[dcasper70]

When you create a new .doc file it is based off a template file (.dot).
The template file for a general blank document is 'Normal.dot'. If you alter this file in the manner Shajen suggests, then all future new files you create will have those settings.

Here's what I did to accomplish this.
Locate 'Normal.dot', for me it was here:
C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates

Open a blank document
Make Shajen's changes
Select 'File->Save As'
Change the type to 'Document Template'
Call it 'Normal2.dot'
Save it in the same directory as the original one.
Close Word
Change the name of the original to 'Normal2.dot.old'
Rename 'Normal2.dot' to 'Normal.dot'
Open Word
Create a new document & it will use your new template.


FYI, you can do this to any of the canned templates if you want them to be specialized in any way. I changed my 'Contemporary Fax.dot' so I don't have to constantly type my info in every time.

Hope that helps.


I don't know about the printing part...easily testable though