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Change Default View to Normal?
This could be the effect of an add-in.
Suzanne thanks for your help. As I mentioned I have a Word 2003 document and it always opens up in "Print Layout" even if I change it to "Normal" and save it. Going to Templates and Add-In's there is a Global Template called rhd.dot, not sure what it is but can't seem to delete that as well. Could that be causing the problem? Very frustrating. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... This could be the effect of an add-in. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Al Franz" wrote in message ... Back to the original question my system does not save the document view type. Even if I put it in NORMAL and save it. When I close it and open it again it goes right back to Print Layout. Why is this happening?? Any ideas? |
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Change Default View to Normal?
That's the Remove Hidden Data add-in, I think. It's rather embarrassing to
Microsoft that one of the flaws in this add-in is that it dirties Normal.dot and requires you to resave it at exit. If you don't have "Prompt to save Normal template" checked on the Save tab of Tools | Options (and you should!), then you won't be getting a prompt to save Normal.dot, but Word will be saving it every time you quit Word. This is never a good idea. If you're not using the Remove Hidden Data tool, I'd advise uninstalling the add-in. I don't guarantee that it is the source of your problem, but it causes problems of its own. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Al Franz" wrote in message ... This could be the effect of an add-in. Suzanne thanks for your help. As I mentioned I have a Word 2003 document and it always opens up in "Print Layout" even if I change it to "Normal" and save it. Going to Templates and Add-In's there is a Global Template called rhd.dot, not sure what it is but can't seem to delete that as well. Could that be causing the problem? Very frustrating. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... This could be the effect of an add-in. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Al Franz" wrote in message ... Back to the original question my system does not save the document view type. Even if I put it in NORMAL and save it. When I close it and open it again it goes right back to Print Layout. Why is this happening?? Any ideas? |
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Change Default View to Normal?
"Prompt to save Normal template" checked on the Save tab of Tools |
Options Can't find these feature, what tab is it on, thought I scanned them all?? Also what directory should the normal.dot be in. Should it be in the User Templates or Startup folder as defined in File Locations. Still have weird results where everything is turning to Print View. I did uninstall the Remove Hidden Data Tool as you mentioned. Thanks again, Al "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... That's the Remove Hidden Data add-in, I think. It's rather embarrassing to Microsoft that one of the flaws in this add-in is that it dirties Normal.dot and requires you to resave it at exit. If you don't have "Prompt to save Normal template" checked on the Save tab of Tools | Options (and you should!), then you won't be getting a prompt to save Normal.dot, but Word will be saving it every time you quit Word. This is never a good idea. If you're not using the Remove Hidden Data tool, I'd advise uninstalling the add-in. I don't guarantee that it is the source of your problem, but it causes problems of its own. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Al Franz" wrote in message ... This could be the effect of an add-in. Suzanne thanks for your help. As I mentioned I have a Word 2003 document and it always opens up in "Print Layout" even if I change it to "Normal" and save it. Going to Templates and Add-In's there is a Global Template called rhd.dot, not sure what it is but can't seem to delete that as well. Could that be causing the problem? Very frustrating. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... This could be the effect of an add-in. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Al Franz" wrote in message ... Back to the original question my system does not save the document view type. Even if I put it in NORMAL and save it. When I close it and open it again it goes right back to Print Layout. Why is this happening?? Any ideas? |
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Change Default View to Normal?
As noted, it's on the Save tab. Normal.dot should be in the User Templates
folder. Note that in Windows XP, this is a Hidden folder, so you must set your Windows folder options to display hidden and system files in order to see/find it. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Al Franz" wrote in message ... "Prompt to save Normal template" checked on the Save tab of Tools | Options Can't find these feature, what tab is it on, thought I scanned them all?? Also what directory should the normal.dot be in. Should it be in the User Templates or Startup folder as defined in File Locations. Still have weird results where everything is turning to Print View. I did uninstall the Remove Hidden Data Tool as you mentioned. Thanks again, Al "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... That's the Remove Hidden Data add-in, I think. It's rather embarrassing to Microsoft that one of the flaws in this add-in is that it dirties Normal.dot and requires you to resave it at exit. If you don't have "Prompt to save Normal template" checked on the Save tab of Tools | Options (and you should!), then you won't be getting a prompt to save Normal.dot, but Word will be saving it every time you quit Word. This is never a good idea. If you're not using the Remove Hidden Data tool, I'd advise uninstalling the add-in. I don't guarantee that it is the source of your problem, but it causes problems of its own. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Al Franz" wrote in message ... This could be the effect of an add-in. Suzanne thanks for your help. As I mentioned I have a Word 2003 document and it always opens up in "Print Layout" even if I change it to "Normal" and save it. Going to Templates and Add-In's there is a Global Template called rhd.dot, not sure what it is but can't seem to delete that as well. Could that be causing the problem? Very frustrating. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... This could be the effect of an add-in. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Al Franz" wrote in message ... Back to the original question my system does not save the document view type. Even if I put it in NORMAL and save it. When I close it and open it again it goes right back to Print Layout. Why is this happening?? Any ideas? |
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Thanks Suzanne, well this is where I am now. Have no AddOn's installed,
uninstalled Remove Hidden Data tool and checked my options to ask to save Normal.dot. I deleted all my normal.dot files I could find and let it recreate a new one. If I change the view to NORMAL and quit Word and then restart Word the blank document that starts with Word is properly showing in NORMAL mode. But if I open a new blank document or any other existing document it switches to PRINT LAYOUT mode. Any ideas what could be causing this?? Any directories I should maybe clear out? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... As noted, it's on the Save tab. Normal.dot should be in the User Templates folder. Note that in Windows XP, this is a Hidden folder, so you must set your Windows folder options to display hidden and system files in order to see/find it. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Al Franz" wrote in message ... "Prompt to save Normal template" checked on the Save tab of Tools | Options Can't find these feature, what tab is it on, thought I scanned them all?? Also what directory should the normal.dot be in. Should it be in the User Templates or Startup folder as defined in File Locations. Still have weird results where everything is turning to Print View. I did uninstall the Remove Hidden Data Tool as you mentioned. Thanks again, Al "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... That's the Remove Hidden Data add-in, I think. It's rather embarrassing to Microsoft that one of the flaws in this add-in is that it dirties Normal.dot and requires you to resave it at exit. If you don't have "Prompt to save Normal template" checked on the Save tab of Tools | Options (and you should!), then you won't be getting a prompt to save Normal.dot, but Word will be saving it every time you quit Word. This is never a good idea. If you're not using the Remove Hidden Data tool, I'd advise uninstalling the add-in. I don't guarantee that it is the source of your problem, but it causes problems of its own. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Al Franz" wrote in message ... This could be the effect of an add-in. Suzanne thanks for your help. As I mentioned I have a Word 2003 document and it always opens up in "Print Layout" even if I change it to "Normal" and save it. Going to Templates and Add-In's there is a Global Template called rhd.dot, not sure what it is but can't seem to delete that as well. Could that be causing the problem? Very frustrating. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... This could be the effect of an add-in. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Al Franz" wrote in message ... Back to the original question my system does not save the document view type. Even if I put it in NORMAL and save it. When I close it and open it again it goes right back to Print Layout. Why is this happening?? Any ideas? |
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Change Default View to Normal?
Existing documents will open in the view in which they were saved, but I
can't imagine why you would get Document1 in Normal view and subsequent new blank docs in Print Layout. All I can say is that Word 2003 is extremely unreliable on this score (it also tends to lose track of other display settings, so I'm constantly having to restore my ruler). Many users have resorted to AutoExec or AutoOpen macros to guarantee a predictable environment. I'm sorry I can't help further, but perhaps Graham Mayor will come along with one of his helpful macros. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Al Franz" wrote in message ... Thanks Suzanne, well this is where I am now. Have no AddOn's installed, uninstalled Remove Hidden Data tool and checked my options to ask to save Normal.dot. I deleted all my normal.dot files I could find and let it recreate a new one. If I change the view to NORMAL and quit Word and then restart Word the blank document that starts with Word is properly showing in NORMAL mode. But if I open a new blank document or any other existing document it switches to PRINT LAYOUT mode. Any ideas what could be causing this?? Any directories I should maybe clear out? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... As noted, it's on the Save tab. Normal.dot should be in the User Templates folder. Note that in Windows XP, this is a Hidden folder, so you must set your Windows folder options to display hidden and system files in order to see/find it. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Al Franz" wrote in message ... "Prompt to save Normal template" checked on the Save tab of Tools | Options Can't find these feature, what tab is it on, thought I scanned them all?? Also what directory should the normal.dot be in. Should it be in the User Templates or Startup folder as defined in File Locations. Still have weird results where everything is turning to Print View. I did uninstall the Remove Hidden Data Tool as you mentioned. Thanks again, Al "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... That's the Remove Hidden Data add-in, I think. It's rather embarrassing to Microsoft that one of the flaws in this add-in is that it dirties Normal.dot and requires you to resave it at exit. If you don't have "Prompt to save Normal template" checked on the Save tab of Tools | Options (and you should!), then you won't be getting a prompt to save Normal.dot, but Word will be saving it every time you quit Word. This is never a good idea. If you're not using the Remove Hidden Data tool, I'd advise uninstalling the add-in. I don't guarantee that it is the source of your problem, but it causes problems of its own. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Al Franz" wrote in message ... This could be the effect of an add-in. Suzanne thanks for your help. As I mentioned I have a Word 2003 document and it always opens up in "Print Layout" even if I change it to "Normal" and save it. Going to Templates and Add-In's there is a Global Template called rhd.dot, not sure what it is but can't seem to delete that as well. Could that be causing the problem? Very frustrating. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... This could be the effect of an add-in. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Al Franz" wrote in message ... Back to the original question my system does not save the document view type. Even if I put it in NORMAL and save it. When I close it and open it again it goes right back to Print Layout. Why is this happening?? Any ideas? |
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Change Default View to Normal?
And here it is
Save the following in normal.dot See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm Sub Autonew() With ActiveWindow.View .Type = wdNormalView .Zoom.Percentage = 100 End With End Sub Sub AutoOpen() ActiveWindow.Caption = ActiveDocument.FullName With ActiveWindow.View .Type = wdNormalView .Zoom.Percentage = 100 End With End Sub -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Existing documents will open in the view in which they were saved, but I can't imagine why you would get Document1 in Normal view and subsequent new blank docs in Print Layout. All I can say is that Word 2003 is extremely unreliable on this score (it also tends to lose track of other display settings, so I'm constantly having to restore my ruler). Many users have resorted to AutoExec or AutoOpen macros to guarantee a predictable environment. I'm sorry I can't help further, but perhaps Graham Mayor will come along with one of his helpful macros. "Al Franz" wrote in message ... Thanks Suzanne, well this is where I am now. Have no AddOn's installed, uninstalled Remove Hidden Data tool and checked my options to ask to save Normal.dot. I deleted all my normal.dot files I could find and let it recreate a new one. If I change the view to NORMAL and quit Word and then restart Word the blank document that starts with Word is properly showing in NORMAL mode. But if I open a new blank document or any other existing document it switches to PRINT LAYOUT mode. Any ideas what could be causing this?? Any directories I should maybe clear out? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... As noted, it's on the Save tab. Normal.dot should be in the User Templates folder. Note that in Windows XP, this is a Hidden folder, so you must set your Windows folder options to display hidden and system files in order to see/find it. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Al Franz" wrote in message ... "Prompt to save Normal template" checked on the Save tab of Tools | Options Can't find these feature, what tab is it on, thought I scanned them all?? Also what directory should the normal.dot be in. Should it be in the User Templates or Startup folder as defined in File Locations. Still have weird results where everything is turning to Print View. I did uninstall the Remove Hidden Data Tool as you mentioned. Thanks again, Al "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... That's the Remove Hidden Data add-in, I think. It's rather embarrassing to Microsoft that one of the flaws in this add-in is that it dirties Normal.dot and requires you to resave it at exit. If you don't have "Prompt to save Normal template" checked on the Save tab of Tools | Options (and you should!), then you won't be getting a prompt to save Normal.dot, but Word will be saving it every time you quit Word. This is never a good idea. If you're not using the Remove Hidden Data tool, I'd advise uninstalling the add-in. I don't guarantee that it is the source of your problem, but it causes problems of its own. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Al Franz" wrote in message ... This could be the effect of an add-in. Suzanne thanks for your help. As I mentioned I have a Word 2003 document and it always opens up in "Print Layout" even if I change it to "Normal" and save it. Going to Templates and Add-In's there is a Global Template called rhd.dot, not sure what it is but can't seem to delete that as well. Could that be causing the problem? Very frustrating. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... This could be the effect of an add-in. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Al Franz" wrote in message ... Back to the original question my system does not save the document view type. Even if I put it in NORMAL and save it. When I close it and open it again it goes right back to Print Layout. Why is this happening?? Any ideas? |
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Graham,
Thanks for the help but I think my Word 2003 has major problems. New documents are automatically going to Print View mode only and they have a large header of 4.5 inches. Can't seem to decrease the header size at all it is locked even when using page setup for whole document and header edit. Miss Wordperfect reveal codes. Any recommendations other then to re-install Word 2003, would that possibly work? "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... And here it is Save the following in normal.dot See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm Sub Autonew() With ActiveWindow.View .Type = wdNormalView .Zoom.Percentage = 100 End With End Sub Sub AutoOpen() ActiveWindow.Caption = ActiveDocument.FullName With ActiveWindow.View .Type = wdNormalView .Zoom.Percentage = 100 End With End Sub -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Existing documents will open in the view in which they were saved, but I can't imagine why you would get Document1 in Normal view and subsequent new blank docs in Print Layout. All I can say is that Word 2003 is extremely unreliable on this score (it also tends to lose track of other display settings, so I'm constantly having to restore my ruler). Many users have resorted to AutoExec or AutoOpen macros to guarantee a predictable environment. I'm sorry I can't help further, but perhaps Graham Mayor will come along with one of his helpful macros. "Al Franz" wrote in message ... Thanks Suzanne, well this is where I am now. Have no AddOn's installed, uninstalled Remove Hidden Data tool and checked my options to ask to save Normal.dot. I deleted all my normal.dot files I could find and let it recreate a new one. If I change the view to NORMAL and quit Word and then restart Word the blank document that starts with Word is properly showing in NORMAL mode. But if I open a new blank document or any other existing document it switches to PRINT LAYOUT mode. Any ideas what could be causing this?? Any directories I should maybe clear out? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... As noted, it's on the Save tab. Normal.dot should be in the User Templates folder. Note that in Windows XP, this is a Hidden folder, so you must set your Windows folder options to display hidden and system files in order to see/find it. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Al Franz" wrote in message ... "Prompt to save Normal template" checked on the Save tab of Tools | Options Can't find these feature, what tab is it on, thought I scanned them all?? Also what directory should the normal.dot be in. Should it be in the User Templates or Startup folder as defined in File Locations. Still have weird results where everything is turning to Print View. I did uninstall the Remove Hidden Data Tool as you mentioned. Thanks again, Al "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... That's the Remove Hidden Data add-in, I think. It's rather embarrassing to Microsoft that one of the flaws in this add-in is that it dirties Normal.dot and requires you to resave it at exit. If you don't have "Prompt to save Normal template" checked on the Save tab of Tools | Options (and you should!), then you won't be getting a prompt to save Normal.dot, but Word will be saving it every time you quit Word. This is never a good idea. If you're not using the Remove Hidden Data tool, I'd advise uninstalling the add-in. I don't guarantee that it is the source of your problem, but it causes problems of its own. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Al Franz" wrote in message ... This could be the effect of an add-in. Suzanne thanks for your help. As I mentioned I have a Word 2003 document and it always opens up in "Print Layout" even if I change it to "Normal" and save it. Going to Templates and Add-In's there is a Global Template called rhd.dot, not sure what it is but can't seem to delete that as well. Could that be causing the problem? Very frustrating. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... This could be the effect of an add-in. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Al Franz" wrote in message ... Back to the original question my system does not save the document view type. Even if I put it in NORMAL and save it. When I close it and open it again it goes right back to Print Layout. Why is this happening?? Any ideas? |
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Change the vertical layout from Center to Top (Layout tab of Page Setup),
then click Default... and answer yes. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Al Franz" wrote in message ... Graham, Thanks for the help but I think my Word 2003 has major problems. New documents are automatically going to Print View mode only and they have a large header of 4.5 inches. Can't seem to decrease the header size at all it is locked even when using page setup for whole document and header edit. Miss Wordperfect reveal codes. Any recommendations other then to re-install Word 2003, would that possibly work? "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... And here it is Save the following in normal.dot See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm Sub Autonew() With ActiveWindow.View .Type = wdNormalView .Zoom.Percentage = 100 End With End Sub Sub AutoOpen() ActiveWindow.Caption = ActiveDocument.FullName With ActiveWindow.View .Type = wdNormalView .Zoom.Percentage = 100 End With End Sub -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Existing documents will open in the view in which they were saved, but I can't imagine why you would get Document1 in Normal view and subsequent new blank docs in Print Layout. All I can say is that Word 2003 is extremely unreliable on this score (it also tends to lose track of other display settings, so I'm constantly having to restore my ruler). Many users have resorted to AutoExec or AutoOpen macros to guarantee a predictable environment. I'm sorry I can't help further, but perhaps Graham Mayor will come along with one of his helpful macros. "Al Franz" wrote in message ... Thanks Suzanne, well this is where I am now. Have no AddOn's installed, uninstalled Remove Hidden Data tool and checked my options to ask to save Normal.dot. I deleted all my normal.dot files I could find and let it recreate a new one. If I change the view to NORMAL and quit Word and then restart Word the blank document that starts with Word is properly showing in NORMAL mode. But if I open a new blank document or any other existing document it switches to PRINT LAYOUT mode. Any ideas what could be causing this?? Any directories I should maybe clear out? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... As noted, it's on the Save tab. Normal.dot should be in the User Templates folder. Note that in Windows XP, this is a Hidden folder, so you must set your Windows folder options to display hidden and system files in order to see/find it. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Al Franz" wrote in message ... "Prompt to save Normal template" checked on the Save tab of Tools | Options Can't find these feature, what tab is it on, thought I scanned them all?? Also what directory should the normal.dot be in. Should it be in the User Templates or Startup folder as defined in File Locations. Still have weird results where everything is turning to Print View. I did uninstall the Remove Hidden Data Tool as you mentioned. Thanks again, Al "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... That's the Remove Hidden Data add-in, I think. It's rather embarrassing to Microsoft that one of the flaws in this add-in is that it dirties Normal.dot and requires you to resave it at exit. If you don't have "Prompt to save Normal template" checked on the Save tab of Tools | Options (and you should!), then you won't be getting a prompt to save Normal.dot, but Word will be saving it every time you quit Word. This is never a good idea. If you're not using the Remove Hidden Data tool, I'd advise uninstalling the add-in. I don't guarantee that it is the source of your problem, but it causes problems of its own. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Al Franz" wrote in message ... This could be the effect of an add-in. Suzanne thanks for your help. As I mentioned I have a Word 2003 document and it always opens up in "Print Layout" even if I change it to "Normal" and save it. Going to Templates and Add-In's there is a Global Template called rhd.dot, not sure what it is but can't seem to delete that as well. Could that be causing the problem? Very frustrating. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... This could be the effect of an add-in. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Al Franz" wrote in message ... Back to the original question my system does not save the document view type. Even if I put it in NORMAL and save it. When I close it and open it again it goes right back to Print Layout. Why is this happening?? Any ideas? |
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Suzanne has detailed the likely fix, but note that reinstalling Word rarely
fixes anything as it does not change the many user settings - see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...peningWord.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Al Franz wrote: Graham, Thanks for the help but I think my Word 2003 has major problems. New documents are automatically going to Print View mode only and they have a large header of 4.5 inches. Can't seem to decrease the header size at all it is locked even when using page setup for whole document and header edit. Miss Wordperfect reveal codes. Any recommendations other then to re-install Word 2003, would that possibly work? "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... And here it is Save the following in normal.dot See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm Sub Autonew() With ActiveWindow.View .Type = wdNormalView .Zoom.Percentage = 100 End With End Sub Sub AutoOpen() ActiveWindow.Caption = ActiveDocument.FullName With ActiveWindow.View .Type = wdNormalView .Zoom.Percentage = 100 End With End Sub -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: Existing documents will open in the view in which they were saved, but I can't imagine why you would get Document1 in Normal view and subsequent new blank docs in Print Layout. All I can say is that Word 2003 is extremely unreliable on this score (it also tends to lose track of other display settings, so I'm constantly having to restore my ruler). Many users have resorted to AutoExec or AutoOpen macros to guarantee a predictable environment. I'm sorry I can't help further, but perhaps Graham Mayor will come along with one of his helpful macros. "Al Franz" wrote in message ... Thanks Suzanne, well this is where I am now. Have no AddOn's installed, uninstalled Remove Hidden Data tool and checked my options to ask to save Normal.dot. I deleted all my normal.dot files I could find and let it recreate a new one. If I change the view to NORMAL and quit Word and then restart Word the blank document that starts with Word is properly showing in NORMAL mode. But if I open a new blank document or any other existing document it switches to PRINT LAYOUT mode. Any ideas what could be causing this?? Any directories I should maybe clear out? "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... As noted, it's on the Save tab. Normal.dot should be in the User Templates folder. Note that in Windows XP, this is a Hidden folder, so you must set your Windows folder options to display hidden and system files in order to see/find it. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Al Franz" wrote in message ... "Prompt to save Normal template" checked on the Save tab of Tools | Options Can't find these feature, what tab is it on, thought I scanned them all?? Also what directory should the normal.dot be in. Should it be in the User Templates or Startup folder as defined in File Locations. Still have weird results where everything is turning to Print View. I did uninstall the Remove Hidden Data Tool as you mentioned. Thanks again, Al "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... That's the Remove Hidden Data add-in, I think. It's rather embarrassing to Microsoft that one of the flaws in this add-in is that it dirties Normal.dot and requires you to resave it at exit. If you don't have "Prompt to save Normal template" checked on the Save tab of Tools | Options (and you should!), then you won't be getting a prompt to save Normal.dot, but Word will be saving it every time you quit Word. This is never a good idea. If you're not using the Remove Hidden Data tool, I'd advise uninstalling the add-in. I don't guarantee that it is the source of your problem, but it causes problems of its own. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Al Franz" wrote in message ... This could be the effect of an add-in. Suzanne thanks for your help. As I mentioned I have a Word 2003 document and it always opens up in "Print Layout" even if I change it to "Normal" and save it. Going to Templates and Add-In's there is a Global Template called rhd.dot, not sure what it is but can't seem to delete that as well. Could that be causing the problem? Very frustrating. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... This could be the effect of an add-in. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Al Franz" wrote in message ... Back to the original question my system does not save the document view type. Even if I put it in NORMAL and save it. When I close it and open it again it goes right back to Print Layout. Why is this happening?? Any ideas? |
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