Change other default settings in the Normal template. You can customize the Normal template and change default settings for many aspects of a document, such as text formatting, paragraph formatting, document formatting, styles, text, pictures, AutoText entries, and keyboard shortcuts. If the behavior occurs in multiple documents, we recommend that you try to reset Microsoft Word to the program's default settings. How to reset user options and registry settings in Word To have us reset user options and registry settings in Microsoft Word for you, go to the 'Here's an easy fix' section. Image: iStock/AntonioGuillem Out of the box, does a reasonable job of anticipating how most of us work. However, you'll still find a few things you change almost every time you start a new document, and doing so quickly becomes annoying. Why not change these options permanently? That way, every new document opens ready to go, so you can be a bit more productive. Of course, 'permanently' simply means the behavior persists until you change it again; you can revert to the out-of-the box setting or to another setting anytime you want. But with the right tweaks, your custom settings can save you a lot of time. In this article, I'll show you 10 defaults you can reset; these are the features readers contact me about the most. More about Office • • • • Many of these changes are to application-level settings, but a few customize the Normal template. As a rule, I recommend that you not modify Normal or that you make few customizations. It's not bad—you're not going to blow up Word—but users often forget about the customizations and are later confused when the template isn't working as expected. There are a few important things to remember when you customize the Normal template: • If Word encounters a corrupt Normal file, it will generate a new one, which won't include your customizations. • If the Normal template is deleted (it shouldn't happen, but it could), Word will generate a new version, which won't include your customizations. • If you upgrade, Word might generate a new Normal template file, which won't include your customizations. • If you share files with others, your customizations might conflict with theirs. Specifically, your Word files might not look the same on someone else's system. I'm using Word 2016 (desktop) on a Windows 10 64-bit system, but most of these defaults apply to earlier versions. There's no demonstration file to download. Note: You can't reset defaults using the browser version. ![]() Note: This article is also available in the free PDF. 1: Line spacing Once Microsoft started pushing Office documents toward the web, it changed the default line spacing to 1.15. It provides a looser informal look. It looks good if you're generating web content. If you're not—and most of us aren't—change that default setting to 1 as follows: • Right-click Normal in the Styles Quick gallery, choose Modify, and then choose Paragraph from the Format list. You can also right-click a document's background or inside a paragraph and choose Paragraph. • In the Spacing section, change the At setting from 1.15 to 1, as shown in Figure A. Or change Multiple to Single. ![]() • If enabled, click Set As Default and click OK. If Set As Default isn't enabled, click OK and then click the New Documents Based On This Document option at the bottom. Click OK and click Yes if prompted to make the change to the default template. C more streaming. Figure A Adjust the line spacing for all documents. You might be wondering about the Multiple setting. A Multiple setting of 1 is similar to Single, but they're not the same.
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