Enable ability to permanently turn off annoying drawing canvas.

[Guest]

Everytime I insert a text box into a word document, a huge "drawing canvas"
automatically opens on my document. I always go into "tools", "options" and
then select the "general" tab where I uncheck the box that says,
"Automatically insert drawing canvas when inserting AutoShapes". And then,
of course, I click "OK". Yet that box continues to default to the checked
box, so I have to repeat the process everytime I want to use a text box.
There should be a way to permanently uncheck that box and have it stay off
until someone chooses to turn it back on.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

For most of us, disabling the drawing canvas *is* permanent. If your Word
settings are not being saved, it may be that the Word Data key in the
Registry is damaged; see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm for instructions on
rebuilding it. Alternatively, you may have an add-in loading after Word that
is changing the setting.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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Everytime I insert a text box into a word document, a huge "drawing canvas"
automatically opens on my document. I always go into "tools", "options" and
then select the "general" tab where I uncheck the box that says,
"Automatically insert drawing canvas when inserting AutoShapes". And then,
of course, I click "OK". Yet that box continues to default to the checked
box, so I have to repeat the process everytime I want to use a text box.
There should be a way to permanently uncheck that box and have it stay off
until someone chooses to turn it back on.

----------------
This post is a suggestion for Microsoft, and Microsoft responds to the
suggestions with the most votes. To vote for this suggestion, click the "I
Agree" button in the message pane. If you do not see the button, follow this
link to open the suggestion in the Microsoft Web-based Newsreader and then
click "I Agree" in the message pane.

http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...1f710e&dg=microsoft.public.word.docmanagement