Change Default Settings How to change the default settings for new Word documents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Whenever you start Word with a new blank document or create a new document by selecting from the offerings at File| New or Office Button| New, that document is based on a template, a special kind of file that contains instructions for formatting a document, including specifications for the page size and margins, the font style and size, paragraph formatting, etc. When that document is the “Blank document” that Word starts with, or that you can choose from the New dialog or New tab of the Backstage (or create with Ctrl+N), the template is the built-in default template called Normal. The Normal template serves as more than a document template; it is also a “global” template, which means that it, including macros, AutoText entries, and (in earlier versions) toolbar and menu customizations. These customizations are available in every document you create, not just those based on the Normal template (that’s why Normal is called “global”). Although all templates, including Normal, contain many styles, the basic style in every template is called Normal. That is the style applied to the default empty paragraph in any new document, and most of the rest of the styles in the document are based on it, so making changes in the Normal style has a. If you look at the formatting of the default Normal style in early versions of Word, you can deduce that Word’s designers assumed that Word would mostly be used to create business letters and reports. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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