Word does not remember Tools/Options/Formatting Marks preferences

[Guest]

Since I reinstalled Win XP recently my Office 2000 seems unable to remember
that I want to always display all formatting marks in MS Word. What do I need
to do to fix this?
My version info:
MS Wod 2000 (9.0.6926 SP-3)

 

[Graham Mayor]

Failure to save changes to tools > options is often an indication of a minor
corruption in the Word data key in the registry - see
http://www.gmayor.com/my_toolbars_are_missing.htm. Close Word, rename the
key (eg OldData) and see if you can then make changes. Note that removal of
the key resets a number of settings to defaults.

You could also force the issue with a line in each of an autoopen and an
autonew macro in normal.dot eg

ActiveWindow.View.ShowFieldCodes = True

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

 

[Guest]

That fixed it and many thanks. Is ther any known reason that this occurred?

 

[Graham Mayor]

It's just one of those minor idiosyncracies of the software.

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[Dan Freeman]

It's a *FEATURE*! <g>

Dan

It's just one of those minor idiosyncracies of the software.