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Using Word 2003 and this has always been a problem on my system. At
random, my vertical ruler decides not to show up on random douments. I
can open the same document 3-4 times with the vertical ruler showing,
not make any changes, and suddenly the vertical ruler is not showing
the next time the document opens or another document is opened. When
this happens, I check the ToolOptions View and the setting for the
Vertical ruler is always checked.

I do not know if this is a ruler problem or a "View" problem. I just
thought of that... so have not checked to see if the View is changing
from "Print Layout" to "Normal" which would also cause the vertical
ruler to disppear.

Anyway, no matter what document I open I ALWAYS want the vertical ruler
to display. Is there an autohide setting, or something else I am
missing???

I have updated the office suite with latest patches.

Any ideas or similar situation?

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

There *is* an auto hide setting, but it's doubtful that's your problem here
(if you have rulers displayed and check the box for "Provide feedback with
animation" on the General tab of Tools | Options, the ruler will hide until
you mouse over the edge of the screen). More likely you're just another
victim of Word 2003's capriciousness wrt view options. This seems to be
related to the settings in effect in a given window. If you open a window
and hide the ruler (or display a toolbar or hide nonprinting characters),
close that document, and open another one, the second document is more than
likely to retain the settings of the window you just closed.

To guarantee reliable display of the ruler, you will need AutoNew and
AutoOpen macros, which I can't provide, but here are the macros Graham Mayor
has previously posted:

Sub AutoNew()
ActiveWindow.ActivePane.DisplayRulers = True
ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.ShowAll = False
ActiveWindow.DisplayHorizontalScrollBar = True
ActiveWindow.DisplayVerticalScrollBar = True
With ActiveWindow.View
.Type = wdPrintView
.Zoom.Percentage = 100
.FieldShading = wdFieldShadingWhenSelected
.ShowFieldCodes = False
.DisplayPageBoundaries = True
End With
CommandBars("Reviewing").Visible = False
CommandBars("Drawing").Visible = False
CommandBars("Forms").Visible = False
End Sub

Sub AutoOpen()
ActiveWindow.Caption = ActiveDocument.FullName
ActiveWindow.ActivePane.DisplayRulers = True
ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.ShowAll = False
ActiveWindow.DisplayHorizontalScrollBar = True
ActiveWindow.DisplayVerticalScrollBar = True
With ActiveWindow.View
.Type = wdPrintView
.Zoom.Percentage = 100
.FieldShading = wdFieldShadingWhenSelected
.ShowFieldCodes = False
.DisplayPageBoundaries = True
End With
End Sub

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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Using Word 2003 and this has always been a problem on my system. At
random, my vertical ruler decides not to show up on random douments. I
can open the same document 3-4 times with the vertical ruler showing,
not make any changes, and suddenly the vertical ruler is not showing
the next time the document opens or another document is opened. When
this happens, I check the ToolOptions View and the setting for the
Vertical ruler is always checked.

I do not know if this is a ruler problem or a "View" problem. I just
thought of that... so have not checked to see if the View is changing
from "Print Layout" to "Normal" which would also cause the vertical
ruler to disppear.

Anyway, no matter what document I open I ALWAYS want the vertical ruler
to display. Is there an autohide setting, or something else I am
missing???

I have updated the office suite with latest patches.

Any ideas or similar situation?