Transfer MS Word/Office customizations to new Mac

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I’m installing Microsoft Word and other Office apps on a new M3 MacBook Air running Sonoma, and I’m hoping to just copy the correct files over so don’t have to reconfigure everything manually.

Unfortunately, I can’t find the files that contain my customizations, such as custom styles and headings, templates, keyboard shortcuts, etc. on my 2017 Intel MacBook Pro running Ventura.

I’ve done a number of internet searches for specific information on this but nothing with this specific information has come up.

I’ll be very grateful if someone can tell me:

  • what hidden or otherwise files I need to copy over to my new m3 MacBook

  • where to find them on my old intel MacBook

  • where to put them in my new M3 MacBook’s drive if it’s different due to the switch to Apple silicon or the newer version of MacOS

Thank you!

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In case anyone else runs into this issue, I’d forgotten about the Normal.dotm file, which I should have remembered from my Word for Windows days. It stores all your customizations.

A very helpful reddit user also told me where to find the hidden folder where it and my other user-created template files are stored, so it was easy to transfer them to my new Mac:

~/Library/Group Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office/User Content/Templates

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