Sorry again for not being clear. I had checked the paths under the global
template window and did remove them from the Startup folders. Each was in a
different folder.

The reason I haven't written back about Graham Mayor's suggestions for
macros is that I wasn't sure that I followed the directions carefully for
the Return Settings macro I was supposed to run after deleting the registry
key, so I created a new macro, deleted the settings part of the key again,
and ran the macro. (There are also 2 auto open macros macros installed:
OpenOptions.AllowReadingMode = False and ActiveWindow.View.Type =
wdNormalView. It's too soon to tell if the settings have been retained
because it's usually all right for a while.

Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
Disabling add-ins in Tools | Templates and Add-ins merely unloads them for
the current session. Unless you actually remove them from the Word/Office
Startup folder (or uninstall them if they're COM add-ins), you won't have
solved the problem.


"Andrea" wrote in message
...
I forgot to add that I also deleted two add-ins from the registry and the
Global Templates and Addin window.

Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
This most likely indicates that a poorly written add-in is changing your
settings at startup.


"Andrea" wrote in message
...
A Google search indicated old posts in this newsgroup on permanently
disabling the Reading Layout option in Word 2003, but I'm unable to
bring them up through my newsreader, so I'm creating a different
thread. I've gone through the generally suggested solutions:
unchecking the Allow box in the General/Options tab, renaming
normal.dot and forcing a new one to be created, creating an AutoOpen
macro in Normal.dot (Options.AllowReadingMode = False). However, the
checkbox kept returning--and also some of the other Options settings
didn't stay saved (e.g., Automatically Create Drawing Canvas, Recently
Used File
List) and Save options (number minutes, etc.). Finally, I deleted the
Word Data Settings registry key, but nothing seems to keep my Options
settings stable. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm using Windows XP
Pro SP2. Windows and Office 2003 are completely updated.