Re: My amnesiac Word

This sounds like a corrupt data key.
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/customization/datakeysettingscontent.htm
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Charles Kenyon

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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
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See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Albédo" <ac.albedo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hello.
> I've been using the French version of Word 2002 for a few
> years, and suddenly the program can't seem to remember my
> personal, user-defined settings (such as "Always make a
> back-up copy every x minutes", etc.). I mean, it may keep
> those settings for some time, like as long as I don't leave
> Windows and reboot, but if I do and then relaunch Word, all
> my settings have been lost.
> I asked for help on French forums, but no-one really seems
> to know how to help me out (except for recording some macro
> and launching it each time I find Word has gone amnesiac).
> I keep antispyware programs and such up-to-date, so the
> problem must lie within Word (and/or XP) itself.
> I uninstalled 2002 using ork.exe, and installed Word 2003...
> but it's still the same, unfortunately. :-(
> I'd be utterly grateful to anyone who'd have heard of such a
> strange behavior on the part of Word...and of course would
> let me know how to repair this.
> Thanks in advance.
> a.
>
>


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