Change Settings for All New Word Documents in Office 2008

When creating a new Word document, Word 2008 creates the new document based on the normal template. If say you didn't like something in this template, you can modify the template so that this change is reflected in all new Word documents. The process is very simple.

1. Click on File, then Open the following document.
   Macintosh HD/Users/[username]/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/User Templates/Normal.dotm
2. Make any changes to this document that you'd like and then Save.

That's it. When you create a new document from now on, your new Normal.dotm template will be used.

If you want to revert to the original Normal.dotm file, you can simply rename the Normal.dotm file. Word will then create the default Normal.dotm file and restore the default settings.