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[Marilyn48]

Hi all and Happy Australia Day.
Now can someone please help me before I become demented. How can I set the default text size in Word 2007?I have tried everything (including borrowing Office 2007 for Dummies from the library, which just confuses me more).When I open Word and start typing the text size is so miniscule that I can't read it to see if I am making any mistakes 
There must be a way I can set it to stay at  a "seeable" size....
Thanks all.

[neonwizard]

This is a pretty easy way to do it:

   1. Choose the Run option from the Start menu. This displays the Run dialog box.
   2. In the Open box enter the name regedit
   3. Click on OK. This starts the Regedit program.
   4. If you are using Word 2007, select the HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Office/12.0/Word key
   5. Press the Delete key. You are asked if you want to really delete they key.
   6. Click on Yes. The selected key is deleted.
   7. Close the Registry Editor.
   8. Restart Word. Word has been reset to default settings.

[Marilyn48]

oh that all sounds very painful - thought it would be a case of just click on this, click on that....cannot remember Word 2000 being so difficult to manouvre. Thanks neonwizard I will give it a go when I'm feeling a bit braver

[neonwizard]

I could do it for you remotely if you install Teamviewer or you can do a search for the Normal.dotm and rename it but I'm not sure that resets everything including the fonts.

[Dayko]

Try via the styles menu

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[Marilyn48]

Thanks Dayko, will it stay like that or will I have to set it each time I want to write a letter? At the moment I am typing letters in my email program, sending them to myself and printing them off(and cutting off the details section at the top).Not happy!!

[Tassie]

This link should help you..

http://office.microsoft.com/en-au/word/HP100144081033.aspx

[Jimbob]

Good one Tassie .... did the trick for me too ..... 

[Jutta]

Might come in handy too for Word 2007 Users!

Changing the Word2007 Normal Template

Many people have wanted to change the default line spacing that is used by Word2007. It defaults to adding a 10 pt. space after each line.

To change this, you simply need to edit the default template used by word

Start Word
Open
In the dialog box in the lower right side, select All Word Templates
Browse to the location where they are stored
For example, with Vista, they are in the C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates directory
Open the Normal.dotm file
Select Paragraph
Change the spacing after from 10 to 0
You can also change things like the default font and size
Save the file and close Word
Restart Word and your new template should be in place