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Re: Tools: Migrating preferences to a new computer?
Subject:Re: Tools: Migrating preferences to a new computer? From:Jo Francis Byrd <jbyrd -at- byrdwrites -dot- com> To:"Hart, Geoff" <Geoff-H -at- MTL -dot- FERIC -dot- CA> Date:Mon, 28 Feb 2000 08:36:59 -0600
Don't know about Outlook, Geoff (I use Netscape), but with Word your preferences
are stored in your normal template. If you're using the same version of Word on the
new machine, just copy over the normal template from the old to the new machine.
All your preferences should be there, ready for use.
HTH
Jo Byrd
"Hart, Geoff" wrote:
> The good news: I'll be getting a new computer (Windows 95 or 98) about twice as
> fast as the current one in a few days. The bad news: I've spent a long time
> tweaking the preferences of Word, Outlook, etc. to suit the way that I work. Is
> there any easy way to migrate those preferences to my new computer, short of
> printing out a bunch of screenshots and laboriously re-establishing the
> preferences one by one?
>
> --Geoff Hart, Pointe-Claire, Quebec
> geoff-h -at- mtl -dot- feric -dot- ca
