forcing fonts in office apps

[McBunny]

we want to force the use of arial 11 in word and arial 10 in email


whats the best way to do this people ? versions of office in use are 2000, xp, 2003 and 2007

 

[Magic Johnson]

Bloody hell that's strict! No idea how you'd implement that, especially over different versions.

 

[McBunny]

thats my problem i can set it in normal.dot when i install office but then people can change it
i can copy down normal.dot in the login script at every boot up but then the users loose all their customizing for other things

 

[Magic Johnson]

I've no idea how you'd do it mate, still keep us updated because it may come in handy one day, especially the e-mail fonts.

 

[C.J]

I've not looked or tried this, but, would deleting all other fonts from the folder work?

You could try by temp moving them into another folder?

 

[Andy.]

You would then end up with a problem when documents came in with another font though wouldn't you?

 

[Magic Johnson]

Exactly. Just display loads of those rectangle boxes. There could be a 3rd party program that allows you to lock down certain options in any Office app via a SG, in fact, there must be.

 

[McBunny]

there bust be something but its finding the correct search term

seems enough people on the net want to do it though

 

[cava83]

I tried doing this, but not very successfully, will try and find the notes.

Let's talk about word for instance.

Every word application, has a default template, which is stored locally on each PC. What some people do, is create a default template, store it on a server, then modify all those clients to reference to that template on the server.

Needs to be an easier way though.

 

[Bux]

Does this help?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291291