July 16, 1999

In each version of Microsoft Office, users can configure settings to customize the user interface for themselves. When you upgrade to Office 2000, however, users might discover that new settings have been added, and familiar settings have moved or disappeared.

To help you prepare for the transition, the Office Resource Kit includes an inside look at what came and what went. A Microsoft Excel workbook named Settings.xls identifies which settings are affected when you upgrade to Office 2000. It also describes the conditions under which a setting moves or changes in Office 2000.

Toolbox   The Office Resource Kit includes the Migrated Settings workbook (Settings.xls), which lists the settings that migrate to Office 2000 from previous versions of Office. See the Migrated Settings workbook section of the Toolbox and download the file settings.xls. You can find this downloadable file on the Office 2000 Resource Kit Downloads page.

Separate worksheets in Settings.xls document changes between Office 2000 and each of the following versions:

• Microsoft Office 4.3
• Microsoft Office 95
• Microsoft Office 97
• Microsoft Outlook® 98

On each worksheet, settings are grouped first by application and then by menu and submenu, in the same order that users encounter them in the interface. For each entry, Settings.xls provides the following details.

Setting   Name of the stored setting.

Migrate   Whether the setting migrates to Office 2000 with its present value. The Migrate column contains the following values:

• Y – Yes
• N - No
• D – Depends (The Notes column describes the conditions.)

Notes

• Whether the setting persists after the application is restarted.
• General notes. For example, whether the setting is retained in the file associated with the application, and not in the Windows® registry or an INI file.

For example, in Microsoft Word 97 you can assign a new shortcut key to a toolbar item by setting the Press new shortcut key option in the Customize Keyboard dialog box (View menu, Toolbar submenu). This setting migrates to Word 2000, but only if the user clicks Assign when entering the shortcut key.

Settings.xls lists the Press new shortcut key setting as an entry for Word 97. You can find the entry under View Toolbars, Customize with the following details about how the setting migrates to Word 2000.

Related links

For more information setting or changing user-defined options in Office applications, see Customizing How Office Options Are Set in the Office 2000 Resource Kit.