Comments on: Group Policy templates and references for Office 2007

By: Peter S.

Peter S. — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 15:22:00 +0000

t took me hours, but I solved the issue.

Word 2007 creates a binary registry value, named ‘Settings’, in ‘HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Word\data’. There it stores its application settings. When available it’s based on the policy values.
This value was corrupted, it was caused by another policy. (I spare you the story)
In the same registry key, Outlook 2007 creates a value ‘Settingswordmail’ partly based on the (corrupted) ‘settings’-value of Word.
The consequence of this corruption was that we couldn’t adjust the setting ‘Typing replaces text’ in Outlook.

After reconfiguring our Group Policies and deleting both values, the setting can be adjusted now.

By: Peter S.

Peter S. — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:07:10 +0000

Thanx for the link to the Office 2007 settings reference. Unfortunately, it didn’t help me to find the policy for the Outlook setting “Replace selected text.” This setting is located in ‘Office Button|Editor Options|Advanced’.
And before someone doubts: I can assure it’s a policy. But which one?

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