Cora
Sun May 20 20:28:00 CDT 2007
Although users do not run this macro daily, however, it is very handy when
they get very creative and start to try to set the options that will either
cause some problems or conflict with firm's standard (like use straight quote
or smart quote, etc.). In reality, this macro is being run more often than I
wish. It is a concern because it takes 7 minutes and my own experience is
that I'll terminate the process when it takes that long. However, I've
figured out the problem due to the prompt of "conneting to printer"; somehow
Word will try to connect to printer in many of the settings, I happened to
set the default printer on my Vista PC to a shared printer on a Windows xp on
network, the connection is slooooooow. When I reset the printer to a local
one (I do not really have one, so I set it to "fax"), then the macro finishes
in a minute. Although it is still not as fast as in 2000/2003, at least it
is acceptable now. I still don't understand the needs to connect to printer
for most of these settings, such as MeasurementUnit, ...etc. It will be
great if any one can tell me how to turn that off ...
"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote:
> If it is only something that is done occasionally for the purpose that you
> mention, why worry about the performance.
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> Hope this helps.
>
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> Doug Robbins - Word MVP
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> "Cora" <Cora@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:0DF33670-9F6D-46A3-AA16-5DACF7520400@microsoft.com...
> > The macro does more than just the settings stored in the "Data" key.
> > Besides, the "Data" key might store something I do not want to "reset".
> > This
> > macro is meant for the end users to "reset" the Word settings to certain
> > standard of the firm whenever they feel need it. Although it will not be
> > hard to write a macro to restore the "Data" key to certain value, I have
> > not
> > found the documentation of what information stored in "Data" key and in
> > what
> > way, it is binary. I do know that it gets corrupted some time. Do you
> > know
> > where I can find the documentation? And maybe I can modify the registry
> > instead of Word Object to speed up the process.
> >
> > Thanks again.
> >
> > "Graham Mayor" wrote:
> >
> >> Why should this macro be necessary? Word 2003 had a few issues with the
> >> registry entries being randomly changed (probably as a result of the data
> >> key being adversely affected by errant add-ins), but I don't recall
> >> seeing
> >> any reports of this occurring with other Word versions. Wouldn't you be
> >> better simply backing up the Word data key from the registry, and forget
> >> your macro?
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> >> Cora wrote:
> >> > I've created a macro to set Word Options to my needs in Word 2007. It
> >> > includes most of the properties settings for Options object and some
> >> > properties settings for Application & Window/View object. It runs
> >> > VERY SLOW. I stepped through each line of codes and found half of the
> >> > settings take several seconds to finish. The similar macro I created
> >> > for Word 97/2000/2002/2003 run very smoothly, took just a second to
> >> > finish all. I've noticed the message "conneting to printer .." shown
> >> > on the status bar when the macro run and tried to turn off
> >> > "Application.ScreenUpdating", no difference. Does any one know how
> >> > to fix this problem?
> >> >
> >> > Thanks in advance.
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