[quote="steje"]@Jeff Bellune:
If you have questions about what all that stuff I pasted to the post is about, check here for more info. Beyond that, if the conversation turns more this direction rather than specifically 'layout' related, we've probably already digressed a bit from the topic and should start a new one 
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Thanks for the link. I had no idea you could paste the code that way. What I did was to paste your code into the toolbar.dop file that I opened in Notepad and then saved with the new code. I restarted DOpus to get the button to appear.
I have some limited experience programming VB in MS Access, so your code was fairly straightforward. The button worked except for the sort order. I had to add a Set SORTREVERSE=On command to get the sort order to be newest-->oldest. Regardless, that button is good stuff!
To sum up this issue for me and get the thread back OT - until/if Jon fixes this problem with FlatView and saving layouts, your Toggle Flat View button will do the job nicely. I disabled the Columns option in the default Flat View settings, and if I ever need Location information, it's just a Ctrl+Click away. 
Thanks for all of your help, steje.
-Jeff