Horizontal ruler keeps disappearing

[lhall33950]

I have Word 2003. My horizontal ruler (located beneath the toolbars) keeps
disappearing from documents with no rhyme or reason. I got so frustrated that
I finally added the "View Ruler" command to my custom toolbar. Can you tell
me why this is happening and how to make it stop (without having to use the
view ruler command)?

 

[Cindy M.]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?bGhhbGwzMzk1MA==?=,

I have Word 2003. My horizontal ruler (located beneath the toolbars) keeps
disappearing from documents with no rhyme or reason. I got so frustrated that
I finally added the "View Ruler" command to my custom toolbar. Can you tell
me why this is happening and how to make it stop (without having to use the
view ruler command)?

My best guess would be you have some add-in tool installed that's doing this.
Any idea what kind of tools you may have installed, so that you can try shutting
them off, one-by-one?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[lhall33950]

Thank you for your reply. However, as I don't even know what an add-in tool
is I really don't think I've installed any and therefore doubt that's my
solution. Thanks for trying. Hopefully, someone else out there will recognize
my problem and respond.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I had this problem and finally learned that it was a result of having the
ruler turned off in Print Preview. Every time I switched to Print Preview
and back, the next window I opened didn't have the ruler displayed. Like
you, I had finally, in desperation, added the View Ruler button to a
toolbar, but I no longer need it now that I added the ruler back to Print
Preview (even though I don't need it there and it takes up valuable space).

 

[lhall33950]

Suzanne, I think I love you! Thank you so much. First, you're absolutely
right, I have no idea why anyone would need the ruler on the print preview
screen and I'm sure I unknowingly must have switched the toggle "off" some
time. But since I never use it I would NEVER have tho't to check there. You
have solved my problem. Now I just have to remember what the solution is the
next time I inadvertently turn the ruler off (I'm sure it'll happen). Thanks
again.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Thank Beth Melton for this one. I think she had to tell me this at least
three times before it finally "took."

 

[Beth Melton]

LOL Isn't there a discussion about retaining odd bits of info? Your ruler
display preference in Print Preview one of those odd things I seem to
remember. <g>

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