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Take tick off one of General Options
Using Office XP SP3 and Windows XP SP3
How can I take (and keep) the tick off Tools, Options, General and Confirm Conversion at open? Every time I close Word and reopen, the option is ticked again. Jean |
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-- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Jean Pereira" wrote in message ... Using Office XP SP3 and Windows XP SP3 How can I take (and keep) the tick off Tools, Options, General and Confirm Conversion at open? Every time I close Word and reopen, the option is ticked again. Jean |
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When settings don't "take", that usually means there is a corrupted
Normal.dot or a corrupted registry entry. This article describes how to troubleshoot the problem: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...artingWord.htm -- Herb Tyson MS MVP Author of the Word 2007 Bible Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com Web: http://www.herbtyson.com "Jean Pereira" wrote in message ... Using Office XP SP3 and Windows XP SP3 How can I take (and keep) the tick off Tools, Options, General and Confirm Conversion at open? Every time I close Word and reopen, the option is ticked again. Jean |
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Word 2003 has a bad habit of losing some of the settings stored in the sata
keay in the registry - of which this is one. You could rename the data key to olddata and Word will build a new one, and if you are lucky the problem won't return. Alternatively you could live with the fact that the settings will corrupt sooner or later and force the setting with autoopen and autonew macros in normal.dot - See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm The command to include to force confirm conversion at open is Options.ConfirmConversions = True -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jean Pereira wrote: Using Office XP SP3 and Windows XP SP3 How can I take (and keep) the tick off Tools, Options, General and Confirm Conversion at open? Every time I close Word and reopen, the option is ticked again. Jean |
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"Jean Pereira" wrote in message
... Using Office XP SP3 and Windows XP SP3 How can I take (and keep) the tick off Tools, Options, General and Confirm Conversion at open? Every time I close Word and reopen, the option is ticked again. More than likely you've had more than one document open when you made this change - that's what happens to me all of the time and it drives me nuts! Definitely a drawback of the change to a Single Document Interface in which each open document has a copy of the interface. When you modify an option it's only applied to the current document (copy) -- it doesn't populate to any other document that is open. When you exit Word the state of the options in the last closed document are used to update the Registry (which is where this option is stored). So if you close the document that is retaining the option you change but still have another document open that doesn't reflect the same change then all of the changes you made are discarded. The solution to this is to make sure you have a single document window open, try making the change again, then exit and restart Word and see if the change 'sticks'. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Beth Melton Microsoft Office MVP https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Melton What is a Microsoft MVP? http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpfaqs Guides for the Office 2007 Interface: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/tr...295841033.aspx |
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