There can also be misconfiguration of the permissions for certain parts of the registry. Or other programs that interfere with Word's ability to write to the registry. This trouble sometimes happens when you have certain third-party add-ins Set dlg = Dialogs(wdDialogToolsOptionsView)īy the way, both your original problem and this one point the the probability that there's something amiss in your Windows registry, because these things should be saved there automatically. That dialog has an argument named DraftFont, which is a boolean (true/false) value. The Dialogs collection includes a member called Dialogs(wdDialogToolsOptionsView), which refers to a tab of the Options dialog that no longer exists (and of course the Options command isn't on the Tools menu, :-(Īctually, it's a throwback to Word 2003 and earlier. Controlling the draft font display is not one of those things.
A lot of the things in the Options dialog are properties of the Options object in VBA, so you can say things like Options.Overtype = False. That one's hidden about as deeply as possible.