File-Open with Detail i.s.o. Preview View

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F.H. van Zelm

Hi guys

(Michael and Steve; still interested?)

Yes, I am stubborn! Because I dislike MS's setting and because my dumped
laptop with Win 2K Pro and Office XP
behaves properly after applying a tweak, read somewhere on Internet. Where
.... I don't remember. It was a 'by the
way' on a site about Excel registry tricks, perhaps increasing the undo
stack.

I searched my Registry and found key
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\11.0\Common\Open Find\Microsoft
PowerPoint\Settings\Openen\View
(I'm not sure about 'Openen' or 'Open' because I use the Multilingual Office
in Dutch)
with value and data
Preview view Data = 04 16 00 17 ........
Detail view Data = 04 16 00 37 ........
and e.g. Properties is 04 16 00 27 ........

So far so good. But ... on my new computer PowerPoint overrides my manual
registry setting. Who knows what
to do?

(A small step for man, a giant leap for PPt users ;-) )

Mvg, Frans
 
Hi guys

(Michael and Steve; still interested?)

Sure!

Question: when you made these settings in the registry, was Powerpoint (or any
other Office program) running? If so, try again with no programs running.
 
What about trying to boot your computer in Safe Mode? Restart your PC and
tap F8 as it restarts. A menu should come up where you will be given the
option to enter "selected safe mode", "last known good configuration". I
think that will read your last working registers.

Michael
 
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