Default font and margin setting

[Vejane]

After I have changed and saved a new default font and margins, when I open
Word up again, the setting have reverted to the previous ones.

 

[garfield-n-odie]

What version of Word? How are you changing the default font and margins?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Do you by any chance have Adobe Acrobat 7.0 installed?

 

[Vejane]

I have word 2003, and I am changing them by going to format-font, setting the
font and clicking on default. I change the margins through page set up then
clicking default.

 

[Vejane]

Yes, I so.

Do you by any chance have Adobe Acrobat 7.0 installed?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Ah, this is a newly discovered conflict between the Acrobat 7 PDFMaker.dot
and Word. Apparently the Acrobat add-in sets the Saved property of
Normal.dot to True so Word doesn't think it needs saving. You can enforce
your changes in one of two ways:

1. Open Normal.dot directly, make the changes, and save.

2. Make the changes in a document based on Normal.dot, then use Save All
(press Shift while clicking on File to find this on the menu) to save the
template along with the document).

 

[Vejane]

Thank you. That did the trick. Now I have a similar problem. A custom toolbar
I set up disappears after I close word. I tried saving it in the normal
template, but that doesn't work.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You'd be better advised to start a new thread for this question, with an
appropriate subject line. Word 2003 is very slipshod about retaining display
settings, and a macro may be required.

 

[joepd]

I am a frustrated Word 2003 user who also has Acrobat 6.0 Professional about
to install 7.0. I have gone to Windows Explorer>Tools>Folder Options>Show
Hidden Files then did a search for normal.dot and get "does not exist". Is
that possible? and if so why. I can't change anything and hope for it to
last. What a mess!

 

[Charles Kenyon]

Are you also showing system files?