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Word 'Options' are no options at all
Every time I set an 'option' in Word - Do NOT create drawing space, DO NOT
select the entire word, DO NOT glom onto a grid - they work for about 10 minutes and then revert to MicroDictator's pre-determined mandates - which absolutely do not work for me. I have ripped out every cc of normal.dot, re-installed Word (and XP about 10 times), saved normal.dot locked and bolted -- to no avail. Since I have some $600 bucks invested In MicroMyWay just to write a letter, one might think I should be able to write it any way I want. Am I missing the obvious (L!nux?) or is there some way to actually choose and keep options in Word. (And Power Point and etc.) Help, Please!! |
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Word 'Options' are no options at all
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Yarlq wrote: Every time I set an 'option' in Word - Do NOT create drawing space, DO NOT select the entire word, DO NOT glom onto a grid - they work for about 10 minutes and then revert to MicroDictator's pre-determined mandates - which absolutely do not work for me. I have ripped out every cc of normal.dot, re-installed Word (and XP about 10 times), saved normal.dot locked and bolted -- to no avail. Since I have some $600 bucks invested In MicroMyWay just to write a letter, one might think I should be able to write it any way I want. Am I missing the obvious (L!nux?) or is there some way to actually choose and keep options in Word. (And Power Point and etc.) Help, Please!! |
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Word 'Options' are no options at all
You say your settings "work for about 10 minutes." Are you working
continuously in Word during this time, or are you closing Word and restarting it each time you open or start a document? If the former, then I am at a loss to suggest a cause. If the latter, it's possible your options are not being saved. If so, it could be that there is a damaged Registry key; see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm. If it's not a Registry issue, it could be that an add-in is changing your settings. It can be very challenging just to identify what add-ins are being loaded when you start Word, much less which one specifically is causing the problem, but see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customizat...sInstalled.htm for a start. Do note that reinstalling Word/Office will not help because it doesn't overwrite Normal.dot or the Registry. Renaming Normal.dot will help with many problems, but not this one, which is almost certainly caused by a Registry issue or an add-in. The third (really dire) possibility, if you're on a corporate network, is that a login script is changing your settings at startup. If that's the case, you'll have to deal with the company IT people. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Yarlq" wrote in message ... Every time I set an 'option' in Word - Do NOT create drawing space, DO NOT select the entire word, DO NOT glom onto a grid - they work for about 10 minutes and then revert to MicroDictator's pre-determined mandates - which absolutely do not work for me. I have ripped out every cc of normal.dot, re-installed Word (and XP about 10 times), saved normal.dot locked and bolted -- to no avail. Since I have some $600 bucks invested In MicroMyWay just to write a letter , one might think I should be able to write it any way I want. Am I missing the obvious (L!nux?) or is there some way to actually choose and keep options in Word. (And Power Point and etc.) Help, Please!! |
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