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Changing Settings for All Documents

You can change several Word settings to make it faster or easier to do your job. A couple of these settings are relatively easy to change and can save you several keystrokes each time you create a new file.

An organization might want to have one location where all its business templates are stored to make it easy to quickly locate them. You can change the default locations where Word looks for templates so that you don’t have to go searching every time you want to use one as the basis for a new document. You can also change the default locations of other types of files.

If you open a new blank document without basing ...