Reading Layout View

There are three automacros listed on the web page:
AutoNew (which runs when a new document is created from the template)
AutoOpen (which runs when an existing document is opened)
AutoExec (which runs when Word is started).
and an associated macro CodesOff which is run from the AutoExec macro after
a short delay.

All the macros end with 'End Sub'. None of them ends with 'End With'?

You can record all of the Tools Options in a macro if you want, but usually
it is only a handful of settings that cause problems. The ones that bother
me are included in the sample macros, but you can supplement these and/or
replace them as necessary. Recording all the settings will give you the
syntax required - however as you have a specific issue let's get back to
basics.

To stop the reading layout you need the line:

Options.AllowReadingMode = False

in a macro called AutoOpen
ie at its simplest

Sub AutoOpen()
Options.AllowReadingMode = False
End Sub

If for some reason ReadingLayout mode activates for new documents, then you
also need that line in an AutoNew macro - again at its simplest

Sub AutoNew()
Options.AllowReadingMode = False
End Sub

Options are document related so AutoExec which runs before the document is
opened, will not be required.

If you have created some automacros, open the VBA editor (Alt+F11) and
replace them with the two above by copying and pasting from this message.

If you have other issues such as those documented on the web page then you
can add the relevant lines of code. (The text in green explains what the
code does). For example if you were to use the three macros in full, then
the line
Options.AllowReadingMode = True
could be inserted immediately before the EndSub statements in each of
AutoNew and AutoOpen.

If this is still not clear, contact me via my web site link with more
details.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Andrea wrote:
I _have_ looked at the link below--many times--as I wrote in a
previous post. Thank you for supplying the link, but it's not that
clear to someone as unfamiliar with macros as I am, and the VBA help
wasn't very detailed. Here are my questions. (1) Can the information
on each of the Options tabs be saved in an auto macro? In other
words, should I contain the macro to just some of the tabs? I notice
that in your samples, you're only selecting some options. (2) In your
sample of an AutoNew macro, you "End with" a line of code, whereas
your other auto macros just say "End with," then "End Sub." I don't
know what these terms mean; is the AutoNew macro supposed to end
differently? (3) Could you explain your sample AutoExec macro? I
don't understand what it's supposed to do, specifically "forces off
the display of formatting commands." Displayed where? I understand
that the AutoExec macro is used when Word is started or when a global
template is loaded, but I don't understand why the contents of this
macro aren't exactly the same as the AutoOpen or AutoNew. Because I
wasn't very grounded in macro terminology, I recorded a macro (not an
auto macro) as I opened each of the Options tabs. Then I copied all
of it to another AutoOpen and an AutoNew macro. (I did this because I
couldn't figure out if there was a way to directly record an auto
macro.) I don't know if this is adequate or converely, too much
copying. I still haven't created an AutoExec maco, but I will once I
understand what I'm doing. Thanks for your help.
Graham Mayor wrote:
See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm


Andrea wrote:
I was hoping that this was fixed, but the Options settings,
including disabling Reading Layout View, are not holding. I now
have 2 auto open macros macros installed:
OpenOptions.AllowReadingMode = False and ActiveWindow.View.Type =
wdNormalView. I've read the link that you suggest (many times), but
I'm not familiar enough with macros to know exactly how to go about
creating an autonew or autoexec macro. Do I just name the macro
(E.g., for autonew) and then start recording as I would for a
non-auto macro?
Graham Mayor wrote:
It is a fact of life that some users find some settings of the
Options volatile, exacerbated by the addition of poorly written
add-ins that write to the registry. The only sure solution is to
force the settings using auto macros. You may need a combination of
autoopen
autonew
and
autoexec
macros to fix all the likely issues.

Start the macro recorder and set all the options you require. As
you move to each new tab from options, all the settings on that
tab will be recorded. Extract the entries you want and add them to
the macros. Word's vba help explains the use of the different types of
auto
macros http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm also has some
sample code. Andrea wrote:
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.

Thank you for your response. I didn't mean that the AutoExec macro ended
with "End with.' What I meant was that in your sample, the line just before
"End sub" was "Command Bars etc.," but for the AutoOpen and AutoNew macros,
the line just before "End sub" was "End with." I hope that's clearer.
Anyway, it's not an issue for me now that I know that the AutoExec macro
doesn't apply to options. I've realized that my problem goes beyond the
Reading Layout view option, so I included the other options that aren't
being saved from the General and Save option tabs. However, the reason that
I'm posting this here instead of directly to you at your website as you
requested is that I don't have a question anymore about what to put in the
macros. The issue is that I've had an AutoOpen macro with
Options.AllowReading Mode = False for some time and recently added an
AutoNew macro with the same line after reading this thread, but the Allow
Starting in Reading Layout box kept getting checked again anyway. Yesterday
I created different AutoOpen and AutoNew macros to include the other options
that weren't being saved, but after opening and closing Word several times,
none of them (including the Reading Layout view) held. Do you or anyone else
have a suggestion?

Graham Mayor wrote:
There are three automacros listed on the web page:
AutoNew (which runs when a new document is created from the template)
AutoOpen (which runs when an existing document is opened)
AutoExec (which runs when Word is started).
and an associated macro CodesOff which is run from the AutoExec macro
after a short delay.

All the macros end with 'End Sub'. None of them ends with 'End With'?

You can record all of the Tools Options in a macro if you want, but
usually it is only a handful of settings that cause problems. The ones
that bother me are included in the sample macros, but you can supplement
these and/or replace them as necessary. Recording all the settings will
give you the syntax required - however as you have a specific issue let's
get back to basics.

To stop the reading layout you need the line:

Options.AllowReadingMode = False

in a macro called AutoOpen
ie at its simplest

Sub AutoOpen()
Options.AllowReadingMode = False
End Sub

If for some reason ReadingLayout mode activates for new documents, then
you also need that line in an AutoNew macro - again at its simplest

Sub AutoNew()
Options.AllowReadingMode = False
End Sub

Options are document related so AutoExec which runs before the document is
opened, will not be required.

If you have created some automacros, open the VBA editor (Alt+F11) and
replace them with the two above by copying and pasting from this message.

If you have other issues such as those documented on the web page then you
can add the relevant lines of code. (The text in green explains what the
code does). For example if you were to use the three macros in full, then
the line
Options.AllowReadingMode = True
could be inserted immediately before the EndSub statements in each of
AutoNew and AutoOpen.

If this is still not clear, contact me via my web site link with more
details.


Andrea wrote:
I _have_ looked at the link below--many times--as I wrote in a
previous post. Thank you for supplying the link, but it's not that
clear to someone as unfamiliar with macros as I am, and the VBA help
wasn't very detailed. Here are my questions. (1) Can the information
on each of the Options tabs be saved in an auto macro? In other
words, should I contain the macro to just some of the tabs? I notice
that in your samples, you're only selecting some options. (2) In your
sample of an AutoNew macro, you "End with" a line of code, whereas
your other auto macros just say "End with," then "End Sub." I don't
know what these terms mean; is the AutoNew macro supposed to end
differently? (3) Could you explain your sample AutoExec macro? I
don't understand what it's supposed to do, specifically "forces off
the display of formatting commands." Displayed where? I understand
that the AutoExec macro is used when Word is started or when a global
template is loaded, but I don't understand why the contents of this
macro aren't exactly the same as the AutoOpen or AutoNew. Because I
wasn't very grounded in macro terminology, I recorded a macro (not an
auto macro) as I opened each of the Options tabs. Then I copied all
of it to another AutoOpen and an AutoNew macro. (I did this because I
couldn't figure out if there was a way to directly record an auto
macro.) I don't know if this is adequate or converely, too much
copying. I still haven't created an AutoExec maco, but I will once I
understand what I'm doing. Thanks for your help.
Graham Mayor wrote:
See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm


Andrea wrote:
I was hoping that this was fixed, but the Options settings,
including disabling Reading Layout View, are not holding. I now
have 2 auto open macros macros installed:
OpenOptions.AllowReadingMode = False and ActiveWindow.View.Type =
wdNormalView. I've read the link that you suggest (many times), but
I'm not familiar enough with macros to know exactly how to go about
creating an autonew or autoexec macro. Do I just name the macro
(E.g., for autonew) and then start recording as I would for a
non-auto macro?
Graham Mayor wrote:
It is a fact of life that some users find some settings of the
Options volatile, exacerbated by the addition of poorly written
add-ins that write to the registry. The only sure solution is to
force the settings using auto macros. You may need a combination of
autoopen
autonew
and
autoexec
macros to fix all the likely issues.

Start the macro recorder and set all the options you require. As
you move to each new tab from options, all the settings on that
tab will be recorded. Extract the entries you want and add them to
the macros. Word's vba help explains the use of the different types of
auto
macros http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm also has some
sample code. Andrea wrote:
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.

Did you save normal.dot after making the changes?
Are you using Word as Outlook editor?
Close both Word and Outlook
Attend to the measures listed at
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm then reopen Word.
I take it that you only have one copy of each macro in normal.dot?

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Andrea wrote:
Thank you for your response. I didn't mean that the AutoExec macro
ended with "End with.' What I meant was that in your sample, the line
just before "End sub" was "Command Bars etc.," but for the AutoOpen
and AutoNew macros, the line just before "End sub" was "End with." I
hope that's clearer. Anyway, it's not an issue for me now that I know
that the AutoExec macro doesn't apply to options. I've realized that
my problem goes beyond the Reading Layout view option, so I included
the other options that aren't being saved from the General and Save
option tabs. However, the reason that I'm posting this here instead
of directly to you at your website as you requested is that I don't
have a question anymore about what to put in the macros. The issue is
that I've had an AutoOpen macro with Options.AllowReading Mode =
False for some time and recently added an AutoNew macro with the same
line after reading this thread, but the Allow Starting in Reading
Layout box kept getting checked again anyway. Yesterday I created
different AutoOpen and AutoNew macros to include the other options
that weren't being saved, but after opening and closing Word several
times, none of them (including the Reading Layout view) held. Do you
or anyone else have a suggestion?
Graham Mayor wrote:
There are three automacros listed on the web page:
AutoNew (which runs when a new document is created from the template)
AutoOpen (which runs when an existing document is opened)
AutoExec (which runs when Word is started).
and an associated macro CodesOff which is run from the AutoExec macro
after a short delay.

All the macros end with 'End Sub'. None of them ends with 'End With'?

You can record all of the Tools Options in a macro if you want, but
usually it is only a handful of settings that cause problems. The
ones that bother me are included in the sample macros, but you can
supplement these and/or replace them as necessary. Recording all the
settings will give you the syntax required - however as you have a
specific issue let's get back to basics.

To stop the reading layout you need the line:

Options.AllowReadingMode = False

in a macro called AutoOpen
ie at its simplest

Sub AutoOpen()
Options.AllowReadingMode = False
End Sub

If for some reason ReadingLayout mode activates for new documents,
then you also need that line in an AutoNew macro - again at its
simplest Sub AutoNew()
Options.AllowReadingMode = False
End Sub

Options are document related so AutoExec which runs before the
document is opened, will not be required.

If you have created some automacros, open the VBA editor (Alt+F11)
and replace them with the two above by copying and pasting from this
message. If you have other issues such as those documented on the web
page
then you can add the relevant lines of code. (The text in green
explains what the code does). For example if you were to use the
three macros in full, then the line
Options.AllowReadingMode = True
could be inserted immediately before the EndSub statements in each of
AutoNew and AutoOpen.

If this is still not clear, contact me via my web site link with more
details.


Andrea wrote:
I _have_ looked at the link below--many times--as I wrote in a
previous post. Thank you for supplying the link, but it's not that
clear to someone as unfamiliar with macros as I am, and the VBA help
wasn't very detailed. Here are my questions. (1) Can the information
on each of the Options tabs be saved in an auto macro? In other
words, should I contain the macro to just some of the tabs? I notice
that in your samples, you're only selecting some options. (2) In
your sample of an AutoNew macro, you "End with" a line of code,
whereas your other auto macros just say "End with," then "End Sub."
I don't know what these terms mean; is the AutoNew macro supposed
to end differently? (3) Could you explain your sample AutoExec
macro? I don't understand what it's supposed to do, specifically
"forces off the display of formatting commands." Displayed where? I
understand that the AutoExec macro is used when Word is started or
when a global template is loaded, but I don't understand why the
contents of this macro aren't exactly the same as the AutoOpen or
AutoNew. Because I wasn't very grounded in macro terminology, I
recorded a macro (not an auto macro) as I opened each of the
Options tabs. Then I copied all of it to another AutoOpen and an
AutoNew macro. (I did this because I couldn't figure out if there
was a way to directly record an auto macro.) I don't know if this
is adequate or converely, too much copying. I still haven't created
an AutoExec maco, but I will once I understand what I'm doing.
Thanks for your help. Graham Mayor wrote:
See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm


Andrea wrote:
I was hoping that this was fixed, but the Options settings,
including disabling Reading Layout View, are not holding. I now
have 2 auto open macros macros installed:
OpenOptions.AllowReadingMode = False and ActiveWindow.View.Type =
wdNormalView. I've read the link that you suggest (many times),
but I'm not familiar enough with macros to know exactly how to go
about creating an autonew or autoexec macro. Do I just name the
macro (E.g., for autonew) and then start recording as I would for
a non-auto macro?
Graham Mayor wrote:
It is a fact of life that some users find some settings of the
Options volatile, exacerbated by the addition of poorly written
add-ins that write to the registry. The only sure solution is to
force the settings using auto macros. You may need a combination
of autoopen
autonew
and
autoexec
macros to fix all the likely issues.

Start the macro recorder and set all the options you require. As
you move to each new tab from options, all the settings on that
tab will be recorded. Extract the entries you want and add them
to the macros. Word's vba help explains the use of the different
types of auto
macros http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm also has some
sample code. Andrea wrote:
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.

I did save normal.dot, and I am using Word as Outlook editor, although
Outlook was closed when I made the changes and it was closed when I opened
Word and saw that the options hadn't held. I did have an original AutoOpen
macro with only the reading layout line and another one with all the options
(called AutoOpen2). It sounds as if I should have deleted one? I've now done
that. I looked at the newest link you sent. I use a disk cleaning program
obsessively, so there weren't any .tmp files anywhere, but there were a
couple of other junk files, including a ~$normal.dot template from 2005.
I've seen it there before and not known whether to delete it. I'll report
back whether the settings hold now. Thank you.

Graham Mayor wrote:
Did you save normal.dot after making the changes?
Are you using Word as Outlook editor?
Close both Word and Outlook
Attend to the measures listed at
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm then reopen Word.
I take it that you only have one copy of each macro in normal.dot?


Andrea wrote:
Thank you for your response. I didn't mean that the AutoExec macro
ended with "End with.' What I meant was that in your sample, the line
just before "End sub" was "Command Bars etc.," but for the AutoOpen
and AutoNew macros, the line just before "End sub" was "End with." I
hope that's clearer. Anyway, it's not an issue for me now that I know
that the AutoExec macro doesn't apply to options. I've realized that
my problem goes beyond the Reading Layout view option, so I included
the other options that aren't being saved from the General and Save
option tabs. However, the reason that I'm posting this here instead
of directly to you at your website as you requested is that I don't
have a question anymore about what to put in the macros. The issue is
that I've had an AutoOpen macro with Options.AllowReading Mode =
False for some time and recently added an AutoNew macro with the same
line after reading this thread, but the Allow Starting in Reading
Layout box kept getting checked again anyway. Yesterday I created
different AutoOpen and AutoNew macros to include the other options
that weren't being saved, but after opening and closing Word several
times, none of them (including the Reading Layout view) held. Do you
or anyone else have a suggestion?
Graham Mayor wrote:
There are three automacros listed on the web page:
AutoNew (which runs when a new document is created from the template)
AutoOpen (which runs when an existing document is opened)
AutoExec (which runs when Word is started).
and an associated macro CodesOff which is run from the AutoExec macro
after a short delay.

All the macros end with 'End Sub'. None of them ends with 'End With'?

You can record all of the Tools Options in a macro if you want, but
usually it is only a handful of settings that cause problems. The
ones that bother me are included in the sample macros, but you can
supplement these and/or replace them as necessary. Recording all the
settings will give you the syntax required - however as you have a
specific issue let's get back to basics.

To stop the reading layout you need the line:

Options.AllowReadingMode = False

in a macro called AutoOpen
ie at its simplest

Sub AutoOpen()
Options.AllowReadingMode = False
End Sub

If for some reason ReadingLayout mode activates for new documents,
then you also need that line in an AutoNew macro - again at its
simplest Sub AutoNew()
Options.AllowReadingMode = False
End Sub

Options are document related so AutoExec which runs before the
document is opened, will not be required.

If you have created some automacros, open the VBA editor (Alt+F11)
and replace them with the two above by copying and pasting from this
message. If you have other issues such as those documented on the web
page
then you can add the relevant lines of code. (The text in green
explains what the code does). For example if you were to use the
three macros in full, then the line
Options.AllowReadingMode = True
could be inserted immediately before the EndSub statements in each of
AutoNew and AutoOpen.

If this is still not clear, contact me via my web site link with more
details.


Andrea wrote:
I _have_ looked at the link below--many times--as I wrote in a
previous post. Thank you for supplying the link, but it's not that
clear to someone as unfamiliar with macros as I am, and the VBA help
wasn't very detailed. Here are my questions. (1) Can the information
on each of the Options tabs be saved in an auto macro? In other
words, should I contain the macro to just some of the tabs? I notice
that in your samples, you're only selecting some options. (2) In
your sample of an AutoNew macro, you "End with" a line of code,
whereas your other auto macros just say "End with," then "End Sub."
I don't know what these terms mean; is the AutoNew macro supposed
to end differently? (3) Could you explain your sample AutoExec
macro? I don't understand what it's supposed to do, specifically
"forces off the display of formatting commands." Displayed where? I
understand that the AutoExec macro is used when Word is started or
when a global template is loaded, but I don't understand why the
contents of this macro aren't exactly the same as the AutoOpen or
AutoNew. Because I wasn't very grounded in macro terminology, I
recorded a macro (not an auto macro) as I opened each of the
Options tabs. Then I copied all of it to another AutoOpen and an
AutoNew macro. (I did this because I couldn't figure out if there
was a way to directly record an auto macro.) I don't know if this
is adequate or converely, too much copying. I still haven't created
an AutoExec maco, but I will once I understand what I'm doing.
Thanks for your help. Graham Mayor wrote:
See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm


Andrea wrote:
I was hoping that this was fixed, but the Options settings,
including disabling Reading Layout View, are not holding. I now
have 2 auto open macros macros installed:
OpenOptions.AllowReadingMode = False and ActiveWindow.View.Type =
wdNormalView. I've read the link that you suggest (many times),
but I'm not familiar enough with macros to know exactly how to go
about creating an autonew or autoexec macro. Do I just name the
macro (E.g., for autonew) and then start recording as I would for
a non-auto macro?
Graham Mayor wrote:
It is a fact of life that some users find some settings of the
Options volatile, exacerbated by the addition of poorly written
add-ins that write to the registry. The only sure solution is to
force the settings using auto macros. You may need a combination
of autoopen
autonew
and
autoexec
macros to fix all the likely issues.

Start the macro recorder and set all the options you require. As
you move to each new tab from options, all the settings on that
tab will be recorded. Extract the entries you want and add them
to the macros. Word's vba help explains the use of the different
types of auto
macros http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm also has some
sample code. Andrea wrote:
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.

If ~$normal.dot remains when Word and Outlook are both closed - delete it.

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Andrea wrote:
I did save normal.dot, and I am using Word as Outlook editor, although
Outlook was closed when I made the changes and it was closed when I
opened Word and saw that the options hadn't held. I did have an
original AutoOpen macro with only the reading layout line and another
one with all the options (called AutoOpen2). It sounds as if I should
have deleted one? I've now done that. I looked at the newest link you
sent. I use a disk cleaning program obsessively, so there weren't any
.tmp files anywhere, but there were a couple of other junk files,
including a ~$normal.dot template from 2005. I've seen it there
before and not known whether to delete it. I'll report back whether
the settings hold now. Thank you.
Graham Mayor wrote:
Did you save normal.dot after making the changes?
Are you using Word as Outlook editor?
Close both Word and Outlook
Attend to the measures listed at
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm then reopen
Word. I take it that you only have one copy of each macro in
normal.dot? Andrea wrote:
Thank you for your response. I didn't mean that the AutoExec macro
ended with "End with.' What I meant was that in your sample, the
line just before "End sub" was "Command Bars etc.," but for the
AutoOpen and AutoNew macros, the line just before "End sub" was
"End with." I hope that's clearer. Anyway, it's not an issue for me
now that I know that the AutoExec macro doesn't apply to options.
I've realized that my problem goes beyond the Reading Layout view
option, so I included the other options that aren't being saved
from the General and Save option tabs. However, the reason that I'm
posting this here instead of directly to you at your website as you
requested is that I don't have a question anymore about what to put
in the macros. The issue is that I've had an AutoOpen macro with
Options.AllowReading Mode = False for some time and recently added
an AutoNew macro with the same line after reading this thread, but
the Allow Starting in Reading Layout box kept getting checked again
anyway. Yesterday I created different AutoOpen and AutoNew macros
to include the other options that weren't being saved, but after
opening and closing Word several times, none of them (including the
Reading Layout view) held. Do you or anyone else have a suggestion?
Graham Mayor wrote:
There are three automacros listed on the web page:
AutoNew (which runs when a new document is created from the
template) AutoOpen (which runs when an existing document is opened)
AutoExec (which runs when Word is started).
and an associated macro CodesOff which is run from the AutoExec
macro after a short delay.

All the macros end with 'End Sub'. None of them ends with 'End
With'? You can record all of the Tools Options in a macro if you want,
but
usually it is only a handful of settings that cause problems. The
ones that bother me are included in the sample macros, but you can
supplement these and/or replace them as necessary. Recording all
the settings will give you the syntax required - however as you
have a specific issue let's get back to basics.

To stop the reading layout you need the line:

Options.AllowReadingMode = False

in a macro called AutoOpen
ie at its simplest

Sub AutoOpen()
Options.AllowReadingMode = False
End Sub

If for some reason ReadingLayout mode activates for new documents,
then you also need that line in an AutoNew macro - again at its
simplest Sub AutoNew()
Options.AllowReadingMode = False
End Sub

Options are document related so AutoExec which runs before the
document is opened, will not be required.

If you have created some automacros, open the VBA editor (Alt+F11)
and replace them with the two above by copying and pasting from
this message. If you have other issues such as those documented on
the web page
then you can add the relevant lines of code. (The text in green
explains what the code does). For example if you were to use the
three macros in full, then the line
Options.AllowReadingMode = True
could be inserted immediately before the EndSub statements in each
of AutoNew and AutoOpen.

If this is still not clear, contact me via my web site link with
more details.


Andrea wrote:
I _have_ looked at the link below--many times--as I wrote in a
previous post. Thank you for supplying the link, but it's not that
clear to someone as unfamiliar with macros as I am, and the VBA
help wasn't very detailed. Here are my questions. (1) Can the
information on each of the Options tabs be saved in an auto
macro? In other words, should I contain the macro to just some of
the tabs? I notice that in your samples, you're only selecting
some options. (2) In your sample of an AutoNew macro, you "End
with" a line of code, whereas your other auto macros just say
"End with," then "End Sub." I don't know what these terms mean;
is the AutoNew macro supposed to end differently? (3) Could you
explain your sample AutoExec macro? I don't understand what it's
supposed to do, specifically "forces off the display of
formatting commands." Displayed where? I understand that the
AutoExec macro is used when Word is started or when a global
template is loaded, but I don't understand why the contents of
this macro aren't exactly the same as the AutoOpen or AutoNew.
Because I wasn't very grounded in macro terminology, I recorded a
macro (not an auto macro) as I opened each of the Options tabs.
Then I copied all of it to another AutoOpen and an AutoNew macro.
(I did this because I couldn't figure out if there was a way to
directly record an auto macro.) I don't know if this is adequate
or converely, too much copying. I still haven't created an
AutoExec maco, but I will once I understand what I'm doing.
Thanks for your help. Graham Mayor wrote:
See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm


Andrea wrote:
I was hoping that this was fixed, but the Options settings,
including disabling Reading Layout View, are not holding. I now
have 2 auto open macros macros installed:
OpenOptions.AllowReadingMode = False and ActiveWindow.View.Type
= wdNormalView. I've read the link that you suggest (many
times), but I'm not familiar enough with macros to know exactly
how to go about creating an autonew or autoexec macro. Do I
just name the macro (E.g., for autonew) and then start
recording as I would for a non-auto macro?
Graham Mayor wrote:
It is a fact of life that some users find some settings of the
Options volatile, exacerbated by the addition of poorly written
add-ins that write to the registry. The only sure solution is
to force the settings using auto macros. You may need a
combination of autoopen
autonew
and
autoexec
macros to fix all the likely issues.

Start the macro recorder and set all the options you require.
As you move to each new tab from options, all the settings on
that tab will be recorded. Extract the entries you want and
add them to the macros. Word's vba help explains the use of
the different types of auto
macros http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm also has some
sample code. Andrea wrote:
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.

It's gone, but when I opened Word again, my settings were off! The worst
part of this isn't even the annoying Reading Layout, although that is
annoying, but that the Always Create Backup Copy gets unchecked and the
AutoRecover time gets changed.

Graham Mayor wrote:
If ~$normal.dot remains when Word and Outlook are both closed - delete it.


Andrea wrote:
I did save normal.dot, and I am using Word as Outlook editor, although
Outlook was closed when I made the changes and it was closed when I
opened Word and saw that the options hadn't held. I did have an
original AutoOpen macro with only the reading layout line and another
one with all the options (called AutoOpen2). It sounds as if I should
have deleted one? I've now done that. I looked at the newest link you
sent. I use a disk cleaning program obsessively, so there weren't any
.tmp files anywhere, but there were a couple of other junk files,
including a ~$normal.dot template from 2005. I've seen it there
before and not known whether to delete it. I'll report back whether
the settings hold now. Thank you.
Graham Mayor wrote:
Did you save normal.dot after making the changes?
Are you using Word as Outlook editor?
Close both Word and Outlook
Attend to the measures listed at
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm then reopen
Word. I take it that you only have one copy of each macro in
normal.dot? Andrea wrote:
Thank you for your response. I didn't mean that the AutoExec macro
ended with "End with.' What I meant was that in your sample, the
line just before "End sub" was "Command Bars etc.," but for the
AutoOpen and AutoNew macros, the line just before "End sub" was
"End with." I hope that's clearer. Anyway, it's not an issue for me
now that I know that the AutoExec macro doesn't apply to options.
I've realized that my problem goes beyond the Reading Layout view
option, so I included the other options that aren't being saved
from the General and Save option tabs. However, the reason that I'm
posting this here instead of directly to you at your website as you
requested is that I don't have a question anymore about what to put
in the macros. The issue is that I've had an AutoOpen macro with
Options.AllowReading Mode = False for some time and recently added
an AutoNew macro with the same line after reading this thread, but
the Allow Starting in Reading Layout box kept getting checked again
anyway. Yesterday I created different AutoOpen and AutoNew macros
to include the other options that weren't being saved, but after
opening and closing Word several times, none of them (including the
Reading Layout view) held. Do you or anyone else have a suggestion?
Graham Mayor wrote:
There are three automacros listed on the web page:
AutoNew (which runs when a new document is created from the
template) AutoOpen (which runs when an existing document is opened)
AutoExec (which runs when Word is started).
and an associated macro CodesOff which is run from the AutoExec
macro after a short delay.

All the macros end with 'End Sub'. None of them ends with 'End
With'? You can record all of the Tools Options in a macro if you want,
but
usually it is only a handful of settings that cause problems. The
ones that bother me are included in the sample macros, but you can
supplement these and/or replace them as necessary. Recording all
the settings will give you the syntax required - however as you
have a specific issue let's get back to basics.

To stop the reading layout you need the line:

Options.AllowReadingMode = False

in a macro called AutoOpen
ie at its simplest

Sub AutoOpen()
Options.AllowReadingMode = False
End Sub

If for some reason ReadingLayout mode activates for new documents,
then you also need that line in an AutoNew macro - again at its
simplest Sub AutoNew()
Options.AllowReadingMode = False
End Sub

Options are document related so AutoExec which runs before the
document is opened, will not be required.

If you have created some automacros, open the VBA editor (Alt+F11)
and replace them with the two above by copying and pasting from
this message. If you have other issues such as those documented on
the web page
then you can add the relevant lines of code. (The text in green
explains what the code does). For example if you were to use the
three macros in full, then the line
Options.AllowReadingMode = True
could be inserted immediately before the EndSub statements in each
of AutoNew and AutoOpen.

If this is still not clear, contact me via my web site link with
more details.


Andrea wrote:
I _have_ looked at the link below--many times--as I wrote in a
previous post. Thank you for supplying the link, but it's not that
clear to someone as unfamiliar with macros as I am, and the VBA
help wasn't very detailed. Here are my questions. (1) Can the
information on each of the Options tabs be saved in an auto
macro? In other words, should I contain the macro to just some of
the tabs? I notice that in your samples, you're only selecting
some options. (2) In your sample of an AutoNew macro, you "End
with" a line of code, whereas your other auto macros just say
"End with," then "End Sub." I don't know what these terms mean;
is the AutoNew macro supposed to end differently? (3) Could you
explain your sample AutoExec macro? I don't understand what it's
supposed to do, specifically "forces off the display of
formatting commands." Displayed where? I understand that the
AutoExec macro is used when Word is started or when a global
template is loaded, but I don't understand why the contents of
this macro aren't exactly the same as the AutoOpen or AutoNew.
Because I wasn't very grounded in macro terminology, I recorded a
macro (not an auto macro) as I opened each of the Options tabs.
Then I copied all of it to another AutoOpen and an AutoNew macro.
(I did this because I couldn't figure out if there was a way to
directly record an auto macro.) I don't know if this is adequate
or converely, too much copying. I still haven't created an
AutoExec maco, but I will once I understand what I'm doing.
Thanks for your help. Graham Mayor wrote:
See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm


Andrea wrote:
I was hoping that this was fixed, but the Options settings,
including disabling Reading Layout View, are not holding. I now
have 2 auto open macros macros installed:
OpenOptions.AllowReadingMode = False and ActiveWindow.View.Type
= wdNormalView. I've read the link that you suggest (many
times), but I'm not familiar enough with macros to know exactly
how to go about creating an autonew or autoexec macro. Do I
just name the macro (E.g., for autonew) and then start
recording as I would for a non-auto macro?
Graham Mayor wrote:
It is a fact of life that some users find some settings of the
Options volatile, exacerbated by the addition of poorly written
add-ins that write to the registry. The only sure solution is
to force the settings using auto macros. You may need a
combination of autoopen
autonew
and
autoexec
macros to fix all the likely issues.

Start the macro recorder and set all the options you require.
As you move to each new tab from options, all the settings on
that tab will be recorded. Extract the entries you want and
add them to the macros. Word's vba help explains the use of
the different types of auto
macros http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm also has some
sample code. Andrea wrote:
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.

It sounds very much as if some add-in is changing these settings.

--
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.

"Andrea" wrote in message
...
It's gone, but when I opened Word again, my settings were off! The worst
part of this isn't even the annoying Reading Layout, although that is
annoying, but that the Always Create Backup Copy gets unchecked and the
AutoRecover time gets changed.

Graham Mayor wrote:
If ~$normal.dot remains when Word and Outlook are both closed - delete
it.


Andrea wrote:
I did save normal.dot, and I am using Word as Outlook editor, although
Outlook was closed when I made the changes and it was closed when I
opened Word and saw that the options hadn't held. I did have an
original AutoOpen macro with only the reading layout line and another
one with all the options (called AutoOpen2). It sounds as if I should
have deleted one? I've now done that. I looked at the newest link you
sent. I use a disk cleaning program obsessively, so there weren't any
.tmp files anywhere, but there were a couple of other junk files,
including a ~$normal.dot template from 2005. I've seen it there
before and not known whether to delete it. I'll report back whether
the settings hold now. Thank you.
Graham Mayor wrote:
Did you save normal.dot after making the changes?
Are you using Word as Outlook editor?
Close both Word and Outlook
Attend to the measures listed at
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm then reopen
Word. I take it that you only have one copy of each macro in
normal.dot? Andrea wrote:
Thank you for your response. I didn't mean that the AutoExec macro
ended with "End with.' What I meant was that in your sample, the
line just before "End sub" was "Command Bars etc.," but for the
AutoOpen and AutoNew macros, the line just before "End sub" was
"End with." I hope that's clearer. Anyway, it's not an issue for me
now that I know that the AutoExec macro doesn't apply to options.
I've realized that my problem goes beyond the Reading Layout view
option, so I included the other options that aren't being saved
from the General and Save option tabs. However, the reason that I'm
posting this here instead of directly to you at your website as you
requested is that I don't have a question anymore about what to put
in the macros. The issue is that I've had an AutoOpen macro with
Options.AllowReading Mode = False for some time and recently added
an AutoNew macro with the same line after reading this thread, but
the Allow Starting in Reading Layout box kept getting checked again
anyway. Yesterday I created different AutoOpen and AutoNew macros
to include the other options that weren't being saved, but after
opening and closing Word several times, none of them (including the
Reading Layout view) held. Do you or anyone else have a suggestion?
Graham Mayor wrote:
There are three automacros listed on the web page:
AutoNew (which runs when a new document is created from the
template) AutoOpen (which runs when an existing document is opened)
AutoExec (which runs when Word is started).
and an associated macro CodesOff which is run from the AutoExec
macro after a short delay.

All the macros end with 'End Sub'. None of them ends with 'End
With'? You can record all of the Tools Options in a macro if you
want,
but
usually it is only a handful of settings that cause problems. The
ones that bother me are included in the sample macros, but you can
supplement these and/or replace them as necessary. Recording all
the settings will give you the syntax required - however as you
have a specific issue let's get back to basics.

To stop the reading layout you need the line:

Options.AllowReadingMode = False

in a macro called AutoOpen
ie at its simplest

Sub AutoOpen()
Options.AllowReadingMode = False
End Sub

If for some reason ReadingLayout mode activates for new documents,
then you also need that line in an AutoNew macro - again at its
simplest Sub AutoNew()
Options.AllowReadingMode = False
End Sub

Options are document related so AutoExec which runs before the
document is opened, will not be required.

If you have created some automacros, open the VBA editor (Alt+F11)
and replace them with the two above by copying and pasting from
this message. If you have other issues such as those documented on
the web page
then you can add the relevant lines of code. (The text in green
explains what the code does). For example if you were to use the
three macros in full, then the line
Options.AllowReadingMode = True
could be inserted immediately before the EndSub statements in each
of AutoNew and AutoOpen.

If this is still not clear, contact me via my web site link with
more details.


Andrea wrote:
I _have_ looked at the link below--many times--as I wrote in a
previous post. Thank you for supplying the link, but it's not that
clear to someone as unfamiliar with macros as I am, and the VBA
help wasn't very detailed. Here are my questions. (1) Can the
information on each of the Options tabs be saved in an auto
macro? In other words, should I contain the macro to just some of
the tabs? I notice that in your samples, you're only selecting
some options. (2) In your sample of an AutoNew macro, you "End
with" a line of code, whereas your other auto macros just say
"End with," then "End Sub." I don't know what these terms mean;
is the AutoNew macro supposed to end differently? (3) Could you
explain your sample AutoExec macro? I don't understand what it's
supposed to do, specifically "forces off the display of
formatting commands." Displayed where? I understand that the
AutoExec macro is used when Word is started or when a global
template is loaded, but I don't understand why the contents of
this macro aren't exactly the same as the AutoOpen or AutoNew.
Because I wasn't very grounded in macro terminology, I recorded a
macro (not an auto macro) as I opened each of the Options tabs.
Then I copied all of it to another AutoOpen and an AutoNew macro.
(I did this because I couldn't figure out if there was a way to
directly record an auto macro.) I don't know if this is adequate
or converely, too much copying. I still haven't created an
AutoExec maco, but I will once I understand what I'm doing.
Thanks for your help. Graham Mayor wrote:
See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm


Andrea wrote:
I was hoping that this was fixed, but the Options settings,
including disabling Reading Layout View, are not holding. I now
have 2 auto open macros macros installed:
OpenOptions.AllowReadingMode = False and ActiveWindow.View.Type
= wdNormalView. I've read the link that you suggest (many
times), but I'm not familiar enough with macros to know exactly
how to go about creating an autonew or autoexec macro. Do I
just name the macro (E.g., for autonew) and then start
recording as I would for a non-auto macro?
Graham Mayor wrote:
It is a fact of life that some users find some settings of the
Options volatile, exacerbated by the addition of poorly written
add-ins that write to the registry. The only sure solution is
to force the settings using auto macros. You may need a
combination of autoopen
autonew
and
autoexec
macros to fix all the likely issues.

Start the macro recorder and set all the options you require.
As you move to each new tab from options, all the settings on
that tab will be recorded. Extract the entries you want and
add them to the macros. Word's vba help explains the use of
the different types of auto
macros http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm also has some
sample code. Andrea wrote:
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.

If you have saved normal.dot containing the two mnacros - which must be
named AutoOpen and AutoNew and not something different like AutoOpen2 - then
they run whenever Word opens or creates a document and force the changes
just as if you had gone into Tools Options and changed them manually.

You could send me a copy of your normal.dot template to the link on my web
site and I will have a look at what you have done with it - tomorrow!

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org


Andrea wrote:
It's gone, but when I opened Word again, my settings were off! The
worst part of this isn't even the annoying Reading Layout, although
that is annoying, but that the Always Create Backup Copy gets
unchecked and the AutoRecover time gets changed.

Graham Mayor wrote:
If ~$normal.dot remains when Word and Outlook are both closed -
delete it. Andrea wrote:
I did save normal.dot, and I am using Word as Outlook editor,
although Outlook was closed when I made the changes and it was
closed when I opened Word and saw that the options hadn't held. I
did have an original AutoOpen macro with only the reading layout
line and another one with all the options (called AutoOpen2). It
sounds as if I should have deleted one? I've now done that. I
looked at the newest link you sent. I use a disk cleaning program
obsessively, so there weren't any .tmp files anywhere, but there
were a couple of other junk files, including a ~$normal.dot
template from 2005. I've seen it there before and not known whether
to delete it. I'll report back whether the settings hold now. Thank
you. Graham Mayor wrote:
Did you save normal.dot after making the changes?
Are you using Word as Outlook editor?
Close both Word and Outlook
Attend to the measures listed at
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm then reopen
Word. I take it that you only have one copy of each macro in
normal.dot? Andrea wrote:
Thank you for your response. I didn't mean that the AutoExec macro
ended with "End with.' What I meant was that in your sample, the
line just before "End sub" was "Command Bars etc.," but for the
AutoOpen and AutoNew macros, the line just before "End sub" was
"End with." I hope that's clearer. Anyway, it's not an issue for
me now that I know that the AutoExec macro doesn't apply to
options. I've realized that my problem goes beyond the Reading
Layout view option, so I included the other options that aren't
being saved from the General and Save option tabs. However, the
reason that I'm posting this here instead of directly to you at
your website as you requested is that I don't have a question
anymore about what to put in the macros. The issue is that I've
had an AutoOpen macro with Options.AllowReading Mode = False for
some time and recently added an AutoNew macro with the same line
after reading this thread, but the Allow Starting in Reading
Layout box kept getting checked again anyway. Yesterday I created
different AutoOpen and AutoNew macros to include the other
options that weren't being saved, but after opening and closing
Word several times, none of them (including the Reading Layout
view) held. Do you or anyone else have a suggestion? Graham Mayor
wrote:
There are three automacros listed on the web page:
AutoNew (which runs when a new document is created from the
template) AutoOpen (which runs when an existing document is
opened) AutoExec (which runs when Word is started).
and an associated macro CodesOff which is run from the AutoExec
macro after a short delay.

All the macros end with 'End Sub'. None of them ends with 'End
With'? You can record all of the Tools Options in a macro if you
want, but
usually it is only a handful of settings that cause problems. The
ones that bother me are included in the sample macros, but you
can supplement these and/or replace them as necessary. Recording
all the settings will give you the syntax required - however as you
have a specific issue let's get back to basics.

To stop the reading layout you need the line:

Options.AllowReadingMode = False

in a macro called AutoOpen
ie at its simplest

Sub AutoOpen()
Options.AllowReadingMode = False
End Sub

If for some reason ReadingLayout mode activates for new
documents, then you also need that line in an AutoNew macro -
again at its simplest Sub AutoNew()
Options.AllowReadingMode = False
End Sub

Options are document related so AutoExec which runs before the
document is opened, will not be required.

If you have created some automacros, open the VBA editor
(Alt+F11) and replace them with the two above by copying and
pasting from this message. If you have other issues such as those
documented
on the web page
then you can add the relevant lines of code. (The text in green
explains what the code does). For example if you were to use the
three macros in full, then the line
Options.AllowReadingMode = True
could be inserted immediately before the EndSub statements in
each of AutoNew and AutoOpen.

If this is still not clear, contact me via my web site link with
more details.


Andrea wrote:
I _have_ looked at the link below--many times--as I wrote in a
previous post. Thank you for supplying the link, but it's not
that clear to someone as unfamiliar with macros as I am, and
the VBA help wasn't very detailed. Here are my questions. (1)
Can the information on each of the Options tabs be saved in an
auto macro? In other words, should I contain the macro to just
some of the tabs? I notice that in your samples, you're only
selecting some options. (2) In your sample of an AutoNew macro,
you "End with" a line of code, whereas your other auto macros
just say "End with," then "End Sub." I don't know what these
terms mean; is the AutoNew macro supposed to end differently?
(3) Could you explain your sample AutoExec macro? I don't
understand what it's supposed to do, specifically "forces off
the display of formatting commands." Displayed where? I
understand that the AutoExec macro is used when Word is started
or when a global template is loaded, but I don't understand why
the contents of this macro aren't exactly the same as the
AutoOpen or AutoNew. Because I wasn't very grounded in macro
terminology, I recorded a macro (not an auto macro) as I opened
each of the Options tabs. Then I copied all of it to another
AutoOpen and an AutoNew macro. (I did this because I couldn't
figure out if there was a way to directly record an auto
macro.) I don't know if this is adequate or converely, too much
copying. I still haven't created an AutoExec maco, but I will
once I understand what I'm doing. Thanks for your help. Graham
Mayor wrote:
See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm


Andrea wrote:
I was hoping that this was fixed, but the Options settings,
including disabling Reading Layout View, are not holding. I
now have 2 auto open macros macros installed:
OpenOptions.AllowReadingMode = False and
ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdNormalView. I've read the link
that you suggest (many times), but I'm not familiar enough
with macros to know exactly how to go about creating an
autonew or autoexec macro. Do I just name the macro (E.g.,
for autonew) and then start recording as I would for a
non-auto macro? Graham Mayor wrote:
It is a fact of life that some users find some settings of
the Options volatile, exacerbated by the addition of poorly
written add-ins that write to the registry. The only sure
solution is to force the settings using auto macros. You may
need a combination of autoopen
autonew
and
autoexec
macros to fix all the likely issues.

Start the macro recorder and set all the options you require.
As you move to each new tab from options, all the settings on
that tab will be recorded. Extract the entries you want and
add them to the macros. Word's vba help explains the use of
the different types of auto
macros http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm also has
some sample code. Andrea wrote:
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.

As I searched more, I discovered that I have a normal.dot template in the
usual location, in the path with my name, but there's also another, older
one in the Administrator path. I tried opening it, and it brought me to a
blank Word document with all the correct settings, but I'd just corrected
them under (I assume) the other normal.dot template. Could the existence of
2 of these be causing the problem? If so, which should I delete? I will send
you a copy of the normal.dot template with the macros. I renamed one and
then the other of the 2 templates and saw that the macros are saving to the
newer one in the path with my name. I don't know how to read the contents of
a .dot file, but I can see the macros when I look for them in Word, Tools,
Macros.

Graham Mayor wrote:
If you have saved normal.dot containing the two mnacros - which must be
named AutoOpen and AutoNew and not something different like AutoOpen2 -
then they run whenever Word opens or creates a document and force the
changes just as if you had gone into Tools Options and changed them
manually.
You could send me a copy of your normal.dot template to the link on my web
site and I will have a look at what you have done with it - tomorrow!


Andrea wrote:
It's gone, but when I opened Word again, my settings were off! The
worst part of this isn't even the annoying Reading Layout, although
that is annoying, but that the Always Create Backup Copy gets
unchecked and the AutoRecover time gets changed.

Graham Mayor wrote:
If ~$normal.dot remains when Word and Outlook are both closed -
delete it. Andrea wrote:
I did save normal.dot, and I am using Word as Outlook editor,
although Outlook was closed when I made the changes and it was
closed when I opened Word and saw that the options hadn't held. I
did have an original AutoOpen macro with only the reading layout
line and another one with all the options (called AutoOpen2). It
sounds as if I should have deleted one? I've now done that. I
looked at the newest link you sent. I use a disk cleaning program
obsessively, so there weren't any .tmp files anywhere, but there
were a couple of other junk files, including a ~$normal.dot
template from 2005. I've seen it there before and not known whether
to delete it. I'll report back whether the settings hold now. Thank
you. Graham Mayor wrote:
Did you save normal.dot after making the changes?
Are you using Word as Outlook editor?
Close both Word and Outlook
Attend to the measures listed at
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm then reopen
Word. I take it that you only have one copy of each macro in
normal.dot? Andrea wrote:
Thank you for your response. I didn't mean that the AutoExec macro
ended with "End with.' What I meant was that in your sample, the
line just before "End sub" was "Command Bars etc.," but for the
AutoOpen and AutoNew macros, the line just before "End sub" was
"End with." I hope that's clearer. Anyway, it's not an issue for
me now that I know that the AutoExec macro doesn't apply to
options. I've realized that my problem goes beyond the Reading
Layout view option, so I included the other options that aren't
being saved from the General and Save option tabs. However, the
reason that I'm posting this here instead of directly to you at
your website as you requested is that I don't have a question
anymore about what to put in the macros. The issue is that I've
had an AutoOpen macro with Options.AllowReading Mode = False for
some time and recently added an AutoNew macro with the same line
after reading this thread, but the Allow Starting in Reading
Layout box kept getting checked again anyway. Yesterday I created
different AutoOpen and AutoNew macros to include the other
options that weren't being saved, but after opening and closing
Word several times, none of them (including the Reading Layout
view) held. Do you or anyone else have a suggestion? Graham Mayor
wrote:
There are three automacros listed on the web page:
AutoNew (which runs when a new document is created from the
template) AutoOpen (which runs when an existing document is
opened) AutoExec (which runs when Word is started).
and an associated macro CodesOff which is run from the AutoExec
macro after a short delay.

All the macros end with 'End Sub'. None of them ends with 'End
With'? You can record all of the Tools Options in a macro if you
want, but
usually it is only a handful of settings that cause problems. The
ones that bother me are included in the sample macros, but you
can supplement these and/or replace them as necessary. Recording
all the settings will give you the syntax required - however as you
have a specific issue let's get back to basics.

To stop the reading layout you need the line:

Options.AllowReadingMode = False

in a macro called AutoOpen
ie at its simplest

Sub AutoOpen()
Options.AllowReadingMode = False
End Sub

If for some reason ReadingLayout mode activates for new
documents, then you also need that line in an AutoNew macro -
again at its simplest Sub AutoNew()
Options.AllowReadingMode = False
End Sub

Options are document related so AutoExec which runs before the
document is opened, will not be required.

If you have created some automacros, open the VBA editor
(Alt+F11) and replace them with the two above by copying and
pasting from this message. If you have other issues such as those
documented
on the web page
then you can add the relevant lines of code. (The text in green
explains what the code does). For example if you were to use the
three macros in full, then the line
Options.AllowReadingMode = True
could be inserted immediately before the EndSub statements in
each of AutoNew and AutoOpen.

If this is still not clear, contact me via my web site link with
more details.


Andrea wrote:
I _have_ looked at the link below--many times--as I wrote in a
previous post. Thank you for supplying the link, but it's not
that clear to someone as unfamiliar with macros as I am, and
the VBA help wasn't very detailed. Here are my questions. (1)
Can the information on each of the Options tabs be saved in an
auto macro? In other words, should I contain the macro to just
some of the tabs? I notice that in your samples, you're only
selecting some options. (2) In your sample of an AutoNew macro,
you "End with" a line of code, whereas your other auto macros
just say "End with," then "End Sub." I don't know what these
terms mean; is the AutoNew macro supposed to end differently?
(3) Could you explain your sample AutoExec macro? I don't
understand what it's supposed to do, specifically "forces off
the display of formatting commands." Displayed where? I
understand that the AutoExec macro is used when Word is started
or when a global template is loaded, but I don't understand why
the contents of this macro aren't exactly the same as the
AutoOpen or AutoNew. Because I wasn't very grounded in macro
terminology, I recorded a macro (not an auto macro) as I opened
each of the Options tabs. Then I copied all of it to another
AutoOpen and an AutoNew macro. (I did this because I couldn't
figure out if there was a way to directly record an auto
macro.) I don't know if this is adequate or converely, too much
copying. I still haven't created an AutoExec maco, but I will
once I understand what I'm doing. Thanks for your help. Graham
Mayor wrote:
See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm


Andrea wrote:
I was hoping that this was fixed, but the Options settings,
including disabling Reading Layout View, are not holding. I
now have 2 auto open macros macros installed:
OpenOptions.AllowReadingMode = False and
ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdNormalView. I've read the link
that you suggest (many times), but I'm not familiar enough
with macros to know exactly how to go about creating an
autonew or autoexec macro. Do I just name the macro (E.g.,
for autonew) and then start recording as I would for a
non-auto macro? Graham Mayor wrote:
It is a fact of life that some users find some settings of
the Options volatile, exacerbated by the addition of poorly
written add-ins that write to the registry. The only sure
solution is to force the settings using auto macros. You may
need a combination of autoopen
autonew
and
autoexec
macros to fix all the likely issues.

Start the macro recorder and set all the options you require.
As you move to each new tab from options, all the settings on
that tab will be recorded. Extract the entries you want and
add them to the macros. Word's vba help explains the use of
the different types of auto
macros http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm also has
some sample code. Andrea wrote:
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.

That may be so, but I already deleted the add-ins that I saw in the global
templates and addins window from their startup menus. Is there any way for
me to tell if there are other add-ins?

Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
It sounds very much as if some add-in is changing these settings.


"Andrea" wrote in message
...
It's gone, but when I opened Word again, my settings were off! The worst
part of this isn't even the annoying Reading Layout, although that is
annoying, but that the Always Create Backup Copy gets unchecked and the
AutoRecover time gets changed.

Graham Mayor wrote:
If ~$normal.dot remains when Word and Outlook are both closed - delete
it.


Andrea wrote:
I did save normal.dot, and I am using Word as Outlook editor, although
Outlook was closed when I made the changes and it was closed when I
opened Word and saw that the options hadn't held. I did have an
original AutoOpen macro with only the reading layout line and another
one with all the options (called AutoOpen2). It sounds as if I should
have deleted one? I've now done that. I looked at the newest link you
sent. I use a disk cleaning program obsessively, so there weren't any
.tmp files anywhere, but there were a couple of other junk files,
including a ~$normal.dot template from 2005. I've seen it there
before and not known whether to delete it. I'll report back whether
the settings hold now. Thank you.
Graham Mayor wrote:
Did you save normal.dot after making the changes?
Are you using Word as Outlook editor?
Close both Word and Outlook
Attend to the measures listed at
http://www.gmayor.com/what_to_do_when_word_crashes.htm then reopen
Word. I take it that you only have one copy of each macro in
normal.dot? Andrea wrote:
Thank you for your response. I didn't mean that the AutoExec macro
ended with "End with.' What I meant was that in your sample, the
line just before "End sub" was "Command Bars etc.," but for the
AutoOpen and AutoNew macros, the line just before "End sub" was
"End with." I hope that's clearer. Anyway, it's not an issue for me
now that I know that the AutoExec macro doesn't apply to options.
I've realized that my problem goes beyond the Reading Layout view
option, so I included the other options that aren't being saved
from the General and Save option tabs. However, the reason that I'm
posting this here instead of directly to you at your website as you
requested is that I don't have a question anymore about what to put
in the macros. The issue is that I've had an AutoOpen macro with
Options.AllowReading Mode = False for some time and recently added
an AutoNew macro with the same line after reading this thread, but
the Allow Starting in Reading Layout box kept getting checked again
anyway. Yesterday I created different AutoOpen and AutoNew macros
to include the other options that weren't being saved, but after
opening and closing Word several times, none of them (including the
Reading Layout view) held. Do you or anyone else have a suggestion?
Graham Mayor wrote:
There are three automacros listed on the web page:
AutoNew (which runs when a new document is created from the
template) AutoOpen (which runs when an existing document is opened)
AutoExec (which runs when Word is started).
and an associated macro CodesOff which is run from the AutoExec
macro after a short delay.

All the macros end with 'End Sub'. None of them ends with 'End
With'? You can record all of the Tools Options in a macro if you
want, but
usually it is only a handful of settings that cause problems. The
ones that bother me are included in the sample macros, but you can
supplement these and/or replace them as necessary. Recording all
the settings will give you the syntax required - however as you
have a specific issue let's get back to basics.

To stop the reading layout you need the line:

Options.AllowReadingMode = False

in a macro called AutoOpen
ie at its simplest

Sub AutoOpen()
Options.AllowReadingMode = False
End Sub

If for some reason ReadingLayout mode activates for new documents,
then you also need that line in an AutoNew macro - again at its
simplest Sub AutoNew()
Options.AllowReadingMode = False
End Sub

Options are document related so AutoExec which runs before the
document is opened, will not be required.

If you have created some automacros, open the VBA editor (Alt+F11)
and replace them with the two above by copying and pasting from
this message. If you have other issues such as those documented on
the web page
then you can add the relevant lines of code. (The text in green
explains what the code does). For example if you were to use the
three macros in full, then the line
Options.AllowReadingMode = True
could be inserted immediately before the EndSub statements in each
of AutoNew and AutoOpen.

If this is still not clear, contact me via my web site link with
more details.


Andrea wrote:
I _have_ looked at the link below--many times--as I wrote in a
previous post. Thank you for supplying the link, but it's not that
clear to someone as unfamiliar with macros as I am, and the VBA
help wasn't very detailed. Here are my questions. (1) Can the
information on each of the Options tabs be saved in an auto
macro? In other words, should I contain the macro to just some of
the tabs? I notice that in your samples, you're only selecting
some options. (2) In your sample of an AutoNew macro, you "End
with" a line of code, whereas your other auto macros just say
"End with," then "End Sub." I don't know what these terms mean;
is the AutoNew macro supposed to end differently? (3) Could you
explain your sample AutoExec macro? I don't understand what it's
supposed to do, specifically "forces off the display of
formatting commands." Displayed where? I understand that the
AutoExec macro is used when Word is started or when a global
template is loaded, but I don't understand why the contents of
this macro aren't exactly the same as the AutoOpen or AutoNew.
Because I wasn't very grounded in macro terminology, I recorded a
macro (not an auto macro) as I opened each of the Options tabs.
Then I copied all of it to another AutoOpen and an AutoNew macro.
(I did this because I couldn't figure out if there was a way to
directly record an auto macro.) I don't know if this is adequate
or converely, too much copying. I still haven't created an
AutoExec maco, but I will once I understand what I'm doing.
Thanks for your help. Graham Mayor wrote:
See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm


Andrea wrote:
I was hoping that this was fixed, but the Options settings,
including disabling Reading Layout View, are not holding. I now
have 2 auto open macros macros installed:
OpenOptions.AllowReadingMode = False and ActiveWindow.View.Type
= wdNormalView. I've read the link that you suggest (many
times), but I'm not familiar enough with macros to know exactly
how to go about creating an autonew or autoexec macro. Do I
just name the macro (E.g., for autonew) and then start
recording as I would for a non-auto macro?
Graham Mayor wrote:
It is a fact of life that some users find some settings of the
Options volatile, exacerbated by the addition of poorly written
add-ins that write to the registry. The only sure solution is
to force the settings using auto macros. You may need a
combination of autoopen
autonew
and
autoexec
macros to fix all the likely issues.

Start the macro recorder and set all the options you require.
As you move to each new tab from options, all the settings on
that tab will be recorded. Extract the entries you want and
add them to the macros. Word's vba help explains the use of
the different types of auto
macros http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm also has some
sample code. Andrea wrote:
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.