Take tick off one of General Options

[Jean Pereira]

Using Office XP SP3 and Windows XP SP3

How can I take (and keep) the tick off Tools, Options, General and Confirm
Conversion at open?

Every time I close Word and reopen, the option is ticked again.

Jean

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

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[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

When settings don't "take", that usually means there is a corrupted
Normal.dot or a corrupted registry entry.

This article describes how to troubleshoot the problem:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/ProblemsStartingWord.htm

 

[Graham Mayor]

Word 2003 has a bad habit of losing some of the settings stored in the sata
keay in the registry - of which this is one. You could rename the data key
to olddata and Word will build a new one, and if you are lucky the problem
won't return. Alternatively you could live with the fact that the settings
will corrupt sooner or later and force the setting with autoopen and autonew
macros in normal.dot - See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm
The command to include to force confirm conversion at open is

Options.ConfirmConversions = True


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[Beth Melton]

Using Office XP SP3 and Windows XP SP3

How can I take (and keep) the tick off Tools, Options, General and Confirm
Conversion at open?

Every time I close Word and reopen, the option is ticked again.

More than likely you've had more than one document open when you made this
change - that's what happens to me all of the time and it drives me nuts!
Definitely a drawback of the change to a Single Document Interface in which
each open document has a copy of the interface. When you modify an option
it's only applied to the current document (copy) -- it doesn't populate to
any other document that is open. When you exit Word the state of the options
in the last closed document are used to update the Registry (which is where
this option is stored). So if you close the document that is retaining the
option you change but still have another document open that doesn't reflect
the same change then all of the changes you made are discarded.

The solution to this is to make sure you have a single document window open,
try making the change again, then exit and restart Word and see if the
change 'sticks'.
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