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Deviations of Sanity template for Microsoft Word
In one of the rare moments of chill I had during the past vacation, I created a template for my favourite rich text editor, aka Microsoft Word. Reasons exist in abundance: not only do I hate the unstyled look Times New Roman comes with, neither did I ever take the time to make a decent MSW template.
As you can probably tell from the screenshot below, this template was consciously inspired by Rob’s current Zooiblog design, of which I always thought it had a printy
look. Which is awesome, of course.
Some shitty document styled using the “Deviations of Sanity” template
Anyone willing to provide me with a good-looking screenshot of the DoS template in action in an English UI would be more than welcome.
How to install this thizzur
Downloading the template is the easy part. After you’ve done that, double-clicking the file will result in a new instance of Microsoft Word opening up in true DoS-style.
Things get a little harder if you intend to make DoS your default Word template. Once you know the following though, it’s an easy job. You will need to look for a special folder e.g. X:\Documents and Settings\Username\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates, copy deviations-of-sanity.dot in there and rename it into Normal.dot, overwriting the *yawn* boooring standard template.
I certainly hope this is useful for some of you; it sure is for me.
Note: By the way, does anyone have a clue what’s the correct MIME type for .dot files? For now, I’m serving ‘em up as application/msword, but I honestly don’t know if that’s a good thing…
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What the…
I’m flattered! Glad you like it. I’m kinda proud of how sexy the typography looks on OS ?, but this is bloody awesome.
Oh, and thanks for asking permission, Mathias! Thanks!
:)
Basically, it’s just the Georgia/Arial combination I stole from your design. You’re using Lucida for your
H3s; in the template, those are rendered in Georgia as well. Note that I didn’t have internet access for about a month and a half… The template would look even more like your site if I could’ve seen it for just a few seconds.The
H3s are in fact Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Lucida Sans, Arial, Verdana, sans-serif IIRC, but anyway… ;)Note to self: must… install… more… fonts…
Hey wow! I never knew what’s with the
normal.dotstuff in MS Word. It’s basically a CSS stylesheet! Props to you and Rob — it certainly looks a lot better than the default template.How is this made? Customize headings and paragraphs in MS Word then save it as a template?
Exactly!
That indeed is how it’s done. You can read more on the subject here: template basics in Microsoft Word.
You asked:
Locate your mime.types file (or the filename under which mime types are stored on your server). You can look inside your httpd.conf file, and search for the directive:
TypesConfigwill tell you in which file your mime types are saved. Open that file, and you’ll see there is probably already a mime type for MS Word.docfiles that looks like:Simply copy and paste it to a new line below, and change “doc” to “dot” in that line. Your server will recognize .dot templates as being MS Word documents. That worked for me.
This is also handy if you use a custom icon for
.dotfiles in visible “fancy” indices. You’ll need to add a line for the icon and description if you wish in yourhttpd.conffile. If you don’t add the mime type, your icon won’t be recognized (though your description will be, since it is only looking for the file description, not the mime type).