Word will not retain custom / default settings

[donwb]

Win XP Home. MS Office 2003
Normally MS Word would always display the same view as when I left it.
However just recently, it has decided to display settings which I did not
select.
These are, the Vertical and Horizontal Rulers, no Text Boundaries,
and 150% Zoom instead of my "standard" 95%.
I have tried Repair MS Office and Reinstalled Word, neither of which made
any difference.
If I change these settings manually and log out of Word,
they are retained for the current session,
but next time the PC is booted, the incorrect settings re-appear.
Any suggestions please.
donwb

[Graham Mayor]

Word 2003 has a bad habit of losing personal settings stored in the
registry. This can often be fixed (at least for a while) by deleting or
renaming the Word Data key in the registry, but for a more permanent
solution you could apply the settings you require with autoopen and autonew
macros in the normal template - see the relevant section of
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

The particular settings you require in this instance are:

With ActiveWindow
.ActivePane.DisplayRulers = True
.ActivePane.View.Zoom.Percentage = 500
.ActivePane.View.Zoom.Percentage = 95
.DisplayVerticalRuler = True
.View.ShowTextBoundaries = False
End With

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