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Reading Pane (Pain!)
I have customized my 'normal.dot' to fit my working environment. Two of the
things I did was deselect "Allow starting in Reading Layout" and "Automatically create drawing canvas...". My Outlook editor is Word. Why then do these two items keep cropping back up? I generally don't notice that it has slipped down the slippery slope until I open someone's email and it opens in reading layout. (why did Microsoft think this was a great idea?). If I open my normal .dot to investigate, the items are re-checked. Do Microsoft updates have anything to do with these items resetting? Other customizations like macros are there and unchanged... any ideas on how to make these two annoyances go away permanently? |
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Reading Pane (Pain!)
Add-ins are more often the culprit when settings such as this are changed or
not saved. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Lenny" wrote in message ... I have customized my 'normal.dot' to fit my working environment. Two of the things I did was deselect "Allow starting in Reading Layout" and "Automatically create drawing canvas...". My Outlook editor is Word. Why then do these two items keep cropping back up? I generally don't notice that it has slipped down the slippery slope until I open someone's email and it opens in reading layout. (why did Microsoft think this was a great idea?). If I open my normal .dot to investigate, the items are re-checked. Do Microsoft updates have anything to do with these items resetting? Other customizations like macros are there and unchanged... any ideas on how to make these two annoyances go away permanently? |
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Reading Pane (Pain!)
Suzanne: for the uninitiated of us, can you describe what type of add-in
and/or what add-ins are in the Word environment? Other than macros or a simple vb routine, I don't recall bringinig in any add-ins to my documents..... My thanks, Lenny "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Add-ins are more often the culprit when settings such as this are changed or not saved. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Lenny" wrote in message ... I have customized my 'normal.dot' to fit my working environment. Two of the things I did was deselect "Allow starting in Reading Layout" and "Automatically create drawing canvas...". My Outlook editor is Word. Why then do these two items keep cropping back up? I generally don't notice that it has slipped down the slippery slope until I open someone's email and it opens in reading layout. (why did Microsoft think this was a great idea?). If I open my normal .dot to investigate, the items are re-checked. Do Microsoft updates have anything to do with these items resetting? Other customizations like macros are there and unchanged... any ideas on how to make these two annoyances go away permanently? |
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Reading Pane (Pain!)
See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...sInstalled.htm.
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Lenny" wrote in message ... Suzanne: for the uninitiated of us, can you describe what type of add-in and/or what add-ins are in the Word environment? Other than macros or a simple vb routine, I don't recall bringinig in any add-ins to my documents..... My thanks, Lenny "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Add-ins are more often the culprit when settings such as this are changed or not saved. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Lenny" wrote in message ... I have customized my 'normal.dot' to fit my working environment. Two of the things I did was deselect "Allow starting in Reading Layout" and "Automatically create drawing canvas...". My Outlook editor is Word. Why then do these two items keep cropping back up? I generally don't notice that it has slipped down the slippery slope until I open someone's and it opens in reading layout. (why did Microsoft think this was a great idea?). If I open my normal .dot to investigate, the items are re-checked. Do Microsoft updates have anything to do with these items resetting? Other customizations like macros are there and unchanged... any ideas on how to make these two annoyances go away permanently? |
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Reading Pane (Pain!)
As Suzanne indicates add-ins are usually blamed for this type of issue, but
having had the problem occur when no add-ins are installed, I suspect it is just one possibility. I fear that Word 2003 is simply prone to minor corruption of the settings key in the registry (where these settings are stored) brought upon by some (as yet) unidentified factor. The individual settings that corrupt do not appear consistent either which makes it difficult to apply a panacea; however the best approach if you are plagued with this issue is to correct the errant settings with an autonew and an autoopen macro in normal.dot, so at least it starts out right. Using Outlook as e-mail editor only adds to the difficulties. I would suggest that you use Outlook's own quite competent editor. The code required to fix these two issues is With Options .AllowReadingMode = False .AutoCreateNewDrawings = False End With See the section on automacros at 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 Lenny wrote: I have customized my 'normal.dot' to fit my working environment. Two of the things I did was deselect "Allow starting in Reading Layout" and "Automatically create drawing canvas...". My Outlook editor is Word. Why then do these two items keep cropping back up? I generally don't notice that it has slipped down the slippery slope until I open someone's email and it opens in reading layout. (why did Microsoft think this was a great idea?). If I open my normal .dot to investigate, the items are re-checked. Do Microsoft updates have anything to do with these items resetting? Other customizations like macros are there and unchanged... any ideas on how to make these two annoyances go away permanently? |
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