Customising the default settings for Auto-format and page view.

[Guest]

I am using Word 2003 and recently my Word package has resorted to
autoformatting lists and displaying the page (print layout) at 150% rather
than the settings I originally had. (It was quite happy for over a year!). I
have tried altering the settings in Tools/Autocorrect Options to what I want
and the zoom setting to page width, but every time I launch the software I
lose the customised settings. Can anyone solve this problem for me?

Many thanks,

 

[Cindy M.]

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I am using Word 2003 and recently my Word package has resorted to
autoformatting lists and displaying the page (print layout) at 150% rather
than the settings I originally had. (It was quite happy for over a year!). I
have tried altering the settings in Tools/Autocorrect Options to what I want
and the zoom setting to page width, but every time I launch the software I
lose the customised settings. Can anyone solve this problem for me?

If you hold down CTRL to start Word in Safe Mode, are you back to the
installation default settings? (Or at least no longer at 150% zoom.)

It sounds as if you have some kind of "tool" (Add-in) that's changing these
settings on you. Installed anything, recently?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Guest]

Hi Cindy,
Just tried starting Word in 'Safe' mode... this has reset to the default
language (US English), but has kept my customized toolbars and a new document
is viewed at 150%. Yesterday after posting my original message I deleted the
'normal' template and then recreated it with my customized settings. This
worked for several restarts of the software, but when I came to launch the
software after the computer had been shut down and restarted the original
problem re-occurred! I have not installed any software recently (as far as I
know!), but I have downloaded some templates from the MS Office site to get
some ideas for a document I'm currently working on, however I have opened
each of these only once and am now using a template I have created myself
from scratch!

Any thoughts would be appreciated!

Tom F

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It's not entirely clear what you're saying, but if you're saying that you
created Normal.dot from scratch, be aware that you cannot do this. Only Word
can create a Normal.dot. Also, if you were seeing customized toolbars, then
you were not really starting in Safe Mode, which suppresses all such
customizations. To start in Office Safe Mode, press Ctrl while you start
Word. You will be asked if you want to run in Office Safe Mode, and you have
to answer yes. A similar effect (though not exactly the same) can be
achieved by starting Word from this command line: Start | Run: winword /a

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

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[Guest]

Hi Suzanne,

No Word created normal.dot to which I then customized to my preferences. I
had made a mistake about the customised toolbars appearing in 'safe' mode as
mine are not too different to the default, but is the default print layout
view 150%?
Either way the safe mode issue does not solve the fact that after I have
altered the behaviour of auto-format through Tools/Autocorrect Options... it
reverts back to the default settings after a reboot and also the default view
revert back to 150% (print layout) whereas I want page width (print layout).
Any thoughts?
Tom F

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Well, you can look at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/SaveViewAndZoom.htm,
but recent versions of Word seem to have a mind of their own in this regard,
and sometimes it's necessary to compel them with AutoExec, AutoNew, and/or
AutoOpen macros. Failure to save options is another issue, since they are
not, for the most part, stored in Normal.dot. See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm for information on
how to rebuild a damaged Registry key. But often the incorrect settings
result from an add-in, and the only way to avoid that (unless you can
contact the add-in publisher and get it fixed) is to stop using the add-in.

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

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[Cindy M.]

Hi Tom,

Just tried starting Word in 'Safe' mode... this has reset to the default
language (US English), but has kept my customized toolbars and a new document
is viewed at 150%. Yesterday after posting my original message I deleted the
'normal' template and then recreated it with my customized settings. This
worked for several restarts of the software, but when I came to launch the
software after the computer had been shut down and restarted the original
problem re-occurred! I have not installed any software recently (as far as I
know!), but I have downloaded some templates from the MS Office site to get
some ideas for a document I'm currently working on, however I have opened
each of these only once and am now using a template I have created myself
from scratch!

Hmmm. After re-booting Windows, eh?

I guess the next thing I'd do is check my system for the Normal.dot file. If it
turns up more than one it's possible Word is saving your customizations in one
copy and loading them from another.

I'd also try recreating the Data key in the Registry, as Suzanne mentions.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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