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Opening files in Draft View
Word 2007 (new user to this version) under Win XP.
Asked a similar version of this question about two weeks ago, and got help that I thought would solve things. But . . . I have done the following: 1. Gone into Word Options and ticked "allow files to open in draft view." 2. Modified normal.dotm so that it 'should' open in draft view. When I open normal.dotm as a template, by the way, it opens in draft view. 3. Tried to open a new file based on normal.dotm. It consistently opens in print view. Can someone help me understand what's going on, or what I'm doing wrong? It's no big deal in a way (the view can be quickly switched), but I'm struggling to figure out how things should work in this new version, and this behavior is baffling. Thanks, as always, for any replies. Tom |
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It certainly works for me. Opening the Normal template as a document,
setting the view, adding and deleting a space (to mark the document as modified), saving and closing seems to do the trick. Did you verify that "Allow opening a document in Draft view" is still checked in Word Options? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Tom Smith" wrote in message ... Word 2007 (new user to this version) under Win XP. Asked a similar version of this question about two weeks ago, and got help that I thought would solve things. But . . . I have done the following: 1. Gone into Word Options and ticked "allow files to open in draft view." 2. Modified normal.dotm so that it 'should' open in draft view. When I open normal.dotm as a template, by the way, it opens in draft view. 3. Tried to open a new file based on normal.dotm. It consistently opens in print view. Can someone help me understand what's going on, or what I'm doing wrong? It's no big deal in a way (the view can be quickly switched), but I'm struggling to figure out how things should work in this new version, and this behavior is baffling. Thanks, as always, for any replies. Tom |
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I did and it is. I'm wondering if there isn't some other business going on
because I also found that normal.dotm had somehow had its line spacing changed--and I didn't do that. My inclination now is to delete the template and have Word create a new one and see if that doesn't fix things. But thanks anyway for the reply. Tom "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... It certainly works for me. Opening the Normal template as a document, setting the view, adding and deleting a space (to mark the document as modified), saving and closing seems to do the trick. Did you verify that "Allow opening a document in Draft view" is still checked in Word Options? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Tom Smith" wrote in message ... Word 2007 (new user to this version) under Win XP. Asked a similar version of this question about two weeks ago, and got help that I thought would solve things. But . . . I have done the following: 1. Gone into Word Options and ticked "allow files to open in draft view." 2. Modified normal.dotm so that it 'should' open in draft view. When I open normal.dotm as a template, by the way, it opens in draft view. 3. Tried to open a new file based on normal.dotm. It consistently opens in print view. Can someone help me understand what's going on, or what I'm doing wrong? It's no big deal in a way (the view can be quickly switched), but I'm struggling to figure out how things should work in this new version, and this behavior is baffling. Thanks, as always, for any replies. Tom |
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I agree: the template is likely to be corrupt. Just locate it (see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm) and then rename the file. Alternatively, if you are on a network, it is possible that the normal.dotm file is being replaced, for example on each login. That might be more difficult to fix. Try talking to the administrator. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Tom Smith" wrote in message ... I did and it is. I'm wondering if there isn't some other business going on because I also found that normal.dotm had somehow had its line spacing changed--and I didn't do that. My inclination now is to delete the template and have Word create a new one and see if that doesn't fix things. But thanks anyway for the reply. Tom "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... It certainly works for me. Opening the Normal template as a document, setting the view, adding and deleting a space (to mark the document as modified), saving and closing seems to do the trick. Did you verify that "Allow opening a document in Draft view" is still checked in Word Options? -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Tom Smith" wrote in message ... Word 2007 (new user to this version) under Win XP. Asked a similar version of this question about two weeks ago, and got help that I thought would solve things. But . . . I have done the following: 1. Gone into Word Options and ticked "allow files to open in draft view." 2. Modified normal.dotm so that it 'should' open in draft view. When I open normal.dotm as a template, by the way, it opens in draft view. 3. Tried to open a new file based on normal.dotm. It consistently opens in print view. Can someone help me understand what's going on, or what I'm doing wrong? It's no big deal in a way (the view can be quickly switched), but I'm struggling to figure out how things should work in this new version, and this behavior is baffling. Thanks, as always, for any replies. Tom |
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