[Bryan Bloom]

For some reason, every once in a while I will open Word and the default view
for the ruler is points..... I have to reset it to inches. Sometimes even
the view changes on its own.

Anyone know why this takes place and why I have to keep changing it?

Thanks so much.

Bryan Bloom

[Graham Mayor]

See http://www.gmayor.com/Character_Units.htm

However if you are sure they are points and not character units and this is
Word 2003, you may be suffering from Word's reluctance to hold some random
settings in the registry data key. The easy solution to that is to force the
measurement units with auto macros for each document i.e. add the line

Options.MeasurementUnit = wdInches

to both an autoopen and an autonew macro in normal.dot
see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Bryan Bloom wrote:
For some reason, every once in a while I will open Word and the
default view for the ruler is points..... I have to reset it to
inches. Sometimes even the view changes on its own.

Anyone know why this takes place and why I have to keep changing it?

Thanks so much.

Bryan Bloom

[Bryan Bloom]

Thanks Graham, I did what you said and it is much appreciated. I wish I
could buy your house in Cyprus!

Bryan

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

See http://www.gmayor.com/Character_Units.htm

However if you are sure they are points and not character units and this is
Word 2003, you may be suffering from Word's reluctance to hold some random
settings in the registry data key. The easy solution to that is to force the
measurement units with auto macros for each document i.e. add the line

Options.MeasurementUnit = wdInches

to both an autoopen and an autonew macro in normal.dot
see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Bryan Bloom wrote:
For some reason, every once in a while I will open Word and the
default view for the ruler is points..... I have to reset it to
inches. Sometimes even the view changes on its own.

Anyone know why this takes place and why I have to keep changing it?

Thanks so much.

Bryan Bloom

[Graham Mayor]

I wish you could too - though frankly I am in no real hurry to sell

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Bryan Bloom wrote:
Thanks Graham, I did what you said and it is much appreciated. I
wish I could buy your house in Cyprus!

Bryan

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

See http://www.gmayor.com/Character_Units.htm

However if you are sure they are points and not character units and
this is Word 2003, you may be suffering from Word's reluctance to
hold some random settings in the registry data key. The easy
solution to that is to force the measurement units with auto macros
for each document i.e. add the line

Options.MeasurementUnit = wdInches

to both an autoopen and an autonew macro in normal.dot
see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



Bryan Bloom wrote:
For some reason, every once in a while I will open Word and the
default view for the ruler is points..... I have to reset it to
inches. Sometimes even the view changes on its own.

Anyone know why this takes place and why I have to keep changing it?

Thanks so much.

Bryan Bloom