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Templates behaving oddly (Word 2003)
I've used MS Word for a hundred years, so this isn't a "newbie" question.
My doc templates have worked nicely, only complaint has been that they "forget" that I saved them to Page Width, not 85%. It was annoying, but do-able, because once switched, all new docs opened correctly... until the next time I shut down Word and re-opened. Two weeks ago, ALL doc templates started behaving oddly. I never use markup view - no need - and suddenly every single doc template has as default "markup view" with "header and footer" NOT visible. That means when I open Word, I have to change page width, uncheck markup view, and re-check header and footer view. Even more bizar Docs that were long ago saved with the old settings, when now opened, don't show header and footer, but do show markup view. Etc. I've tried the usual remedies, i.e. resaving the doc templates. Nothing helps. Is this a result of a Microsoft "update", since it just started happening recently? |
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Templates behaving oddly (Word 2003)
Word, especially Word 2003, has always had the unforunate habit of losing
some of its user preferences. This is probably attributable to minor corruption of the Word Data key in the registry. The simplest solution is to save your preferred settings (at least the ones that change) in an autoopen and and autonew macro (and maybe in an autoexec macro depending on what you need to control) so they are re-applied for each document. The following should help - see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm for more information If your PC is very fast, you may need to change the line When:=Now + TimeValue("00:00:01"), Name:="CodesOff" to When:=Now + TimeValue("00:00:03"), Name:="CodesOff" or even When:=Now + TimeValue("00:00:05"), Name:="CodesOff" Sub AutoNew() ActiveWindow.ActivePane.DisplayRulers = True ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.ShowAll = False ActiveWindow.DisplayHorizontalScrollBar = True ActiveWindow.DisplayVerticalScrollBar = True With ActiveWindow.View .Type = wdPrintView .Zoom.Percentage = 500 .Zoom.PageFit = wdPageFitBestFit .ShowFieldCodes = False .DisplayPageBoundaries = True .ShowDrawings = True End With CommandBars("Reviewing").Visible = False End Sub Sub AutoOpen() ActiveWindow.Caption = ActiveDocument.FullName ActiveWindow.ActivePane.DisplayRulers = True ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.ShowAll = False ActiveWindow.DisplayHorizontalScrollBar = True ActiveWindow.DisplayVerticalScrollBar = True With ActiveWindow.View .Type = wdPrintView .Zoom.Percentage = 500 .Zoom.PageFit = wdPageFitBestFit .ShowFieldCodes = False .DisplayPageBoundaries = True .ShowDrawings = True End With End Sub Sub AutoExec() CommandBars("Reviewing").Visible = False Application.OnTime _ When:=Now + TimeValue("00:00:01"), Name:="CodesOff" End Sub Sub CodesOff() On Error GoTo Oops: ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.ShowAll = False Oops: End Sub Denise wrote: I've used MS Word for a hundred years, so this isn't a "newbie" question. My doc templates have worked nicely, only complaint has been that they "forget" that I saved them to Page Width, not 85%. It was annoying, but do-able, because once switched, all new docs opened correctly... until the next time I shut down Word and re-opened. Two weeks ago, ALL doc templates started behaving oddly. I never use markup view - no need - and suddenly every single doc template has as default "markup view" with "header and footer" NOT visible. That means when I open Word, I have to change page width, uncheck markup view, and re-check header and footer view. Even more bizar Docs that were long ago saved with the old settings, when now opened, don't show header and footer, but do show markup view. Etc. I've tried the usual remedies, i.e. resaving the doc templates. Nothing helps. Is this a result of a Microsoft "update", since it just started happening recently? |
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Templates behaving oddly (Word 2003)
Thank you, Graham! I will try that first thing in the morning. Did Microsoft
"fix" that in Word 2007, or is it an ongoing bug? "Graham Mayor" wrote: Word, especially Word 2003, has always had the unforunate habit of losing some of its user preferences. This is probably attributable to minor corruption of the Word Data key in the registry. The simplest solution is to save your preferred settings (at least the ones that change) in an autoopen and and autonew macro (and maybe in an autoexec macro depending on what you need to control) so they are re-applied for each document. The following should help - see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm for more information If your PC is very fast, you may need to change the line When:=Now + TimeValue("00:00:01"), Name:="CodesOff" to When:=Now + TimeValue("00:00:03"), Name:="CodesOff" or even When:=Now + TimeValue("00:00:05"), Name:="CodesOff" Sub AutoNew() ActiveWindow.ActivePane.DisplayRulers = True ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.ShowAll = False ActiveWindow.DisplayHorizontalScrollBar = True ActiveWindow.DisplayVerticalScrollBar = True With ActiveWindow.View .Type = wdPrintView .Zoom.Percentage = 500 .Zoom.PageFit = wdPageFitBestFit .ShowFieldCodes = False .DisplayPageBoundaries = True .ShowDrawings = True End With CommandBars("Reviewing").Visible = False End Sub Sub AutoOpen() ActiveWindow.Caption = ActiveDocument.FullName ActiveWindow.ActivePane.DisplayRulers = True ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.ShowAll = False ActiveWindow.DisplayHorizontalScrollBar = True ActiveWindow.DisplayVerticalScrollBar = True With ActiveWindow.View .Type = wdPrintView .Zoom.Percentage = 500 .Zoom.PageFit = wdPageFitBestFit .ShowFieldCodes = False .DisplayPageBoundaries = True .ShowDrawings = True End With End Sub Sub AutoExec() CommandBars("Reviewing").Visible = False Application.OnTime _ When:=Now + TimeValue("00:00:01"), Name:="CodesOff" End Sub Sub CodesOff() On Error GoTo Oops: ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.ShowAll = False Oops: End Sub Denise wrote: I've used MS Word for a hundred years, so this isn't a "newbie" question. My doc templates have worked nicely, only complaint has been that they "forget" that I saved them to Page Width, not 85%. It was annoying, but do-able, because once switched, all new docs opened correctly... until the next time I shut down Word and re-opened. Two weeks ago, ALL doc templates started behaving oddly. I never use markup view - no need - and suddenly every single doc template has as default "markup view" with "header and footer" NOT visible. That means when I open Word, I have to change page width, uncheck markup view, and re-check header and footer view. Even more bizar Docs that were long ago saved with the old settings, when now opened, don't show header and footer, but do show markup view. Etc. I've tried the usual remedies, i.e. resaving the doc templates. Nothing helps. Is this a result of a Microsoft "update", since it just started happening recently? |
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Templates behaving oddly (Word 2003)
Word 2007 operates in a dramatically different fashion from 2003 such that
the comparison is not really valid. It was a particular problem with Word 2003, but easy enough to control with macros. I don't think anyone has got to the bottom of why it happens and not all users who experience the problem suffer the same changes. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Denise wrote: Thank you, Graham! I will try that first thing in the morning. Did Microsoft "fix" that in Word 2007, or is it an ongoing bug? "Graham Mayor" wrote: Word, especially Word 2003, has always had the unfortunate habit of losing some of its user preferences. This is probably attributable to minor corruption of the Word Data key in the registry. The simplest solution is to save your preferred settings (at least the ones that change) in an autoopen and autonew macro (and maybe in an autoexec macro depending on what you need to control) so they are re-applied for each document. The following should help - see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm for more information If your PC is very fast, you may need to change the line When:=Now + TimeValue("00:00:01"), Name:="CodesOff" to When:=Now + TimeValue("00:00:03"), Name:="CodesOff" or even When:=Now + TimeValue("00:00:05"), Name:="CodesOff" Sub AutoNew() ActiveWindow.ActivePane.DisplayRulers = True ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.ShowAll = False ActiveWindow.DisplayHorizontalScrollBar = True ActiveWindow.DisplayVerticalScrollBar = True With ActiveWindow.View .Type = wdPrintView .Zoom.Percentage = 500 .Zoom.PageFit = wdPageFitBestFit .ShowFieldCodes = False .DisplayPageBoundaries = True .ShowDrawings = True End With CommandBars("Reviewing").Visible = False End Sub Sub AutoOpen() ActiveWindow.Caption = ActiveDocument.FullName ActiveWindow.ActivePane.DisplayRulers = True ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.ShowAll = False ActiveWindow.DisplayHorizontalScrollBar = True ActiveWindow.DisplayVerticalScrollBar = True With ActiveWindow.View .Type = wdPrintView .Zoom.Percentage = 500 .Zoom.PageFit = wdPageFitBestFit .ShowFieldCodes = False .DisplayPageBoundaries = True .ShowDrawings = True End With End Sub Sub AutoExec() CommandBars("Reviewing").Visible = False Application.OnTime _ When:=Now + TimeValue("00:00:01"), Name:="CodesOff" End Sub Sub CodesOff() On Error GoTo Oops: ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.ShowAll = False Oops: End Sub Denise wrote: I've used MS Word for a hundred years, so this isn't a "newbie" question. My doc templates have worked nicely, only complaint has been that they "forget" that I saved them to Page Width, not 85%. It was annoying, but do-able, because once switched, all new docs opened correctly... until the next time I shut down Word and re-opened. Two weeks ago, ALL doc templates started behaving oddly. I never use markup view - no need - and suddenly every single doc template has as default "markup view" with "header and footer" NOT visible. That means when I open Word, I have to change page width, uncheck markup view, and re-check header and footer view. Even more bizar Docs that were long ago saved with the old settings, when now opened, don't show header and footer, but do show markup view. Etc. I've tried the usual remedies, i.e. resaving the doc templates. Nothing helps. Is this a result of a Microsoft "update", since it just started happening recently? |
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Templates behaving oddly (Word 2003)
If this situation has recently occurred then typically the behavior you
describe points to an add-in causing the issue to occur. There are numerous ill-behaved add-ins that modify user and document preferences out there. Did you install any new hardware or software recently? If you go to Tools/Templates and Add-ins do you see any add-ins in the Global Templates and Add-ins list? There are other places add-ins can hide so if you'd prefer to find the source then let us know and we can help troubleshoot the issue with you. Personally, I'm one that wants to know "what" is modifying my documents -- you never know other changes that it may be making. :-) Please post all follow-up questions to the newsgroup. Requests for assistance by email cannot be acknowledged. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP Coauthor of Word 2007 Inside Out: http://www.microsoft.com/MSPress/boo...x#AboutTheBook Word FAQ: http://mvps.org/word TechTrax eZine: http://mousetrax.com/techtrax/ MVP FAQ site: http://mvps.org/ "Denise" wrote in message news I've used MS Word for a hundred years, so this isn't a "newbie" question. My doc templates have worked nicely, only complaint has been that they "forget" that I saved them to Page Width, not 85%. It was annoying, but do-able, because once switched, all new docs opened correctly... until the next time I shut down Word and re-opened. Two weeks ago, ALL doc templates started behaving oddly. I never use markup view - no need - and suddenly every single doc template has as default "markup view" with "header and footer" NOT visible. That means when I open Word, I have to change page width, uncheck markup view, and re-check header and footer view. Even more bizar Docs that were long ago saved with the old settings, when now opened, don't show header and footer, but do show markup view. Etc. I've tried the usual remedies, i.e. resaving the doc templates. Nothing helps. Is this a result of a Microsoft "update", since it just started happening recently? |
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