It appears that all positioning is rewritten in terms of pixels relative to the page when the anchor is moved.

re: Setting the default to your liking

Francis — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 17:04:01 GMT

I am not sure whether this is a bug or the result of how frames are implemented, but-- Moving a frame's anchor causes its horizontal and vertical position to change from text values (left, right, top, bottom, center, inside, or outside) to pixel values. This breaks layout when the user then changes paper size, orientation, or margins. Frames end up in the wrong place--in the middle of a paragraph, on top of each other, or in the non-printable area. The only solution is to go through and manually set each affected frame back to non-pixel positions (very tedious!) Note that text boxes do not have this problem (but I can't use them because I need field codes.) Also, when frames are already set to pixel positions, they retain their positions correctly (however, for many layouts, such as aligning to the right or bottom margin, text values are necessary.) Thanks for the blog and reading our comments!

re: Setting the default to your liking

wrdblog — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:42:15 GMT

as to both migrating AutoText entries and setting defaults in the new Normal.dotm, one approach is to deplay a Normal.dotm with the properties that you want it to have (including the default style set) and then programatically move the autotext entries. Normal.dot is kept intact and still available after the install. Alternatively you could force the migration of Normal.dot to Normal.dotm and then programatically open that file and set the theme via activedocument.ApplyQuickFormatSet(" "). note that many autotext behaviors have changed so you may wish to reimplement your solutions using the newer UI and methods.

re: Setting the default to your liking

wrdblog — Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:26:52 GMT

You would need to open the Normal.dotm file and set the background there. The background is not saved as part of the theme in Word 2007. You could also set your system window colors to be white on blue, which would then apply to the default Word document (which uses the standard Windows window colors for text and background).

re: Setting the default to your liking

Mike — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 10:40:38 GMT

I'm one of those blue background fanatics and I've tried getting the blue background as default. I've made a custom template that gives me a blue background and white text, and tried saving this as my default "Style" but every time I open a new file I still have to choose my background color. It is only one button click, but it is frustrating that I can't get the program to open up with the background I want. Is there a way to do this?

re: Setting the default to your liking

Stefan KZVB — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 12:29:10 GMT

Hmmm...that's really interesting as I'm evaluating Office 2007 for our company! Is there also a way to set a default style during an unattended deployment? To figure this out I tried to record a macro when setting the default but nothing was recorded. Also I cannot just distribute a customized normal.dotm since autotext entries must be migrated from the Word 2000 installations to the new normal.dotm. Is there a way to migrate the old normal.dots while automatically setting a default style?

re: Setting the default to your liking

wrdblog — Fri, 15 Dec 2006 00:35:34 GMT

Hi Harry - Jennifer Michelstein is the program manager that worked on equations and is currently taking some much deserved time off. I’ve passed along your question for Jen to field when she gets back. Sorry for the delay - Jonathan