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The Word Options menu allows you to customize Word 2007 according to your preferences. This article explains the available customization options.

In previous versions, this menu was located on the Tools menu (Tools > Preferences). In Word 2007, it is part of the Office menu.

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To change user and software application preferences, follow these general steps:

  1. Click the Office Button (or File in Word 2010 or 2013).
  2. Click Word Options (or Options).
  3. Change settings as desired, then click OK.

The Options menu is quite extensive. It includes more than 100 modifiable options, not including submenus.

You can set preferences for AutoCorrect, printing, saving, custom dictionaries, color schemes, updating fields, and much more. In addition, this menu contains help options, such as repairing Microsoft Office, finding your product serial number, managing installed add-ins, and changing security settings.

If you hate the way Word 2007 does something, browse the Word Options menu to see if you can change it.

In this article, I discuss the tabs located in this menu, but I won’t be able to cover all of the available preferences you can set through this dialog. (If a topic is covered in more detail elsewhere on Word-Tips.com, I included a link.)

Exploring the tabs on the Word Options menu

Let’s briefly explore the nine tabs located on the Word 2007 options menu.

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The first five tabs contain commands for customizing Office and Word 2007:

  • Popular: this is where you find the most popular commands for customizing Word and the Office 2007 ribbon. It is covered in detail in the Customize the Office Ribbon tutorial.
  • Display: the display commands control how Word looks on-screen and when you print documents. For instance, if you create business forms in Word, you can select the option to update your form fields before printing. Other options include always showing certain formatting marks, or whether white space shows between pages on the screen.
  • Proofing: this menu allows you to set options for AutoCorrect, spelling check (in Microsoft Office and Word), grammar check, writing style settings, and adding and editing custom dictionaries.
  • Save: if you want to change the default file extension for saving Word documents, use this menu. You can also change how often your document is saved and the location for the AutoRecovery tool. Other preferences you can customize in this menu include file sharing options (for instance if you use SharePoint), and how Word handles embedding fonts in your saved files.
  • Advanced: this tab contains all other customization options. Each category contains many preference options…I recommend that you open this tab and look around so you can see the many ways you can customize Word 2007 to fit your work style. Available customization categories include the following:
    • Editing
    • Cut, Copy & Paste
    • Show Document Content
    • Display
    • Print
    • Save
    • Sharing
    • General
    • Compatibility
    • Layout

Add the Options Menu to the Quick Access Toolbar

If you use the Word Options menu on a regular basis, it saves time if you add it to the Quick Access toolbar.

It’s easy! Just follow these steps:

  1. Click the Office Button.
  2. Right-click the Word Options button.
  3. Select Add to Quick Access Toolbar.

Now you don’t have to click the Office Button every time you want to change your preferences.

Finding additional help and resources

The last four tabs provide additional customization options, help, and resources for using Microsoft Office:

  • Customize: this tab contains the dialog for customizing the Quick Access Toolbar.
  • Add-ins: if you have add-ins installed, manage them here. You can add or remove add-ins, or review and manage add-ins that caused Word to not function properly.
  • Trust Center: you can access the Windows Security Center through this tab, as well as set preferences for running macros, ActiveX Controls, Add-ins, trusted locations, and more. You can also follow links to the Microsoft Office, Word, and Customer Experience Improvement Program privacy statements.
  • Resources: get to know this tab! Here is where you access links for Word update, Help About Microsoft Word, Office Diagnostics, online support, and contact information for Microsoft Corporation. Most importantly, this tab contains the link for activating your software license.

With so many customization options available, open the menu and spend time exploring each tab so you can see where your favorite user options are located. Setting up application and user preferences beforehand saves you time and frustration while you are working.

More Word Tips:

Preferences or Settings files can become damaged, causing a variety of problems. Fortunately these files are easy to test, but they change locations and names depending on your version of Word.

Procedure

  1. Quit all Office applications.
  2. Navigate to your ~/Library/Preferences/ folder and drag the file(s) listed below to your desktop. Be sure to start from your UserName folder— ~ is shorthand for your user account.
  3. Relaunch Word. The file(s) will be recreated when you do so.
  4. If all is well, trash the old file(s). In the case of the Word Preferences/Settings file, you will have to reset some preferences (and, for versions earlier than Word 2008, the AutoCorrect settings).
  5. If this doesn't help, quit Word again, trash the new files and drag the original files back to where they belong. If using Word 2008, look for leftover preferences from earlier versions (see below). Then see the Troubleshooting Index for other suggestions.

Files to Test

Since the Word Preferences or Settings files are more likely to cause problems in Word than any of the others, we recommend testing those files (the first file on each of the lists above) before any of the others.

Note: ~ indicates your user home account.

In Word 2008:

~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.Word.plist

~/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.plist

~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office 2008/Office Font Cache (12) [See Font Problems: A Special Case below.]

If testing these files in Word 2008 did not fix the problem, then check to see if you have leftover preferences from Word 2004 or earlier versions. The directions for 2004 are directly below—for earlier versions, see #1 on the Word 2008 webpage.

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In Word 2004:

~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/com.microsoft.Word.prefs.plist

~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/com.microsoft.Office.prefs.plist

~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office Font Cache (11) [See Font Problems: A Special Case below.]

In Word X:

~/Library/Preferences /Microsoft/Word Settings (10)

~/Library/Preferences /Microsoft/Microsoft Component Preferences

~/Library/Preferences /Microsoft/Microsoft Office Settings (10)

~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Carbon Registration Database

~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office Font Cache (10) [See Font Problems: A Special Case below.]

Font Problems: A Special Case

Some crashes and hangs, as well as at least one specific oddity – when the font you selected from the Font menu is not the one that displays in the font selection box or formatting palette – are attributable to a munged Office Font Cache. The procedure for testing this file is identical to that explained above. If you suspect a font menu or font display issue, try testing the Office Font Cache first.

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Additionally, corrupt or duplicate fonts can cause Word to crash, most typically on startup just after the splash screen appears. For a procedure to test for corrupt or duplicate fonts, click here. There are also third party applications which will detect such problems. One that is highly rated is FontDoctor [Lene Fredborg, 1-Oct-2018: Removed outdated link to http://www.morrisonsoftdesign.com/] (and even the FontDoctor demo can help you out).

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For troubleshooting Preference and Settings files in Word 2001 and Word 98, click here.