Word templates, autotext and customisation

If you have saved autotext, customised your toolbar or created your own templates within Word or Excel they will not transfer to your new machine.

Before the move

• Right click on the start button and choose explore
• Locate and expand the documents and settings folder on the C: drive
• Locate and expand the folder with your userid (this should be the username you log into the machine with)
• Expand the application data folder
• Expand the Microsoft folder
• Click on the templates folder
• Copy the file called normal on to your F: drive folder
• Copy any other templates that you have created on to the F: drive also

After the move

• Right click on the start button and choose explore
• Locate the normal file on your F: drive
• Copy this file.
• Locate and expand the documents and settings folder on the C: drive
• Locate and expand the folder with your userid
• Expand the application data folder
• Expand the Microsoft folder
• Click on the templates folder
• Rename the normal file to fnormal within this folder
• Paste the saved version in to this folder. This should be called normal (you will have your original normal from your old machine, and the renamed file called fnormal)
• Copy and paste back any other templates that you saved from your F: drive to the C: drive of the new machine.