Using Group Policy Preferences and setting the option ‘Apply once and do not reapply’ to push out the registry setting will make it the default, but let users change it as they please. Word will read this setting at startup, and write to it at shutdown based on what the setting was last set to. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Word\Options Once I knew that, the setting was easy to find. Jeremy Moskowitz from PolicyPak gave me a hint on finding the solution on this one Word sets some of it’s user settings at the time of closing Word, rather than changing an option and pressing ‘OK’. Past papers are a fantastic way to prepare for an exam as you can practise the questions in your own time. Procmon is great for capturing those changes, but I couldn’t see anything when toggling this option. Hence, there would be two (2) practice exams, provided complimentary as per exam schedule mentioned. Normally for Word and Office, a user option is controlled by the registry. I had a business requirement to have it on by default, which proved harder to work out than I thought. … but also choosable from Word’s options under the Display section, called ‘Show all formatting marks’:īy default, this option is off. It’s that backwards P looking thing in the Word ribbon: Microsoft Word 2016 and earlier versions have a handy toggle for ‘Show/Hide paragraph marks and other hidden formatting symbols’.
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