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.
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.
"Rosetp" <Rosetp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> 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.
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.
"Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Herb Tyson MS MVP
> Author of the Word 2007 Bible
> Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
> Web: http://www.herbtyson.com
>
>
> "Rosetp" <Rosetp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:054E116E-8FD5-44E9-9459-20C9521C3B87@microsoft.com...
> > 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.
>
>
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.
"Rosetp" <Rosetp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3BAD9B97-C401-4BA0-AF93-147CC047C3E6@microsoft.com...
>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.
>
> "Herb Tyson [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> --
>> Herb Tyson MS MVP
>> Author of the Word 2007 Bible
>> Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
>> Web: http://www.herbtyson.com
>>
>>
>> "Rosetp" <Rosetp@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:054E116E-8FD5-44E9-9459-20C9521C3B87@microsoft.com...
>> > 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.
>>
>>
'view" defaults when opening a file 
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