Profile Wizard

How to Distribute a Standard Office User Profile During Deployment

The Profile Wizard gives you control over which settings are deployed with Microsoft Office 2000. You can create and distribute a default user profile when you deploy Office 2000 so that all of your users start with the same settings.

For example, if you are an administrator in a large company, you can install Office 2000 on a test computer and then customize the toolbars, option settings, templates, custom dictionaries, and any other options. You then run the Profile Wizard to create an Office profile settings (OPS) file to capture all of these configuration options.

After testing the lab installation, you run the Office Custom Installation Wizard and include the OPS file that you created earlier. The OPS file settings are included in the Windows installer transform (MST file), so the customized settings are installed automatically when Office 2000 is deployed on client computers.

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The Office Custom Installation Wizard allows you to control how all the users in your organization install Office on their computers. For more information, see the Office Custom Installation Wizard.