[RWild]

Running Word 2003 SP2 on XPPro. My rulers have apparently decided to display
in units of "characters" even though this is not a choice for units and the
default font is NOT a fixed font. Paragraph formatting is in characters also.

I tried closing Word and deleting normal.dot and doing a "detect and
repair." Neither fixed the problem. Another wrinkle is that, if I tell Word
to "check for updates," if finds three "required" updates for Word 2000!! - I
am running 2003 SP2.

How do I fix this?

[Carol]

See: http://www.gmayor.com/Character_Units.htm
--
Carol A. Bratt, MCP



"RWild" wrote:

Running Word 2003 SP2 on XPPro. My rulers have apparently decided to display
in units of "characters" even though this is not a choice for units and the
default font is NOT a fixed font. Paragraph formatting is in characters also.

I tried closing Word and deleting normal.dot and doing a "detect and
repair." Neither fixed the problem. Another wrinkle is that, if I tell Word
to "check for updates," if finds three "required" updates for Word 2000!! - I
am running 2003 SP2.

How do I fix this?

[RWild]

THANKS YOU!!

I was going nuts and that fixed it.

"Carol" wrote:

See: http://www.gmayor.com/Character_Units.htm
--
Carol A. Bratt, MCP



"RWild" wrote:

Running Word 2003 SP2 on XPPro. My rulers have apparently decided to display
in units of "characters" even though this is not a choice for units and the
default font is NOT a fixed font. Paragraph formatting is in characters also.

I tried closing Word and deleting normal.dot and doing a "detect and
repair." Neither fixed the problem. Another wrinkle is that, if I tell Word
to "check for updates," if finds three "required" updates for Word 2000!! - I
am running 2003 SP2.

How do I fix this?

[Carol]

Glad I could help you!
--
Carol A. Bratt, MCP



"RWild" wrote:

THANKS YOU!!

I was going nuts and that fixed it.

"Carol" wrote:

See: http://www.gmayor.com/Character_Units.htm
--
Carol A. Bratt, MCP



"RWild" wrote:

Running Word 2003 SP2 on XPPro. My rulers have apparently decided to display
in units of "characters" even though this is not a choice for units and the
default font is NOT a fixed font. Paragraph formatting is in characters also.

I tried closing Word and deleting normal.dot and doing a "detect and
repair." Neither fixed the problem. Another wrinkle is that, if I tell Word
to "check for updates," if finds three "required" updates for Word 2000!! - I
am running 2003 SP2.

How do I fix this?

[Pollymary54]

Carol, have tried everything you suggested on your page, but it didn't work.
I've worked OK, the problem just appeared out of nowhere yesterday. I'm
having to write docs on pub.
--
Pollymary54 from sunny North England


"Carol" wrote:

Glad I could help you!
--
Carol A. Bratt, MCP



"RWild" wrote:

THANKS YOU!!

I was going nuts and that fixed it.

"Carol" wrote:

See: http://www.gmayor.com/Character_Units.htm
--
Carol A. Bratt, MCP



"RWild" wrote:

Running Word 2003 SP2 on XPPro. My rulers have apparently decided to display
in units of "characters" even though this is not a choice for units and the
default font is NOT a fixed font. Paragraph formatting is in characters also.

I tried closing Word and deleting normal.dot and doing a "detect and
repair." Neither fixed the problem. Another wrinkle is that, if I tell Word
to "check for updates," if finds three "required" updates for Word 2000!! - I
am running 2003 SP2.

How do I fix this?

[Graham Mayor]

Did you specifically do this bit?:-

Press ALT+F11. This opens the macro editor. Press CTRL+G (View Immediate
Window). This provides a 'chat' window in which you can type vba code to be
executed immediately. In that window, type

Options.UseCharacterUnit =False

and press the enter key. This turns off character units. If it still doesn't
work rename the settings sub key of the Word data key in the registry to
oldsettings then restart Word and try it again.
http://www.gmayor.com/my_toolbars_are_missing.htm shows how to find the data
key.

If necessary, see also
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm then
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...peningWord.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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


Pollymary54 wrote:
Carol, have tried everything you suggested on your page, but it
didn't work. I've worked OK, the problem just appeared out of nowhere
yesterday. I'm having to write docs on pub.

Glad I could help you!
--
Carol A. Bratt, MCP



"RWild" wrote:

THANKS YOU!!

I was going nuts and that fixed it.

"Carol" wrote:

See: http://www.gmayor.com/Character_Units.htm
--
Carol A. Bratt, MCP



"RWild" wrote:

Running Word 2003 SP2 on XPPro. My rulers have apparently
decided to display in units of "characters" even though this is
not a choice for units and the default font is NOT a fixed font.
Paragraph formatting is in characters also.

I tried closing Word and deleting normal.dot and doing a "detect
and
repair." Neither fixed the problem. Another wrinkle is that, if
I tell Word to "check for updates," if finds three "required"
updates for Word 2000!! - I am running 2003 SP2.

How do I fix this?