'view" defaults when opening a file

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Rosetp

When I open a file in Word or Excel I automatically default to "small icons"
and I want to default to "details". I used to be able to change this once
and have the changes "stick" but no longer. I am beginning to despise this
new Office and Vista as well. Please help.
 
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Herb Tyson [MVP]

I find that they stick just fine. Word, Excel, etc. each independently
remember the last Explorer view. If it's not remembering correctly for you,
then there might be an issue of a corrupted registry entry or settings file.

I'm not sure where this is remembered, though. I tried renaming Word's Data
and Options keys in the registry, but that had no effect.
 
R

Rosetp

I change it hundreds of times a day - it doesn't stick. It is extremely
frustrating. Thanks for the info but if anyone knows how to make it stick I
would appreciate it.
 
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Herb Tyson [MVP]

If it's a matter of corruption, then you'd probably find that it works
properly in a new user profile. It's a bit of a pain, but I've had to
abandon corrupted profiles from time to time, finding ultimately that it's
easier than dealing with an intractable problem.

--
Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com
 
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