Thanks, I'll check that ......

"Bob Buckland ?:-)" 75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com wrote
in message ...

There are a number of things that can cause settings to not 'stick',
including add-ins (Adobe Acrobat v7 unless updated to 7.0.5,
for example), registry key corruption for Word settings, left over temp
files and Office policy settings, or a corrupted Normal.dot
template.

One article on some of things to check is this one
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/291484/en-us?FR=1

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"Uriel" wrote in message
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That's not it.

Also, normal.dot is not in a hidden folder.
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Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

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