[ralft]

Since I reinstalled Win XP recently my Office 2000 seems unable to remember
that I want to always display all formatting marks in MS Word. What do I need
to do to fix this?
My version info:
MS Wod 2000 (9.0.6926 SP-3)

[Graham Mayor]

Failure to save changes to tools options is often an indication of a minor
corruption in the Word data key in the registry - see
http://www.gmayor.com/my_toolbars_are_missing.htm. Close Word, rename the
key (eg OldData) and see if you can then make changes. Note that removal of
the key resets a number of settings to defaults.

You could also force the issue with a line in each of an autoopen and an
autonew macro in normal.dot eg

ActiveWindow.View.ShowFieldCodes = True

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

ralft wrote:
Since I reinstalled Win XP recently my Office 2000 seems unable to
remember that I want to always display all formatting marks in MS
Word. What do I need to do to fix this?
My version info:
MS Wod 2000 (9.0.6926 SP-3)

[ralft]

That fixed it and many thanks. Is ther any known reason that this occurred?

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Failure to save changes to tools options is often an indication of a minor
corruption in the Word data key in the registry - see
http://www.gmayor.com/my_toolbars_are_missing.htm. Close Word, rename the
key (eg OldData) and see if you can then make changes. Note that removal of
the key resets a number of settings to defaults.

You could also force the issue with a line in each of an autoopen and an
autonew macro in normal.dot eg

ActiveWindow.View.ShowFieldCodes = True

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

ralft wrote:
Since I reinstalled Win XP recently my Office 2000 seems unable to
remember that I want to always display all formatting marks in MS
Word. What do I need to do to fix this?
My version info:
MS Wod 2000 (9.0.6926 SP-3)

[Graham Mayor]

It's just one of those minor idiosyncracies of the software.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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


ralft wrote:
That fixed it and many thanks. Is ther any known reason that this
occurred?

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Failure to save changes to tools options is often an indication of
a minor corruption in the Word data key in the registry - see
http://www.gmayor.com/my_toolbars_are_missing.htm. Close Word,
rename the key (eg OldData) and see if you can then make changes.
Note that removal of the key resets a number of settings to defaults.

You could also force the issue with a line in each of an autoopen
and an autonew macro in normal.dot eg

ActiveWindow.View.ShowFieldCodes = True

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

ralft wrote:
Since I reinstalled Win XP recently my Office 2000 seems unable to
remember that I want to always display all formatting marks in MS
Word. What do I need to do to fix this?
My version info:
MS Wod 2000 (9.0.6926 SP-3)

[Dan Freeman]

It's a *FEATURE*! g

Dan

Graham Mayor wrote:
It's just one of those minor idiosyncracies of the software.


ralft wrote:
That fixed it and many thanks. Is ther any known reason that this
occurred?

"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Failure to save changes to tools options is often an indication of
a minor corruption in the Word data key in the registry - see
http://www.gmayor.com/my_toolbars_are_missing.htm. Close Word,
rename the key (eg OldData) and see if you can then make changes.
Note that removal of the key resets a number of settings to
defaults.

You could also force the issue with a line in each of an autoopen
and an autonew macro in normal.dot eg

ActiveWindow.View.ShowFieldCodes = True

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

ralft wrote:
Since I reinstalled Win XP recently my Office 2000 seems unable to
remember that I want to always display all formatting marks in MS
Word. What do I need to do to fix this?
My version info:
MS Wod 2000 (9.0.6926 SP-3)