[Andrea]

A Google search indicated old posts in this newsgroup on permanently
disabling the Reading Layout option in Word 2003, but I'm unable to bring
them up through my newsreader, so I'm creating a different thread. I've gone
through the generally suggested solutions: unchecking the Allow box in the
General/Options tab, renaming normal.dot and forcing a new one to be
created, creating an AutoOpen macro in Normal.dot (Options.AllowReadingMode
= False). However, the checkbox kept returning--and also some of the other
Options settings didn't stay saved (e.g., Automatically Create Drawing
Canvas, Recently Used File
List) and Save options (number minutes, etc.). Finally, I deleted the Word
Data Settings registry key, but nothing seems to keep my Options settings
stable. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm using Windows XP Pro SP2.
Windows and Office 2003 are completely updated.

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This most likely indicates that a poorly written add-in is changing your
settings at startup.

--
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.

"Andrea" wrote in message
...
A Google search indicated old posts in this newsgroup on permanently
disabling the Reading Layout option in Word 2003, but I'm unable to bring
them up through my newsreader, so I'm creating a different thread. I've
gone
through the generally suggested solutions: unchecking the Allow box in the
General/Options tab, renaming normal.dot and forcing a new one to be
created, creating an AutoOpen macro in Normal.dot
(Options.AllowReadingMode
= False). However, the checkbox kept returning--and also some of the other
Options settings didn't stay saved (e.g., Automatically Create Drawing
Canvas, Recently Used File
List) and Save options (number minutes, etc.). Finally, I deleted the Word
Data Settings registry key, but nothing seems to keep my Options settings
stable. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm using Windows XP Pro SP2.
Windows and Office 2003 are completely updated.

[Andrea]

I forgot to add that I also deleted two add-ins from the registry and the
Global Templates and Addin window.

Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
This most likely indicates that a poorly written add-in is changing your
settings at startup.


"Andrea" wrote in message
...
A Google search indicated old posts in this newsgroup on permanently
disabling the Reading Layout option in Word 2003, but I'm unable to bring
them up through my newsreader, so I'm creating a different thread. I've
gone through the generally suggested solutions: unchecking the Allow box
in the General/Options tab, renaming normal.dot and forcing a new one to
be created, creating an AutoOpen macro in Normal.dot
(Options.AllowReadingMode = False). However, the checkbox kept
returning--and also some of the other Options settings didn't stay saved
(e.g., Automatically Create Drawing Canvas, Recently Used File
List) and Save options (number minutes, etc.). Finally, I deleted the
Word Data Settings registry key, but nothing seems to keep my Options
settings stable. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm using Windows XP
Pro SP2. Windows and Office 2003 are completely updated.

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Disabling add-ins in Tools | Templates and Add-ins merely unloads them for
the current session. Unless you actually remove them from the Word/Office
Startup folder (or uninstall them if they're COM add-ins), you won't have
solved the problem.

--
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.

"Andrea" wrote in message
...
I forgot to add that I also deleted two add-ins from the registry and the
Global Templates and Addin window.

Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
This most likely indicates that a poorly written add-in is changing your
settings at startup.


"Andrea" wrote in message
...
A Google search indicated old posts in this newsgroup on permanently
disabling the Reading Layout option in Word 2003, but I'm unable to
bring
them up through my newsreader, so I'm creating a different thread. I've
gone through the generally suggested solutions: unchecking the Allow
box
in the General/Options tab, renaming normal.dot and forcing a new one
to
be created, creating an AutoOpen macro in Normal.dot
(Options.AllowReadingMode = False). However, the checkbox kept
returning--and also some of the other Options settings didn't stay
saved
(e.g., Automatically Create Drawing Canvas, Recently Used File
List) and Save options (number minutes, etc.). Finally, I deleted the
Word Data Settings registry key, but nothing seems to keep my Options
settings stable. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm using Windows XP
Pro SP2. Windows and Office 2003 are completely updated.

[Andrea]

Sorry again for not being clear. I had checked the paths under the global
template window and did remove them from the Startup folders. Each was in a
different folder.

The reason I haven't written back about Graham Mayor's suggestions for
macros is that I wasn't sure that I followed the directions carefully for
the Return Settings macro I was supposed to run after deleting the registry
key, so I created a new macro, deleted the settings part of the key again,
and ran the macro. (There are also 2 auto open macros macros installed:
OpenOptions.AllowReadingMode = False and ActiveWindow.View.Type =
wdNormalView. It's too soon to tell if the settings have been retained
because it's usually all right for a while.

Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Disabling add-ins in Tools | Templates and Add-ins merely unloads them for
the current session. Unless you actually remove them from the Word/Office
Startup folder (or uninstall them if they're COM add-ins), you won't have
solved the problem.


"Andrea" wrote in message
...
I forgot to add that I also deleted two add-ins from the registry and the
Global Templates and Addin window.

Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
This most likely indicates that a poorly written add-in is changing your
settings at startup.


"Andrea" wrote in message
...
A Google search indicated old posts in this newsgroup on permanently
disabling the Reading Layout option in Word 2003, but I'm unable to
bring them up through my newsreader, so I'm creating a different
thread. I've gone through the generally suggested solutions:
unchecking the Allow box in the General/Options tab, renaming
normal.dot and forcing a new one to be created, creating an AutoOpen
macro in Normal.dot (Options.AllowReadingMode = False). However, the
checkbox kept returning--and also some of the other Options settings
didn't stay saved (e.g., Automatically Create Drawing Canvas, Recently
Used File
List) and Save options (number minutes, etc.). Finally, I deleted the
Word Data Settings registry key, but nothing seems to keep my Options
settings stable. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm using Windows XP
Pro SP2. Windows and Office 2003 are completely updated.

[Graham Mayor]

It is a fact of life that some users find some settings of the Options
volatile, exacerbated by the addition of poorly written add-ins that write
to the registry. The only sure solution is to force the settings using auto
macros. You may need a combination of
autoopen
autonew
and
autoexec
macros to fix all the likely issues.

Start the macro recorder and set all the options you require. As you move to
each new tab from options, all the settings on that tab will be recorded.
Extract the entries you want and add them to the macros.

Word's vba help explains the use of the different types of auto macros
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm also has some sample code.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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


Andrea wrote:
A Google search indicated old posts in this newsgroup on permanently
disabling the Reading Layout option in Word 2003, but I'm unable to
bring them up through my newsreader, so I'm creating a different
thread. I've gone through the generally suggested solutions:
unchecking the Allow box in the General/Options tab, renaming
normal.dot and forcing a new one to be created, creating an AutoOpen
macro in Normal.dot (Options.AllowReadingMode = False). However, the
checkbox kept returning--and also some of the other Options settings
didn't stay saved (e.g., Automatically Create Drawing Canvas,
Recently Used File List) and Save options (number minutes, etc.). Finally,
I deleted the
Word Data Settings registry key, but nothing seems to keep my Options
settings stable. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm using Windows
XP Pro SP2. Windows and Office 2003 are completely updated.

[Andrea]

I was hoping that this was fixed, but the Options settings, including
disabling Reading Layout View, are not holding. I now have 2 auto open
macros macros installed:
OpenOptions.AllowReadingMode = False and ActiveWindow.View.Type =
wdNormalView. I've read the link that you suggest (many times), but I'm not
familiar enough with macros to know exactly how to go about creating an
autonew or autoexec macro. Do I just name the macro (E.g., for autonew) and
then start recording as I would for a non-auto macro?

Graham Mayor wrote:
It is a fact of life that some users find some settings of the Options
volatile, exacerbated by the addition of poorly written add-ins that write
to the registry. The only sure solution is to force the settings using
auto macros. You may need a combination of
autoopen
autonew
and
autoexec
macros to fix all the likely issues.

Start the macro recorder and set all the options you require. As you move
to each new tab from options, all the settings on that tab will be
recorded. Extract the entries you want and add them to the macros.

Word's vba help explains the use of the different types of auto macros
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm also has some sample code.


Andrea wrote:
A Google search indicated old posts in this newsgroup on permanently
disabling the Reading Layout option in Word 2003, but I'm unable to
bring them up through my newsreader, so I'm creating a different
thread. I've gone through the generally suggested solutions:
unchecking the Allow box in the General/Options tab, renaming
normal.dot and forcing a new one to be created, creating an AutoOpen
macro in Normal.dot (Options.AllowReadingMode = False). However, the
checkbox kept returning--and also some of the other Options settings
didn't stay saved (e.g., Automatically Create Drawing Canvas,
Recently Used File List) and Save options (number minutes, etc.).
Finally, I deleted the
Word Data Settings registry key, but nothing seems to keep my Options
settings stable. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm using Windows
XP Pro SP2. Windows and Office 2003 are completely updated.

[Graham Mayor]

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


Andrea wrote:
I was hoping that this was fixed, but the Options settings, including
disabling Reading Layout View, are not holding. I now have 2 auto open
macros macros installed:
OpenOptions.AllowReadingMode = False and ActiveWindow.View.Type =
wdNormalView. I've read the link that you suggest (many times), but
I'm not familiar enough with macros to know exactly how to go about
creating an autonew or autoexec macro. Do I just name the macro
(E.g., for autonew) and then start recording as I would for a
non-auto macro?
Graham Mayor wrote:
It is a fact of life that some users find some settings of the
Options volatile, exacerbated by the addition of poorly written
add-ins that write to the registry. The only sure solution is to
force the settings using auto macros. You may need a combination of
autoopen
autonew
and
autoexec
macros to fix all the likely issues.

Start the macro recorder and set all the options you require. As you
move to each new tab from options, all the settings on that tab will
be recorded. Extract the entries you want and add them to the macros.

Word's vba help explains the use of the different types of auto
macros http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm also has some
sample code. Andrea wrote:
A Google search indicated old posts in this newsgroup on permanently
disabling the Reading Layout option in Word 2003, but I'm unable to
bring them up through my newsreader, so I'm creating a different
thread. I've gone through the generally suggested solutions:
unchecking the Allow box in the General/Options tab, renaming
normal.dot and forcing a new one to be created, creating an AutoOpen
macro in Normal.dot (Options.AllowReadingMode = False). However, the
checkbox kept returning--and also some of the other Options settings
didn't stay saved (e.g., Automatically Create Drawing Canvas,
Recently Used File List) and Save options (number minutes, etc.).
Finally, I deleted the
Word Data Settings registry key, but nothing seems to keep my
Options settings stable. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm
using Windows XP Pro SP2. Windows and Office 2003 are completely
updated.

[Andrea]

I _have_ looked at the link below--many times--as I wrote in a previous
post. Thank you for supplying the link, but it's not that clear to someone
as unfamiliar with macros as I am, and the VBA help wasn't very detailed.
Here are my questions. (1) Can the information on each of the Options tabs
be saved in an auto macro? In other words, should I contain the macro to
just some of the tabs? I notice that in your samples, you're only selecting
some options. (2) In your sample of an AutoNew macro, you "End with" a line
of code, whereas your other auto macros just say "End with," then "End Sub."
I don't know what these terms mean; is the AutoNew macro supposed to end
differently? (3) Could you explain your sample AutoExec macro? I don't
understand what it's supposed to do, specifically "forces off the display of
formatting commands." Displayed where? I understand that the AutoExec macro
is used when Word is started or when a global template is loaded, but I
don't understand why the contents of this macro aren't exactly the same as
the AutoOpen or AutoNew. Because I wasn't very grounded in macro
terminology, I recorded a macro (not an auto macro) as I opened each of the
Options tabs. Then I copied all of it to another AutoOpen and an AutoNew
macro. (I did this because I couldn't figure out if there was a way to
directly record an auto macro.) I don't know if this is adequate or
converely, too much copying. I still haven't created an AutoExec maco, but I
will once I understand what I'm doing. Thanks for your help.

Graham Mayor wrote:
See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm


Andrea wrote:
I was hoping that this was fixed, but the Options settings, including
disabling Reading Layout View, are not holding. I now have 2 auto open
macros macros installed:
OpenOptions.AllowReadingMode = False and ActiveWindow.View.Type =
wdNormalView. I've read the link that you suggest (many times), but
I'm not familiar enough with macros to know exactly how to go about
creating an autonew or autoexec macro. Do I just name the macro
(E.g., for autonew) and then start recording as I would for a
non-auto macro?
Graham Mayor wrote:
It is a fact of life that some users find some settings of the
Options volatile, exacerbated by the addition of poorly written
add-ins that write to the registry. The only sure solution is to
force the settings using auto macros. You may need a combination of
autoopen
autonew
and
autoexec
macros to fix all the likely issues.

Start the macro recorder and set all the options you require. As you
move to each new tab from options, all the settings on that tab will
be recorded. Extract the entries you want and add them to the macros.

Word's vba help explains the use of the different types of auto
macros http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm also has some
sample code. Andrea wrote:
A Google search indicated old posts in this newsgroup on permanently
disabling the Reading Layout option in Word 2003, but I'm unable to
bring them up through my newsreader, so I'm creating a different
thread. I've gone through the generally suggested solutions:
unchecking the Allow box in the General/Options tab, renaming
normal.dot and forcing a new one to be created, creating an AutoOpen
macro in Normal.dot (Options.AllowReadingMode = False). However, the
checkbox kept returning--and also some of the other Options settings
didn't stay saved (e.g., Automatically Create Drawing Canvas,
Recently Used File List) and Save options (number minutes, etc.).
Finally, I deleted the
Word Data Settings registry key, but nothing seems to keep my
Options settings stable. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm
using Windows XP Pro SP2. Windows and Office 2003 are completely
updated.

[Andrea]

Just to add to what I posted a few minutes ago, even with my just installed
AutoNew and AutoOpen macros, assuming they're correct, I just reopened Word
and the options I'd set weren't retained. It usually takes more time before
they get undone, but regardless, they weren't retained. Either I didn't
create them correctly (copying and pasting everything from a recorded macro
of each tab in Options), or I really need the AutoExec macro too, or this
problem just can't be fixed.

Andrea wrote:
I _have_ looked at the link below--many times--as I wrote in a previous
post. Thank you for supplying the link, but it's not that clear to someone
as unfamiliar with macros as I am, and the VBA help wasn't very detailed.
Here are my questions. (1) Can the information on each of the Options tabs
be saved in an auto macro? In other words, should I contain the macro to
just some of the tabs? I notice that in your samples, you're only
selecting some options. (2) In your sample of an AutoNew macro, you "End
with" a line of code, whereas your other auto macros just say "End with,"
then "End Sub." I don't know what these terms mean; is the AutoNew macro
supposed to end differently? (3) Could you explain your sample AutoExec
macro? I don't understand what it's supposed to do, specifically "forces
off the display of formatting commands." Displayed where? I understand
that the AutoExec macro is used when Word is started or when a global
template is loaded, but I don't understand why the contents of this macro
aren't exactly the same as the AutoOpen or AutoNew. Because I wasn't very
grounded in macro terminology, I recorded a macro (not an auto macro) as
I opened each of the Options tabs. Then I copied all of it to another
AutoOpen and an AutoNew macro. (I did this because I couldn't figure out
if there was a way to directly record an auto macro.) I don't know if
this is adequate or converely, too much copying. I still haven't created
an AutoExec maco, but I will once I understand what I'm doing. Thanks for
your help.
Graham Mayor wrote:
See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm


Andrea wrote:
I was hoping that this was fixed, but the Options settings, including
disabling Reading Layout View, are not holding. I now have 2 auto open
macros macros installed:
OpenOptions.AllowReadingMode = False and ActiveWindow.View.Type =
wdNormalView. I've read the link that you suggest (many times), but
I'm not familiar enough with macros to know exactly how to go about
creating an autonew or autoexec macro. Do I just name the macro
(E.g., for autonew) and then start recording as I would for a
non-auto macro?
Graham Mayor wrote:
It is a fact of life that some users find some settings of the
Options volatile, exacerbated by the addition of poorly written
add-ins that write to the registry. The only sure solution is to
force the settings using auto macros. You may need a combination of
autoopen
autonew
and
autoexec
macros to fix all the likely issues.

Start the macro recorder and set all the options you require. As you
move to each new tab from options, all the settings on that tab will
be recorded. Extract the entries you want and add them to the macros.

Word's vba help explains the use of the different types of auto
macros http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm also has some
sample code. Andrea wrote:
A Google search indicated old posts in this newsgroup on permanently
disabling the Reading Layout option in Word 2003, but I'm unable to
bring them up through my newsreader, so I'm creating a different
thread. I've gone through the generally suggested solutions:
unchecking the Allow box in the General/Options tab, renaming
normal.dot and forcing a new one to be created, creating an AutoOpen
macro in Normal.dot (Options.AllowReadingMode = False). However, the
checkbox kept returning--and also some of the other Options settings
didn't stay saved (e.g., Automatically Create Drawing Canvas,
Recently Used File List) and Save options (number minutes, etc.).
Finally, I deleted the
Word Data Settings registry key, but nothing seems to keep my
Options settings stable. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm
using Windows XP Pro SP2. Windows and Office 2003 are completely
updated.

[Graham Mayor]

There are three automacros listed on the web page:
AutoNew (which runs when a new document is created from the template)
AutoOpen (which runs when an existing document is opened)
AutoExec (which runs when Word is started).
and an associated macro CodesOff which is run from the AutoExec macro after
a short delay.

All the macros end with 'End Sub'. None of them ends with 'End With'?

You can record all of the Tools Options in a macro if you want, but usually
it is only a handful of settings that cause problems. The ones that bother
me are included in the sample macros, but you can supplement these and/or
replace them as necessary. Recording all the settings will give you the
syntax required - however as you have a specific issue let's get back to
basics.

To stop the reading layout you need the line:

Options.AllowReadingMode = False

in a macro called AutoOpen
ie at its simplest

Sub AutoOpen()
Options.AllowReadingMode = False
End Sub

If for some reason ReadingLayout mode activates for new documents, then you
also need that line in an AutoNew macro - again at its simplest

Sub AutoNew()
Options.AllowReadingMode = False
End Sub

Options are document related so AutoExec which runs before the document is
opened, will not be required.

If you have created some automacros, open the VBA editor (Alt+F11) and
replace them with the two above by copying and pasting from this message.

If you have other issues such as those documented on the web page then you
can add the relevant lines of code. (The text in green explains what the
code does). For example if you were to use the three macros in full, then
the line
Options.AllowReadingMode = True
could be inserted immediately before the EndSub statements in each of
AutoNew and AutoOpen.

If this is still not clear, contact me via my web site link with more
details.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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


Andrea wrote:
I _have_ looked at the link below--many times--as I wrote in a
previous post. Thank you for supplying the link, but it's not that
clear to someone as unfamiliar with macros as I am, and the VBA help
wasn't very detailed. Here are my questions. (1) Can the information
on each of the Options tabs be saved in an auto macro? In other
words, should I contain the macro to just some of the tabs? I notice
that in your samples, you're only selecting some options. (2) In your
sample of an AutoNew macro, you "End with" a line of code, whereas
your other auto macros just say "End with," then "End Sub." I don't
know what these terms mean; is the AutoNew macro supposed to end
differently? (3) Could you explain your sample AutoExec macro? I
don't understand what it's supposed to do, specifically "forces off
the display of formatting commands." Displayed where? I understand
that the AutoExec macro is used when Word is started or when a global
template is loaded, but I don't understand why the contents of this
macro aren't exactly the same as the AutoOpen or AutoNew. Because I
wasn't very grounded in macro terminology, I recorded a macro (not an
auto macro) as I opened each of the Options tabs. Then I copied all
of it to another AutoOpen and an AutoNew macro. (I did this because I
couldn't figure out if there was a way to directly record an auto
macro.) I don't know if this is adequate or converely, too much
copying. I still haven't created an AutoExec maco, but I will once I
understand what I'm doing. Thanks for your help.
Graham Mayor wrote:
See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm


Andrea wrote:
I was hoping that this was fixed, but the Options settings,
including disabling Reading Layout View, are not holding. I now
have 2 auto open macros macros installed:
OpenOptions.AllowReadingMode = False and ActiveWindow.View.Type =
wdNormalView. I've read the link that you suggest (many times), but
I'm not familiar enough with macros to know exactly how to go about
creating an autonew or autoexec macro. Do I just name the macro
(E.g., for autonew) and then start recording as I would for a
non-auto macro?
Graham Mayor wrote:
It is a fact of life that some users find some settings of the
Options volatile, exacerbated by the addition of poorly written
add-ins that write to the registry. The only sure solution is to
force the settings using auto macros. You may need a combination of
autoopen
autonew
and
autoexec
macros to fix all the likely issues.

Start the macro recorder and set all the options you require. As
you move to each new tab from options, all the settings on that
tab will be recorded. Extract the entries you want and add them to
the macros. Word's vba help explains the use of the different types of
auto
macros http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm also has some
sample code. Andrea wrote:
A Google search indicated old posts in this newsgroup on
permanently disabling the Reading Layout option in Word 2003, but
I'm unable to bring them up through my newsreader, so I'm
creating a different thread. I've gone through the generally
suggested solutions: unchecking the Allow box in the
General/Options tab, renaming normal.dot and forcing a new one to
be created, creating an AutoOpen macro in Normal.dot
(Options.AllowReadingMode = False). However, the checkbox kept
returning--and also some of the other Options settings didn't
stay saved (e.g., Automatically Create Drawing Canvas, Recently
Used File List) and Save options (number minutes, etc.). Finally,
I deleted the Word Data Settings registry key, but nothing seems to
keep my
Options settings stable. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm
using Windows XP Pro SP2. Windows and Office 2003 are completely
updated.