Image: Screen shot from Word 2007 Options panel

I’m still engulfed in learning more than I’d ever thought I would about mail merges and other functionality. Part of that learning has been combing through all the different checkboxes and settings that are available in the Word 2007 options panel.

A quick review of the "Layout Options" group uncovers a huge list of settings that are just checkboxes to check on or off a variety of settings. The "Layout Options" panel is initially collapsed so the expanse of potential options are hidden from the user.

After expanding the panel I was overwhelmed with everything that could be triggered on or off. I then began to wonder if there’s any type of logical grouping or additional information that could have been shared with this information to provide examples of what exactly it is each of these things do. I’d also think that there probably could have been some additional grouping of these settings into logical categories within the "layout" section.

Did the developers get lazy with this section? Did they run out of time? Do they just not care?

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Did the Developers Get Lazy on the Layouts Option Panel

I’ve been running now on my recently wiped and refreshed laptop. Everything is going well except for one thing. I probably should have connected the laptop to my domain before doing just about anything else.

You see now, I’ve got all these personalized settings. Applications installed. Preferences configured, etc., etc., but they’re all setup on my local computer user login.

When I connected to the domain at work, all my preferences are useless on the new domain user that’s created.

My question is does anyone know of a safe and successful way of merging a local user account with a domain user account on the same machine? I tried a method I found online that including copying the user settings folders over each other and then editing the registry to point the old user to the new user with the new user’s unique system user ID. That didn’t work as planned.

Anyone else have some suggestions for me to try?

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How Do I Merge a Local and Domain User Account

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