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Customising the default settings for Auto-format and page view.
I am using Word 2003 and recently my Word package has resorted to
autoformatting lists and displaying the page (print layout) at 150% rather than the settings I originally had. (It was quite happy for over a year!). I have tried altering the settings in Tools/Autocorrect Options to what I want and the zoom setting to page width, but every time I launch the software I lose the customised settings. Can anyone solve this problem for me? Many thanks, |
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Customising the default settings for Auto-format and page view.
Hi ?B?VG9tIEY=?=,
I am using Word 2003 and recently my Word package has resorted to autoformatting lists and displaying the page (print layout) at 150% rather than the settings I originally had. (It was quite happy for over a year!). I have tried altering the settings in Tools/Autocorrect Options to what I want and the zoom setting to page width, but every time I launch the software I lose the customised settings. Can anyone solve this problem for me? If you hold down CTRL to start Word in Safe Mode, are you back to the installation default settings? (Or at least no longer at 150% zoom.) It sounds as if you have some kind of "tool" (Add-in) that's changing these settings on you. Installed anything, recently? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Hi Cindy,
Just tried starting Word in 'Safe' mode... this has reset to the default language (US English), but has kept my customized toolbars and a new document is viewed at 150%. Yesterday after posting my original message I deleted the 'normal' template and then recreated it with my customized settings. This worked for several restarts of the software, but when I came to launch the software after the computer had been shut down and restarted the original problem re-occurred! I have not installed any software recently (as far as I know!), but I have downloaded some templates from the MS Office site to get some ideas for a document I'm currently working on, however I have opened each of these only once and am now using a template I have created myself from scratch! Any thoughts would be appreciated! Tom F "Cindy M." wrote: Hi ?B?VG9tIEY=?=, I am using Word 2003 and recently my Word package has resorted to autoformatting lists and displaying the page (print layout) at 150% rather than the settings I originally had. (It was quite happy for over a year!). I have tried altering the settings in Tools/Autocorrect Options to what I want and the zoom setting to page width, but every time I launch the software I lose the customised settings. Can anyone solve this problem for me? If you hold down CTRL to start Word in Safe Mode, are you back to the installation default settings? (Or at least no longer at 150% zoom.) It sounds as if you have some kind of "tool" (Add-in) that's changing these settings on you. Installed anything, recently? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Customising the default settings for Auto-format and page view
It's not entirely clear what you're saying, but if you're saying that you
created Normal.dot from scratch, be aware that you cannot do this. Only Word can create a Normal.dot. Also, if you were seeing customized toolbars, then you were not really starting in Safe Mode, which suppresses all such customizations. To start in Office Safe Mode, press Ctrl while you start Word. You will be asked if you want to run in Office Safe Mode, and you have to answer yes. A similar effect (though not exactly the same) can be achieved by starting Word from this command line: Start | Run: winword /a -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Tom F" wrote in message ... Hi Cindy, Just tried starting Word in 'Safe' mode... this has reset to the default language (US English), but has kept my customized toolbars and a new document is viewed at 150%. Yesterday after posting my original message I deleted the 'normal' template and then recreated it with my customized settings. This worked for several restarts of the software, but when I came to launch the software after the computer had been shut down and restarted the original problem re-occurred! I have not installed any software recently (as far as I know!), but I have downloaded some templates from the MS Office site to get some ideas for a document I'm currently working on, however I have opened each of these only once and am now using a template I have created myself from scratch! Any thoughts would be appreciated! Tom F "Cindy M." wrote: Hi ?B?VG9tIEY=?=, I am using Word 2003 and recently my Word package has resorted to autoformatting lists and displaying the page (print layout) at 150% rather than the settings I originally had. (It was quite happy for over a year!). I have tried altering the settings in Tools/Autocorrect Options to what I want and the zoom setting to page width, but every time I launch the software I lose the customised settings. Can anyone solve this problem for me? If you hold down CTRL to start Word in Safe Mode, are you back to the installation default settings? (Or at least no longer at 150% zoom.) It sounds as if you have some kind of "tool" (Add-in) that's changing these settings on you. Installed anything, recently? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Hi Suzanne,
No Word created normal.dot to which I then customized to my preferences. I had made a mistake about the customised toolbars appearing in 'safe' mode as mine are not too different to the default, but is the default print layout view 150%? Either way the safe mode issue does not solve the fact that after I have altered the behaviour of auto-format through Tools/Autocorrect Options... it reverts back to the default settings after a reboot and also the default view revert back to 150% (print layout) whereas I want page width (print layout). Any thoughts? Tom F "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It's not entirely clear what you're saying, but if you're saying that you created Normal.dot from scratch, be aware that you cannot do this. Only Word can create a Normal.dot. Also, if you were seeing customized toolbars, then you were not really starting in Safe Mode, which suppresses all such customizations. To start in Office Safe Mode, press Ctrl while you start Word. You will be asked if you want to run in Office Safe Mode, and you have to answer yes. A similar effect (though not exactly the same) can be achieved by starting Word from this command line: Start | Run: winword /a -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Tom F" wrote in message ... Hi Cindy, Just tried starting Word in 'Safe' mode... this has reset to the default language (US English), but has kept my customized toolbars and a new document is viewed at 150%. Yesterday after posting my original message I deleted the 'normal' template and then recreated it with my customized settings. This worked for several restarts of the software, but when I came to launch the software after the computer had been shut down and restarted the original problem re-occurred! I have not installed any software recently (as far as I know!), but I have downloaded some templates from the MS Office site to get some ideas for a document I'm currently working on, however I have opened each of these only once and am now using a template I have created myself from scratch! Any thoughts would be appreciated! Tom F "Cindy M." wrote: Hi ?B?VG9tIEY=?=, I am using Word 2003 and recently my Word package has resorted to autoformatting lists and displaying the page (print layout) at 150% rather than the settings I originally had. (It was quite happy for over a year!). I have tried altering the settings in Tools/Autocorrect Options to what I want and the zoom setting to page width, but every time I launch the software I lose the customised settings. Can anyone solve this problem for me? If you hold down CTRL to start Word in Safe Mode, are you back to the installation default settings? (Or at least no longer at 150% zoom.) It sounds as if you have some kind of "tool" (Add-in) that's changing these settings on you. Installed anything, recently? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Well, you can look at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/SaveViewAndZoom.htm,
but recent versions of Word seem to have a mind of their own in this regard, and sometimes it's necessary to compel them with AutoExec, AutoNew, and/or AutoOpen macros. Failure to save options is another issue, since they are not, for the most part, stored in Normal.dot. See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm for information on how to rebuild a damaged Registry key. But often the incorrect settings result from an add-in, and the only way to avoid that (unless you can contact the add-in publisher and get it fixed) is to stop using the add-in. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Tom F" wrote in message ... Hi Suzanne, No Word created normal.dot to which I then customized to my preferences. I had made a mistake about the customised toolbars appearing in 'safe' mode as mine are not too different to the default, but is the default print layout view 150%? Either way the safe mode issue does not solve the fact that after I have altered the behaviour of auto-format through Tools/Autocorrect Options... it reverts back to the default settings after a reboot and also the default view revert back to 150% (print layout) whereas I want page width (print layout). Any thoughts? Tom F "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: It's not entirely clear what you're saying, but if you're saying that you created Normal.dot from scratch, be aware that you cannot do this. Only Word can create a Normal.dot. Also, if you were seeing customized toolbars, then you were not really starting in Safe Mode, which suppresses all such customizations. To start in Office Safe Mode, press Ctrl while you start Word. You will be asked if you want to run in Office Safe Mode, and you have to answer yes. A similar effect (though not exactly the same) can be achieved by starting Word from this command line: Start | Run: winword /a -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Tom F" wrote in message ... Hi Cindy, Just tried starting Word in 'Safe' mode... this has reset to the default language (US English), but has kept my customized toolbars and a new document is viewed at 150%. Yesterday after posting my original message I deleted the 'normal' template and then recreated it with my customized settings. This worked for several restarts of the software, but when I came to launch the software after the computer had been shut down and restarted the original problem re-occurred! I have not installed any software recently (as far as I know!), but I have downloaded some templates from the MS Office site to get some ideas for a document I'm currently working on, however I have opened each of these only once and am now using a template I have created myself from scratch! Any thoughts would be appreciated! Tom F "Cindy M." wrote: Hi ?B?VG9tIEY=?=, I am using Word 2003 and recently my Word package has resorted to autoformatting lists and displaying the page (print layout) at 150% rather than the settings I originally had. (It was quite happy for over a year!). I have tried altering the settings in Tools/Autocorrect Options to what I want and the zoom setting to page width, but every time I launch the software I lose the customised settings. Can anyone solve this problem for me? If you hold down CTRL to start Word in Safe Mode, are you back to the installation default settings? (Or at least no longer at 150% zoom.) It sounds as if you have some kind of "tool" (Add-in) that's changing these settings on you. Installed anything, recently? Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Customising the default settings for Auto-format and page view
Hi Tom,
Just tried starting Word in 'Safe' mode... this has reset to the default language (US English), but has kept my customized toolbars and a new document is viewed at 150%. Yesterday after posting my original message I deleted the 'normal' template and then recreated it with my customized settings. This worked for several restarts of the software, but when I came to launch the software after the computer had been shut down and restarted the original problem re-occurred! I have not installed any software recently (as far as I know!), but I have downloaded some templates from the MS Office site to get some ideas for a document I'm currently working on, however I have opened each of these only once and am now using a template I have created myself from scratch! Hmmm. After re-booting Windows, eh? I guess the next thing I'd do is check my system for the Normal.dot file. If it turns up more than one it's possible Word is saving your customizations in one copy and loading them from another. I'd also try recreating the Data key in the Registry, as Suzanne mentions. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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