Document somehow lost it's highlighting

[Penny]

I've been feverishly working on a document trying to clean out all the
inactive employees it's 7 pages long! It took me a VERY long time to
highlight the people whose codes need to be deactivated. Yesterday I was
plugging away at it and all my highlighting was there.

Today I open it and it's all GONE!!!!! Please tell me is there a way to get
all my work back? How does this happen?

On other occasions I have noticed that opening a document that someone sends
to me somehow changes my options and I have to go and change them back. Is
there a way to preserve these settings so they don't get changed just because
someone else has different settings? I have seen this time and time again
and it's always been annoying, but if this has anything to do with me losing
all my highlighting in the document I've spent so much time on I REALLY want
to find out how to preserve my settings.

I'm using Word 2003.

Settings I've noticed that I've had to change are my scroll bar disappears
and things of that nature.

 

[CyberTaz]

As to the Highlighting, try Tools> Options> View to be certain there is a
check in the Highlight box. Hopefully that's the problem.

As to the settings in general: Some of Word's Options are document-specific,
so there's very little - if anything - you can do. When the doc is saved
those settings get saved with it & are in effect the next time the doc is
opened regardless of what your local settings are. Those that are not
document-specific, however, should not in any way alter your Options
settings because they don't travel with the document. Scroll Bars in 2003
[IIRC - don't have it handy to test, but am pretty certain] aren't document
specific, so if your observation is accurate there must be something else at
work behind the scenes.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Penny]

The highlight was specific to this document though. Luckily I was able to go
into the tools/options and check highlight and it brought it right back.

I don't know how that got turned off for this document, it should have
maintained the settings I had when I last saved it.

Thanks. Apparently highlighting isn't one of the options specific to the
document???

As to the Highlighting, try Tools> Options> View to be certain there is a
check in the Highlight box. Hopefully that's the problem.

As to the settings in general: Some of Word's Options are document-specific,
so there's very little - if anything - you can do. When the doc is saved
those settings get saved with it & are in effect the next time the doc is
opened regardless of what your local settings are. Those that are not
document-specific, however, should not in any way alter your Options
settings because they don't travel with the document. Scroll Bars in 2003
[IIRC - don't have it handy to test, but am pretty certain] aren't document
specific, so if your observation is accurate there must be something else at
work behind the scenes.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

I've been feverishly working on a document trying to clean out all the
inactive employees it's 7 pages long! It took me a VERY long time to
highlight the people whose codes need to be deactivated. Yesterday I was
plugging away at it and all my highlighting was there.

Today I open it and it's all GONE!!!!! Please tell me is there a way to get
all my work back? How does this happen?

On other occasions I have noticed that opening a document that someone sends
to me somehow changes my options and I have to go and change them back. Is
there a way to preserve these settings so they don't get changed just because
someone else has different settings? I have seen this time and time again
and it's always been annoying, but if this has anything to do with me losing
all my highlighting in the document I've spent so much time on I REALLY want
to find out how to preserve my settings.

I'm using Word 2003.

Settings I've noticed that I've had to change are my scroll bar disappears
and things of that nature.