Hilarity N. Suze
09-24-2005, 04:59 PM
I am getting a new computer at work, which is a good thing as my current one is "old" (about four years old--yes, an antique). Obviously this is in response to some computer problems I've been having and the IT department has apparently deemed it more cost-effective to load a new computer with the appropriate software and send it out, rather than flying a tech out to deal with the problems. (One of the bad things about being in a remote office.
However, the IT people brushed off my concerns about saving all my settings--shortcut keys and the like. But, having recently upgraded my home computer, I know there are many, many things that I have changed about the programs I use at home (Word Perfect and MS Word, for instance) that I have had to try and redo and, in some cases, have not been able to redo or it took a long time. I'm thinking for instance of certain custom macros that I have dragged to my taskbar, default codes that make my life easier, etc.
It occurs to me that all the changes I've made must be logged somewhere, maybe sitting around in a file with an odd name, and if so they could be copied onto a disk and recopied onto my new setup.
Am I wrong about this? Would it take just as long to accomplish this as it would to redo all this stuff? Anybody know how it could be done?
For instance I have quite a few macros in Word that do various helpful things like put footnotes into the best format for transferred them into graphics programs that don't do footnotes, but I don't actually know where Word stores these macros.
However, the IT people brushed off my concerns about saving all my settings--shortcut keys and the like. But, having recently upgraded my home computer, I know there are many, many things that I have changed about the programs I use at home (Word Perfect and MS Word, for instance) that I have had to try and redo and, in some cases, have not been able to redo or it took a long time. I'm thinking for instance of certain custom macros that I have dragged to my taskbar, default codes that make my life easier, etc.
It occurs to me that all the changes I've made must be logged somewhere, maybe sitting around in a file with an odd name, and if so they could be copied onto a disk and recopied onto my new setup.
Am I wrong about this? Would it take just as long to accomplish this as it would to redo all this stuff? Anybody know how it could be done?
For instance I have quite a few macros in Word that do various helpful things like put footnotes into the best format for transferred them into graphics programs that don't do footnotes, but I don't actually know where Word stores these macros.