Tools Options Settings Not Saving

[Melanie Strom]

I have been trying to uncheck the box to adjust sentence and word spacing
automatically in Tools, Options, Edit tab, cut and paste options settings.
Each time I exit and reopen my setting is not retained. I have tried the
Shift+File+Save All trick and cannot add the Save My Settings Wizard. Is
there anything else I can try?

 

[Graham Mayor]

The options are stored in the Word Data key in the registry (see
http://www.gmayor.com/my_toolbars_are_missing.htm for details on how to
access that key) and Word 2003 particularly has a bad habit of failing to
retain some personalisations. You could try renaming the key (to OldData)
and Word will build a new default one and it may fix your problem, but the
chances are that it will recur. An alternative solution is to set the
required settings for each document in autonew and autopen macros in
normal.dot e.g.

With Options
.PasteAdjustWordSpacing = True
.PasteAdjustParagraphSpacing = False
.PasteAdjustTableFormatting = True
.PasteSmartStyleBehavior = True
.PasteMergeFromPPT = True
.PasteMergeFromXL = False
.PasteMergeLists = True
End With

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

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[Melanie Strom]

Creating an AutoNew macro in my template with the proper settings worked. I
couldn't create it in my Normal.dot because we have macros that run that I
couldn't get access to change. Thank you!

 

[Graham Mayor]

Normal.dot is an individual user file. If your IT support is using it in
some other way or is preventing you from making changes to it, they are
simply building in unneccessary problems.

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