You may well be right, but the macro should force what happens for each
opened document.
The action of the ¶ button is determined by the settings checked in Tools
Options View Formatting Marks. If (say) paragraph mark is checked here,
the paragraph marks will be displayed regardless of the setting of the ¶
toggle.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
I don't believe that's the case, Graham. What I do see is that a
document seems to inherit the display setting of the window it is
opened in. For example, I may have NPC displayed in one document and
hide them in another. If I close the second document and open or
create a new one, it will (or at least may, depending on how I open
it) have NPC hidden even though they are still displayed in the first
document.
"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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They will appear if you open a document that has been saved with them
displayed, or if you create a document from a template saved with
them displayed.
Word 2003 has a habit of losing settings stored in the data key in
the registry (i.e. Tools Options). You can overcome this by
forcing errant settings with autorunning macros. In this instance
the command line would be
ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.ShowAll = False
See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm
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drallf wrote:
"lawtech" wrote:
The formatting marks will not shut off and It is driving me insane.
I click the button that looks like a backwords P and that doesn't
work.
If you hit "ctrl" "shift" "*" it will shut off the marks. However,
I've not been able to figure out how to keep the marks from
appearing in the first place? I'm hoping someone knows the
solution? (They just started appearing so I'm wondering if it's
caused by a virus?)