I go to View Show and select buttons but it never sticks.  Once I close the file and reopen it, it no longer shows them. Can I make that setting stick?

I'm not sure I'm following you.  Are you saying you can't see the little blue button on top of your button in layout mode?

When I select View it gives me options to view things such as tooltips, sliding objects, popover buttons.  One option is buttons like script buttons which turn blue.  When I check that on, it comes on and displays all the objects with scrips attached.  But it does not stay on as the default instead I have to check it on constantly.  I want it on as default.  Thank you for asking Steve.🙂