It sounds as if your settings are not being saved. This could be because the
Word Data key in the Registry is corrupt; to rebuild it, see the
instructions in
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm. That is the "easy"
solution.
The other two possibilities are more problematic:
1. You have an add-in installed that is changing those settings on startup.
It may require considerable trial and error to figure out which add-in is
causing the problem, and then you have to decide whether you can live
without it or not. And that is the choice because even an AutoExec macro to
make the desired Track Changes settings will not help since the add-ins are
loaded *after* Normal.dot.
2. If you're on a network, there may be a login script that resets all your
settings to a corporate default. There's not much way around this, either,
except to persuade the network admin to change the settings globally.
--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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