
Microsoft delivers Office 2019 for Mac test build. Get started quickly with new, modern versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and OneNote-combining the familiarity of Office and the unique Mac features you love. Today’s post was written by Kirk Koenigsbauer, corporate vice president for the Office Client Applications and Services team. Then simply click on that in the Dock, to have Word open on that template with the custom settings.

Personally I've not ever had to do this, (open normal.dotm directly), i just make my changes then be sure to press 'Default' button, the file normal.dotm gets updated and saved in the folder mentioned above.Īs a final workaround, create a document with the defaults you want, save it as a TEMPLATE FILE, then drag that template to your Dock to create a shortcut. Thus, when you close the doc, you will be sure to be prompted to save it.Īrticle also says if this file doesn't exist, Word recreates it on startup using built in Defaults., so check if this file is still there after you quit Word. The best way to ensure your changes are saved is to open normal.dotm directly FROM WITHIN WORD, not by double clicking it in Finder.


Users:USERNAME:Library:Group Containers:UBF8T346G9.Office:User Content.localized:Templates.localized:Normal.dotmĬheck to see if this file gets updated after making your changes, it might be a permissions issue. Your modifications, provided you make the changes your Default, should be saved into the file Normal.dotm, located in Leesa, I'm able to modify defaults and have them reload on startup.
