Normal Template loses desired View settings (Word 2003)

[Guest]

I have configured my Normal template and general Word 2003 preferences to
display documents without the horizontal ruler and horizontal scrollbar
(application window size is set to be wide enough for standard A4 docs in
Normal view without clipping). When opening saved, or creating new,
documents, however, Word will often lose these desired view settings
seemingly without reason. I understand that documents created by other users
with their own settings may open differently (i.e. print layout view), but is
there any way to force Word to retain my desired settings for my own
documents? It's quite frustrating having to continuously disable the ruler
and/or horizontal scrollbar on random document openings.

If readers are wondering why this is important, I am working on an
ultra-portable laptop, and unless I am adjusting tabsets, the ruler merely
takes up valuable screen real estate otherwise best used for actual text.

Thank you for any advice.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Use the macros at the end of
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm, adapted to the settings
you want.

 

[Guest]

I was hoping this was not an application "feature" requiring macro
overloading, but so be it. Many thanks for the assistance and reference.