Print Layout View display

[Jim Wood]

I use the Print Layout View mode for composing as it seems more WYSIWYG,
especially when drawings, photos, etc. are pulled into the document.

Headers and footers have always been visible until just recently. Now I
have to click View/Headers and Footers to bring them up, and then, of course,
click on the text of the document to fade the headers back to purple and show
my text in black.

Why do documents open this way all of a sudden? Unnder Tools/Options/View I
have 'White space between pages' checked to show, but of course this doesn't
happen until I do the View/Headers and Footers.

How can I restore the header/footer view as default?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Checking the "white space" option in Tools | Options should do it. If your
Options settings are not being saved, post back for more help.

 

[Jim Wood]

Well, Suzanne,

To my rescue once again. The Tools/Options/View preferences certainly
stay with the document, but when Word is closed and then re-opened, the
chosen options that apply to a 'New' .doc are not those selected before
closing the last one. Is there a way to tell Word that what options are
selected at some point are the ones desired as defaults? In addition to
"White space between pages," the "Embed TrueType fonts" is another that has
to be selected each time a new document is created.

Thanks, and Merry Christmas,

Jim Wood
Brea, CA

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Some settings (such as font embedding) are document-specific. If you want
them enabled for all new documents, you'll have to change them in
Normal.dot. In other cases, if global settings are not being saved, it could
indicate a Registry glitch (see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/MissingMenusEtc.htm). In some cases, if
changes that are made in Normal.dot are not being saved, it is due to Adobe
Acrobat 7 (see the last section of
http://www.gmayor.com/lose_that_adobe_acrobat_toolbar.htm).