Nope. And what's more, tools macros showed me the Autoopen, but not the
Autonew. Most confusing :-s Is being on a network likely to be an issue?
Normal is on the C: drive, and is the only version on it, but could it be
pulling one in from a network drive somewhere? My IT department don't seem to
have any ideas, and didn't seem to think the issue should be as deep as the
registry, as suggested in the post below.
"Graham Mayor" wrote:
Does running the macro from tools macros unset it?
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The Alpine Haddock wrote:
I don't know why it shouldn't work - it was doing so yesterday when I
made the reply (based on a world-weary cynicism), but this morning
I've just created a new blank document and the checkbox is ticked. I
have checked the Normal.dot template and the macros are both still
there. This left me with two documents open (the blank and Normal).
Normal had opened with no tick in the box, the blank document still
has it. I have made sure that there is only one copy of Normal on the
machine so it shouldn't be looking anywhere else.
"Graham Mayor" wrote:
The macro resets it for every new and opened document, so there is
no reason why it shouldn't work ?
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The Alpine Haddock wrote:
OK, I've added it in, and it seems to work - but then checking the
box seemed to work for a short time!! When I've gone a few days
without it reverting I'll know it was sorted and will pass it on to
all my colleagues who have the same problem.
Thanks for the fix.
"Graham Mayor" wrote:
Add the line
ActiveDocument.DisableFeatures = False
to an autonew and an autoopen macro in normal.dot - see
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm
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Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
"The Alpine Haddock" wrote:
Microsoft Word has in the Tools - Options dialogue box an
annoying little checkbox to disable features introduced after
Word 6.0/95 or Word 97. I do not wish this to be checked. Easy
enough, you think?
No matter how many times I uncheck this box (including ensuring
that it is also unchecked in Normal.dot) it keeps rechecking
itself and then not letting me (eg) align text within a table, or
save hyperlinks. And if it's in a document that already has these
features, it waits until I exit and then says that some things
won't be saved because they're not compatible with Word 6!
When I turn it off it goes away for the immediate session of Word,
possibly for the next one but then comes back. I am going slowly
insane.
Does anybody know of a way of completely and irrevocably turning
this option off?