Horizontal Ruler

[Marty]

My horizontal ruler used to be visible when any word document opened. One
day it decided to permanently disappear. I can get it back with View, Ruler.
My question, is how to get the ruler to be visible by default?

 

[SVC]

Open a blank document, click View > Ruler, then Click File, Page Setup and
click Default. Say Yes to allow changes to the Normal.dot template. Now you
should have your ruler back.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

View settings of this type are not, I think, saved in Normal.dot, so I can't
see that this would help.

 

[SVC]

I've tried this with my Normal.dot template and it works. It is also
successful in retaining the Thumbnail view, plus any of the other layout
views (Web, Outline, etc.), as well as the Zoom level. I cannot, however,
find any documenation of this on the Microsoft Knowledge Base. I'll check on
the developers page and see if I can find anything.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I wish I thought it would help, as my ruler has a dismaying habit of going
AWOL.

 

[Marty]

It worked perfectly, thanks!!

Open a blank document, click View > Ruler, then Click File, Page Setup and
click Default. Say Yes to allow changes to the Normal.dot template. Now you
should have your ruler back.