Office Profile Wizard

Use the Office Profile Wizard to save and to restore user-defined settings in Microsoft Office 2003 applications. Most user-defined settings can be stored in an Office user profile. When you run the Office Profile Wizard to save a user profile, you create an Office profile settings file (OPS file). You can add an OPS file to a transform to apply the settings during an Office installation. Alternatively, you can run the Profile Wizard separately to restore settings to users’ computers after Office is installed.

The sections of this topic include the following:

Save or Restore Settings

Profile Wizard INI files

Command-line options

Settings not captured by the Profile Wizard

Save or Restore Settings

Start the Profile Wizard and specify the mode in which to run it; specify the OPS file to use to save or restore settings. On this page, you can also limit the Profile Wizard to selected Office applications.

Save the settings from this machine

Capture settings from the local computer in an OPS file; equivalent to using /s on the command line.

Restore previously saved settings

Restore settings from an OPS file to the local computer; equivalent to using /r on the command line.

Reset to defaults before restoring settings

Restore user settings to their default values before applying an OPS file; equivalent to using /d on the command line. This option is available only when running the wizard to restore previously saved settings.

Settings File

Specify the OPS file to use for saving or restoring settings.

Select the applications for which you want to save/restore settings

Save or restore settings for only selected applications

Profile Wizard INI files

The Profile Wizard uses the file Opw11adm.ini file to determine which settings to include in the OPS file. The INI file contains a complete set of application settings, registry entries, folders, and files such as templates to capture in the OPS file. However, you can customize Opw11adm.ini to include or exclude particular folders, files, or registry entries in the OPS file.

Open Opw11adm.ini in Notepad or another text editor and add or remove entries in the appropriate sections. For more information about what to include in each section and what syntax to use, as well as examples, see the comments in the INI file. To preserve Opw11adm.ini as a backup, save the customized INI file with a different name.

Note

When you run the Profile Wizard to create an OPS file, use the /s command-line option to specify your custom INI file. If you do not specify an INI file on the command line, then the wizard uses Opw11adm.ini.

File/folder sections

Section	Contents
[IncludeFolderTrees]	List of folder trees to include in the OPS file; includes all subfolders in the tree.
[IncludeIndividualFolders]	List of folders to include; does not include subfolders.
[IncludeIndividualFiles]	List of files to include.
[ExcludeFiles]	List of files to exclude from the OPS file.
[FolderTreesToRemove ToResetToDefaults]	List of folder trees to delete before restoring settings from the OPS file; includes subfolders.
[IndividualFilesToRemove ToResetToDefaults]	List of files to delete before restoring settings from the OPS file.
[ExcludeFilesToRemoveT oResetToDefaults]	List of files to keep when resetting to default values, regardless of their location.

When you run the Profile Wizard to apply the OPS file to users’ computers, files listed in Reset to Defaults sections of the INI file are ignored unless you also select the Reset to defaults before restoring settings check box.

Registry sections

Section	Contents
[SubstituteEnvironment Variables]	List of environment variables to substitute in registry entries; values must take REG_EXPAND_SZ data type.
[IncludeRegistryTrees]	List of registry trees to include; includes all subkeys and values in the tree.
[IncludeIndividualRegistryValues]	List of registry keys to include; includes only values in the key, not subkeys.
[ExcludeRegistryTrees]	List of value entries to include; does not include subkey, but only named value.
[ExcludeIndividual RegistryKeys]	List of registry keys to exclude; excludes all subkeys and values in the tree.
[ExcludeIndividual RegistryValues]	List of value entries to exclude; excludes only values in the key, not subkeys.
[RegistryTreesToRemove ToResetToDefaults]	List of registry trees to delete before restoring settings from the OPS file; deletes subkeys.
[IndividualRegistryValuesTo RemoveToReset-ToDefaults]	List of registry values to delete before restoring settings from the OPS file.
[RegistryTreesToExcludeT oResetToDefaults]	List of registry trees to keep when resetting to defaults; keeps all subkeys and values in the tree.
[RegistryKeysToExclude ToResetToDefaults]	List of registry keys to keep when resetting to defaults.
[RegistryValuesToExclude ToResetToDefaults]	List of value entries to keep when resetting to defaults; keeps only values, not subkeys.

When you run the Profile Wizard to apply the OPS file to users’ computers, registry keys and values listed in Reset to Defaults sections of the INI file are ignored unless you also select the Reset to defaults before restoring settings check box.

Command-line options

The Profile Wizard recognizes the following command-line options.

Options for Proflwiz.exe

Option	Definition
/?	Display the command-line syntax for Proflwiz.exe.
/a	Run Proflwiz.exe with the administrator interface (Profile Wizard); use Opw11adm.ini by default.
/u	Run Proflwiz.exe with the user interface (Save My Settings Wizard); use Opw11usr.ini by default.
/q	Run in quiet mode; do not display progress indicators or error messages. Can be used with /r or /s.
/e	Display error messages; suppress progress indicators. Can be combined with /p. Cannot be used with /q.
/p	Display progress indicators; suppress error messages. Can be combined with /e. Cannot be used with /q.
/f	Display completion notice. Can be combined with /e or /p. Cannot be used with /q.
/i <INI file>	Use specified INI file. If the path or file name contains a space, you must enclose it in quotation marks ("").
/s <OPS file>	Save settings from local computer to specified OPS file. Cannot be used with /r. Displays error messages and progress indicators by default. If the path or file name contains a space, you must enclose it in quotation marks ("").
/r <OPS file>	Apply settings from specified OPS file to the local computer. Cannot be used with /s. Displays error messages and progress indicators by default. If the path or file name contains a space, you must enclose it in quotation marks ("").

Important

If you select a custom INI file in user mode, you cannot use the Save My Settings Wizard to upload an OPS file to the Web. The Save to the Web option is disabled for all INI files except the original, unmodified Opw11usr.ini file.

Options for Office applications

Option	Definition
/access	Capture or restore settings for Microsoft Office Access 2003.
/all	Capture or restore settings for all applications, including shared applications.
/common	Capture or restore settings for shared applications.
/d	Set user settings for specified applications to default values; equivalent to the Reset to defaults before restoring settings option in the Profile Wizard.
/designer	Capture or restore settings for Forms Designer.
/fp	Capture or restore settings for Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003.
/ol	Capture or restore settings for Microsoft Office Outlook 2003.
/ppt	Capture or restore settings for Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003.
/project	Capture or restore settings for Microsoft Office Project Professional 2003.
/pub	Capture or restore settings for Microsoft Office Publisher 2003.
/rm	Capture or restore settings for Relationship Manager.
/scribbler	Capture or restore settings for Microsoft Office OneNote™ 2003.
/visio	Capture or restore settings for Microsoft Office Visio 2003.
/word	Capture or restore settings for Microsoft Office Word 2003.
/xdocs	Capture or restore settings for Microsoft Office InfoPath™ 2003.
/xl	Capture or restore settings for Microsoft Office Excel 2003.

Sample command lines

• Start the Profile Wizard and use the default OPW10adm.ini.

  ProflWiz.exe /a

• Start the Save My Settings Wizard and use the default OPW10usr.ini.

  ProflWiz.exe

• Start the Profile Wizard, use a custom INI file named Custom.ini to determine which settings to include or exclude, and save the configuration in an OPS file named MyConfig.ops.

  ProflWiz.exe /a /i Custom.ini /s MyConfig.ops

• Start the Profile Wizard and restore settings from an OPS file named MyConfig.ops but only settings for Word and Excel. Because only some applications are specified, the user is prompted to confirm.

  ProflWiz.exe /a /r MyConfig.ops /word /xl

• Start the Profile Wizard and restore settings from an OPS file named MyConfig.ops quietly, without displaying anything to the user.

  ProflWiz.exe /a /r MyConfig.ops /q 

Settings not captured by the Profile Wizard

By design, the Profile Wizard excludes some user-specific settings, such as security settings in Office applications. In addition, the following Outlook settings are not captured in an OPS file:

• Profile settings, including mail server configuration

• Storage settings, such as default delivery location and personal folder files (PST files)

• E-mail accounts and directories (Tools|Options|Mail Setup|E-mail Accounts)

• Send/Receive groups (Tools|Options|Mail Setup|Send/Receive)

• Customized views; for example, the fields displayed in the Inbox or another folder

• Outlook Bar shortcuts

• Auto-archive options set for a particular folder, which you set by right-clicking the folder, clicking Properties, and choosing options in the AutoArchive tab

• Delegate options (Tools|Options|Delegates)

• Send Immediately when connected check box (Tools|Options|Mail Setup)

• When forwarding a message option (Tools|Options|Preferences|E-mail Options)

• Mark my comments with option (Tools|Options|Preferences|E-mail Options)

• Request secure receipt for all S/MIME signed messages check box (Tools|Options|Security)

• Show an additional time zone check box (Tools|Options|Preferences|Calendar Options|Time Zone)

• Automatically decline recurring meeting requests check box (Tools|Options|Preferences|Calendar Options|Resource Scheduling)

• Automatically decline conflicting meeting requests check box (Tools|Options|Preferences|Calendar Options|Resource Scheduling)

• Automatically accept meeting requests and process cancellations check box (Tools|Options|Preferences|Calendar Options|Resource Scheduling)

Office profiles and multiple languages

Office user profiles generated by the Profile Wizard are independent of the operating system—including operating systems in other languages. For example, an OPS file created on Microsoft Windows 2000 (U.S. English version) can be restored to a computer with Microsoft Windows XP (Japanese version).

However, Office user profiles are specific to a particular Office language version. For example, if you create an OPS file in the U.S. English version of Office 2003, it cannot be restored to a computer with the localized German version of Office 2003 installed. (You can, however, restore the OPS file to a computer with the Microsoft Office 2003 Multilingual User Interface Pack (MUI Pack) for German installed, since the MUI Pack works with the core U.S. English version of Office.) There is some overlap between language families. For example, you can restore a U.S. English Office profile to a localized English or Australian version of Office 2003.

This Office language limitation exists because the different Office versions include localized folder names for the folders that contain the Office user profile information.