You can move the following elements between the project global template and the local project file:

As you alter settings in your project by customizing views and calendars, modifying tables, and creating sets of custom fields, for example, those changes initially apply to just the current project. If you want your custom settings available to any project opened on your local computer, you can add them to the project global template by using the Organizer, shown in Figure 31-1. Those new settings become your new defaults.

Figure 31-1. Use the Organizer to copy customized elements to the project global template and make those elements available to other projects.

When you create a new view, table, filter, or group, they’re added by default to the project global template. If you don’t want to use the default setting, you can change it so that you control whether any of these items are added to the project global template. On the File tab, click Options, and then click Advanced in the side pane. Under Display, clear the check box labeled Automatically Add New Views, Tables, Filters, And Groups To The Global.

The project global template also contains your Microsoft Project–wide settings, which you access by clicking File, Options. In the Project Options dialog box, various categories of options are available—Display, Schedule, Proofing, and so on. Certain settings apply just to the current project file; others apply to Project 2010 as a whole and change the project global template.

In many cases, you can select whether a setting should apply to the current project file or to all project files on this computer. You can use the All New Projects setting to apply specific project settings to your project global template. (See Figure 31-2.)

Figure 31-2. Settings that include the Options For This Project menu apply by default only to the current project file. However, you can set those options as a general Project-wide default by clicking All New Projects.

When you change a Project 2010 setting, every new file you open from that point on will reflect that change. When you change a local project setting and then indicate that this applies to all new projects, the project global template is updated for new projects, but that setting is not changed for existing projects.

The project global template also contains your ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar customizations. Any changes you make to the Project 2010 ribbon are universal—you see the same ribbon with every project you open on your computer.

However, you do have a choice with the Quick Access Toolbar. Although the default is for customizations to apply to all projects on your computer, you can choose to make a Quick Access Toolbar customization apply only to the current project.