Default Measurement Units Do Not "Take"

[Guest]

Running Word 2003 SP2 on XPPro. My rulers have apparently decided to display
in units of "characters" even though this is not a choice for units and the
default font is NOT a fixed font. Paragraph formatting is in characters also.

I tried closing Word and deleting normal.dot and doing a "detect and
repair." Neither fixed the problem. Another wrinkle is that, if I tell Word
to "check for updates," if finds three "required" updates for Word 2000!! - I
am running 2003 SP2.

How do I fix this?

 

[Guest]

See: http://www.gmayor.com/Character_Units.htm

 

[Guest]

THANKS YOU!!

I was going nuts and that fixed it.

 

[Guest]

Glad I could help you!
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Carol A. Bratt, MCP

THANKS YOU!!

I was going nuts and that fixed it.

 

[Guest]

Carol, have tried everything you suggested on your page, but it didn't work.
I've worked OK, the problem just appeared out of nowhere yesterday. I'm
having to write docs on pub.

 

[Graham Mayor]

Did you specifically do this bit?:-

Press ALT+F11. This opens the macro editor. Press CTRL+G (View > Immediate
Window). This provides a 'chat' window in which you can type vba code to be
executed immediately. In that window, type

Options.UseCharacterUnit =False

and press the enter key. This turns off character units. If it still doesn't
work rename the settings sub key of the Word data key in the registry to
oldsettings then restart Word and try it again.
http://www.gmayor.com/my_toolbars_are_missing.htm shows how to find the data
key.

If necessary, see also
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm then
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProbsOpeningWord.htm

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I can't see how having character units displayed would force Pollymary54 to
use Publisher for documents. I think she has a different problem and thought
she was replying to a different thread.

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

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[Graham Mayor]

You could be right, but there's no accounting for the weirdness of approach
of some users when faced with a problem

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