Many of the settings previously stored as binary files in the Word Settings subkey and the Excel Options subkey have now been incorporated into the Policies subkey. After you set the policy, you then specify the value for the enforced setting. In the previous version of the System Policy Editor, you could stop enforcing a system policy, but you could not return client computers to their original configuration. With Office 2000, however, you can set a policy and later clear the policy and return client computers to their previous state, whether that state is the application default or a user s customized setting. The new version for the System Policy Editor and the Office 2000 system policy templates now accept environment variables.
Environment variables take the place of actual file names, paths, and other changeable values.
By using environment variables, you can use a variable instead of a specific path, which might not be valid for every client computer. When the policy is enforced, the variable is automatically expanded to the correct value for each client computer. All rights reserved. Terms of use .