Is this Word 2003? Word 2003 particularly has a bad habit of losing random
settings stored in the registry. You can faff about resetting the registry
and it may work but the problem is likely to return. The best bet is to
force the settings that change for each document using AutoNew and AutoOpen
macros. You'll find some examples and a description of how to apply them at
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm
The lines required to fix this issue are
With ActiveWindow
.DisplayHorizontalScrollBar = True
.DisplayVerticalScrollBar = True
End With
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Jayne wrote:
My scroll bars disappear ALL the time! I would say at least 50% of
the time and it's a real pain in the neck. I have no idea why this
happens. It never happens on my computer at work; only on the one at
home. There are no other problems or computer crashes or anything.
The document simply opens with the scroll bars turned off. It seems
to happen more often when I've opened a document that was part of an
email message. Seems I recall seeing something somewhere that
addressed this, but I don't recall where or what it said. Does anyone
know why this happens? I'm wondering if some add-in I've installed
is interfering. Any ideas anyone??
Jayne Baer
"Rob Kraft" wrote:
Thanks for the response. My vertical scroll bar vanished a few days
ago. I had no crashes in word or any other product. My guess is
that some specific document I opened caused the change. This
explanation helped me resolve the problem.
"Itsaplane" wrote:
Thanks Jay -- the fix worked. (Shouldn't this be in View,
Show/Hide (in case anyone at Microsoft is listening.)) Word
crashed on me about the same time - I'd guess that did it.
"Jay Freedman" wrote:
On Fri, 4 May 2007 15:10:02 -0700, Itsaplane
wrote:
I've lost the vertical and horizontal scroll bars in Word (Office
2007) -- and can't see how to get them back.
Click the Office button and choose Word Options at the bottom of
the menu. Click the Advanced tab, scroll down to the Display
category, and make sure the boxes for "Show horizontal scroll bar"
and "Show vertical scroll bar" are checked.
I'd have no idea how they would get turned off without you knowing
about it.
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Regards,
Jay Freedman
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