Transferring Office 2010 setting to another PC

reefoid · 24 Jan 2012 at 14:02

Does anyone know of a way to backup MS Office 2010 settings so they can be transferred to another PC? I need to move a couple of PC's for a client and the users are getting their knickers in a twist as they don't want to lose their customisations.

Thanks

anything I don't mind · 24 Jan 2012 at 14:27

Most of the office settings are in the registry and one or two files like normal.dot, but i am not aware of a one click backup solution.

Sin_Chase · 24 Jan 2012 at 14:33

Good luck, stuff lives everywhere, mainly in user profiles.

marc2003 · 24 Jan 2012 at 14:37

if it's windows 7, there is windows easy transfer which supposedly backs up all user settings. not sure if it works with office but assuming it does the whole profile, it might do.

reefoid · 24 Jan 2012 at 15:08

Thanks guys. Guessed there wasn't an easy way. There used to be in Office 2003 (Save Settings Wizard) but obviously MS decided that was too simple for them :rolleyes:

Windows Easy Transfer, I believe, doesn't do a great job, you can spend longer fixing the issues than transferring the stuff manually.

Oh well, guess the users will have to reconfigure the software themselves then.

Sin_Chase · 24 Jan 2012 at 15:16

You could just copy the entire User profile to the new machine?