Vertical Scrolling Disabled

Question

Every time I start a new document in MS Word 2013, the vertical scrolling is disabled. I have to go through the hassle of selecting "Options" from the file menu, clicking "Advanced," and then scrolling down to the "Display" section and selecting "Show vertical scroll bar." 

Is there a way to make vertical scrolling a default setting? Or at least a way to customize my toolbar to allow me to display the vertical scroll bar without going through the elaborate mechanism of going through the "Options" menu?

Answer 1

Follow these steps:

Open the Normal.dotm template as a document (not a new document based on the template). The easy way to do this is to press Alt+F11 to open the macro editor, press Ctrl+G to open the Immediate window in the editor, type NormalTemplate.OpenAsDocument in that window and press Enter. Then close the macro editor.

Go to the Options dialog and check the option as you described.

In the body of the template, type any character and backspace to delete it. That "dirties" the template so that Word will be forced to save it. Then press Ctrl+S to save, and close Word.

From now on, the scroll bar will be present.

Answer 2

Jay,

This looks great. I think it worked! Thank you for your time and help!

Jonathan

Answer 3

Hi

I think it is an update bug. It has been happening the last three weeks at least to me. The option just removes itself on a continual basis.

Very annoying!

Regards

janinecrutch.com