Mac Forum / Applications / MS Office / May 2008

That's a new feature.  If you get things the way you like them, then
right-click the shape, you can choose "Set autoshape defaults".

Your new settings will them become the defaults IN THAT DOCUMENT ONLY.

This is a change from the expected behaviour, where the defaults were stored
for all future documents.

You can, of course, store a set of shapes as AutoTexts.  These are saved in
the Normal.dotm template, and will have the settings you make in any new
document.

You can then use Tools>Customise to drag the AutoTexts you have created to a
toolbar of your own manufacture, so you can have them one click away.

This is what the Document Elements bar was supposed to bring us, but they
didn't get it finished.  If you have a copy of Word 2007, you can add
document elements, but unless you add them in the existing categories, Word
2008 can't display them.

Hope this helps

On 29/04/08 12:48 AM, in article ee99cb9.-1@webcrossing.caR9absDaxw,

Hi Gleng,

Like John mentioned in a previous response you can set the properties you'd
like all new shapes to have and then CTRL-Click it and choose "Set AutoShape
defaults". Like he mentioned, this will only apply to your current document.

To have it apply to all new documents, simply open the template you start
your documents from (usually Normal.dotx) and repeat the operation there and
save. Don't forget to delete the shape or all your new docs will have a
shape in them by default :P

Let us know if this doesn't work.

Matt
MacOffice Testing
Microsoft

Date: 4/28/08 7:48 AM / From: "gleng1@officeformac.com"
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