The "White space between pages" option is not necessarily a setting
stored in Normal.dot - it is stored in the Registry. (Well...sort of,
read on <grin>)
The "White space between pages" option is one I've been recently
investigating since it's a bit quirky. It appears to be stored in the
Registry *and* in the document. So you can open Normal.dot, change the
"White space" option, and save Normal.dot, however Word will create
new documents based on the last view selected.
IOW, if you turn on the "white space" option in Normal.dot, save and
close, create a new document, turn off the "white space" option, and
then exit Word, upon restarting Word will not use the setting stored
in Normal.dot. Instead it will use the last view stored in the
Registry which is updated when you exit Word. Now, if you open
Normal.dot then you will see the white space suppressed but that
doesn't set the default behavior of new documents.
So far, what I have found is if the "white space" continues to be
turned off/on then here are the likely causes:
- It was inadvertently turned off simply by clicking the grey area
between pages while in Print Layout view. (very easy to do - I do it
myself)
- Previously created documents were saved with white space suppressed.
Here's what I think typically happens, it gets inadvertently turned
off while working on a document (document 1), another document
(document 2) is created and it is turned back on. Document 2 is
closed, then Microsoft Word is closed. Document 1, with white space
suppressed, is the last document to be closed prior to exiting Word
and the settings in use in last closed document is updated in the
Registry. So the next time Word starts it suppresses the display of
white space.
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