[CODan]

- problem program: Word 2007
- I have many years of previous experience with Word 2003, including
thousands of uses of the format painter and hundreds of pages of heavily
formatted material for my classes (I am a Math & CS professor)
- format painter works perfectly in Excel 2007 (I just checked)
- problem started, to the best of my memory, shortly after Word 2007 was
installed on my computer, when I started work on a long doc
- I don't have any other double click related problems (select a word works
fine, for example, programs run, files open)
- same problem when starting with a ctrl (safe mode I learned)
- mouse key is not defined as ESC as far as I can tell (checked mouse in
control panel; mouse settings are all standard for speed, etc.
- there are no "custom add ins" to my knowledge; the IT people did a
straight install as far as I now.
- the only customizing I've done is some styles (with shortcut keys, which I
just rest anyway) and some buttons on the Quick Access Toolbar

Is there some way to "reset" Word settings (without deleting my styles)?
Note: I just reset all keyboard shortcuts and this didn't help.

IMPT INFO
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I reset my normal template (deleted it and then word recreated it, thank you
help file) and all the format painter WORKS on all NEW docs.

So I must have done something to the normal template. I thought I just
reset margins and the font size. What did I do?

And is there anything I can do to fix my existing doc, which is now 90+ pages.

Thanks.

"Bob Buckland ?:-)" wrote:

Hi Dan,

Double clicking the format painter when you have the formatting you wish to copy 'from' selected should work in print layout view.
It should stay on until you click the format painter in Home=Clipboard again or use the esc key. Do you perhaps have a button on
your mouse defined as an Escape key? Try doing a slower double click on the Format Painter as well.

If you hold the ctrl key while starting Word do you have the same problem.
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"CODan" wrote in message ...
Thanks, and I'll use that.

Note that the double-click painter doesn't work in ANY document now in Word 2007.
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Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP

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