Both Annie and Jay have pointed out that setting the AutoShape defaults is
for the current document only. If you want to change this for all newly
created documents, you need to make the change in Normal.dot. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...alTemplate.htm

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"Roberta" wrote in message
...
Is there a way to change the default of 'no fill' when creating an object
in
a document? For example, I will use the drawing tool-bar and insert a
circle
in the document and currently the default is to have white fill in but I'd
like the default to be 'no fill'. We use Office 2002.

Thanks for your time.
Roberta