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by alpinehaddock 1 view

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Microsoft Word has in the Tools -> Options dialogue box a nasty little checkbox to disable features introduced after Word 6.0/95 or Word 97. I do not wish this to be checked. Easy enough, you think?

No matter how many times I uncheck this box (including ensuring that it is also unchecked in Normal.dot) it keeps rechecking itself and then not letting me (eg) align text within a table, or save hyperlinks. And if it's in a document that already has these features, it waits until I exit and then says that some things won't be saved because they're not compatible with Word 6!

When I turn it off it goes away for the immediate session of Word, possibly for the next one but then comes back. I am going slowly insane.

Does anybody know of a way of completely and irrevocably turning this option off?

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by brenda

Did you ever find a resolution to your post about turning off Word's disable features introduced after setting? I have the same annoying problem and haven't been able to find a solution. It just does not stay unchecked.

by ic-it

you uncheck it and then do a save as, insuring you save as a newer Word type document?

by gautampatel

Hi,

Sorry for being so late on this. I had the same problem and nearly went mad trying to sort it out.

The feature is enabled for the application by default. Therefore it has to be toggled off when Word starts.

The only way to do this, is to get into Word's Microsoft Visual Basic editor (you must have it installed), find the autoexec module and add the following lines to it:

With Application.Options
.DisableFeaturesbyDefault = False
End With

This has to go between the Sub AutoExec() and End Sub lines.

There's no other way to do this, as far as I know; and this way works perfectly.

Word actually has a whole bunch of options for this feature (at least four). The one above is the PARENT or top level option that trigges the feature on or off. If you have it on, there are other features you can specify to run at startup. I have it off.

Gautam

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