Re: Word document keeps opening in Notebook layout

From: Oz Springs (oz.springs_at_dsl.pipex.com)
Date: 11/07/04 

Date: 7 Nov 2004 07:29:25 -0800

> > Daiya Mitchell and Matt Neuberg wrote:
> >
> >> You can force it with some macros, but you may not want to put macros in
> >> your template, and it shouldn't be happening in the first place...
> >>
> >> It should open in the view it was last saved in
> >
> > Really? My impression was that documents open in the view you were last
> > using (not necessarily for that document).... If I'm wrong about this,
> > it just shows how confusing this issue is! m.

Thanks for the replies on this and apologies for taking so long to
reply. There's a long turnaround time for this list (hours and hours)
so in the meantime I re-created the document - the client was waiting.

Obviously the document had a bug because I never turned on the
NoteBook at any time (Word did that for me), though the document did
have about 11 sections.

This is the second bug I have had in a week in Word 2004 documents. I
have been using Word since version 3 (1989) and have had only 3
corrupted documents in all that time - one irrecoverable one I recall
did have lots of sections too. I hope that my recent experiences are
not an indication of the future. If so, Mellel or Nisus or Ragtime
will become my word processor.

I am finding Word is getting exasperating with features, although
welcome for some uses, that are utterly irritating in most occasions.
Maybe there is time for some user choice, eg

1. Being able to set the startup view for each document, and even
switch off some views. This will be handy because:

(a) text in text boxes is still invisible in Galley or Normal view and
can still easily be deleted entirely by removing the paragraph mark to
which the text box is anchored.

(b) opening up a document in the last-used view for another document
may not be appropriate for the newly-opened document

(c) Users will not have to trash a document they spent hours creating
simply because it kept opening in an inappropriate view.

2. Being able to switch OLE bookmark/field creation if we so choose.
OFF should be the default.

I am sure there are some other features which other users would like
to switch on or off.

Kind regards

Oz

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