[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Well, I've reinstated the ruler in Print Preview, so we'll see how much that
helps. Then maybe if it works, I can delete the Ruler button from the
toolbar and see if the Adobe toolbar comes back. g

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"Beth Melton" wrote in message
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I'd have to go searching but I do remember discussions about your
ruler, status bar (I think that's the one that we found to be caused
by SnagIt), and I think there was one or two settings in Tools/Options
that weren't sticking that was attributed to Adobe. Ah, here's the
thread on the ruler:

http://groups.google.com/group/micro...9906234ab462cc

(Interestingly it stemmed from a similar discussion as we are having
now. lol)

Essentially Print Preview is Page Layout view so I'd say the ruler
view is connected. That being the case, I suspect the bug you are
encountering is due to a refresh/redraw on the document window and why
the ruler doesn't go MIA until new document window is opened. (I think
there was scroll bar bug that was similar in nature.)

Also, in Word 2007 if you turn the ruler off in Print Preview it
remains off when you close it so it looks like the bug was corrected.
g

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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
...
I don't recall the previous discussion indicting either of those
causes
specifically, but indeed, I do have SnagIt, and I do have the ruler
turned
off in Print Preview (didn't know it was supposed to be on).

Of course, I would love to lay all these things at Adobe's door;
they do so
many dumb things that it's very tempting to blame them (or Symantec)
for
everything. g

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"Beth Melton" wrote in message
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IIRC, I think we had a private discussion on this and didn't we
find
that the SnagIt add-in had something to do with it? Depending on
the
version it may not display in the COM Add-ins dialog box since. I
forget which version was a "per machine" instead of a "per user"
installation.

Either that or another discussion I recall is didn't you turn your
ruler off for Print Preview? There was a specific sequence that
would
result in the ruler also ending up being turned off the next time
you
created a new document. Let's see...here you go, these steps should
reproduce it:

- Switch to Print Preview
- Turn off the display of the ruler
- Close Print Preview
Result: Ruler still displays
- Create a new document
Result: Ruler is turned off.

So this one is indeed a bug , however it does have a set of
reproducible steps and it isn't random.

I'm not sure about the Acrobat toolbar. I do know their add-ins are
poorly designed and without being able to see their code that one
may
remain a mystery...

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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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Well, I'd love to know which add-in is monkeying with my ruler
display. I
want it ON, always, in every document, all the time, but I can
have
it on in
one session and it's off in the next, on in the current document
and
off in
the next one I open (in a given session), no matter how many
times I
save
and close documents (and Word) with the ruler displayed. My
add-ins
a

DataPrompter.dot
TaskPaneController.dot
PDFMaker.dot

Also, another slight mystery: ever since I added a Ruler button
to
my
Standard toolbar (to facilitate turning the blamed thing on), the
Acrobat
toolbar, which I had to the right of it, is not displayed at
startup
even
though there's still room for it (barely). Even when I turn it on
in
a given
session and have it displayed when I quit Word, it isn't there
the
next
time. Not a real issue, since I can easily display it when I need
it
(which
is fairly infrequently)--just one more mystery (and really
surprising given
the usual persistence of that particular toolbar).

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"Beth Melton" wrote in message
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I know we've been down this road before, Graham, but I still do
not
concur with a minor bug that randomly changes the Registry. If
it
were
then the Registry key would be rebuilt which would reset it to
the
defaults and "Typing replaces selection" is not a default
setting.

I've investigated similar situations, "unexplained changes to
user
preferences", and each and every time we've found the cause. The
gremlin has always been a third-party add-in or a
document/template
that contains a macro that is responsible for this type of
behavior.
Someone recorded a macro to make a change to Tools/Options and
not
edit their macro to remove the options that do not apply and the
macro
is in an add-in or template. Even some of the Microsoft
templates
change user preferences so it's not uncommon. I'll bet if we
polled
everyone who has encounter this situation and had them list
every
add-in they have installed or template they used we'd find the
culprit.

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"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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Word 2003 has a minor bug that causes random changes to the
registry
key that holds the settings. If it becomes a problem you will
need a
macro solution to fix it.

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Mrs Tabs wrote:
Thank you Graham - the same thing happened to me and your
answer
has
solved the problem. But does anyone know why does the
programme
suddenly change like this of its own accord?

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Check tools options edit typing replaces selection.

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greenie wrote:
I used to be able to block text and type a letter which
would
replace the entire text. Now, when I block the text and
type
a
letter, the letter is just added at the end of the blocked
text.

Also, I used to be able to block text and press "backspace"
and
the
block text would be erased. Now when I block text and
press
"backspace," the cursor just goes to the beginning of the
blocked
text.

WHY IS IT DOING THIS!?!!!

Blocked text + delete works just fine though.