View One Page @ 100% in Word 2010

I have to admit I am confused why there is confusion in that thread. I have a larger monitor at home, and with Word 2007 (at home) my Print Layout never reverts to a Mutli-Page View. In Word 2010 (at work) the default is to set the screen to a mutli-page view if the pages can fit side by side.

Word 2010 is the first time I have seen Word force the mutli-page view in that way. There is a workaround, so that any MVP confused by the question can see what is being requested

To see how things have always worked for me with Word, and to workaround the mentioned issue:

• Go to the View ribbon
• Set your Print Layout view to whatever Zoom level you want
• Click on Web Layout
• Click on Print Layout

The screen will now show one page at whatever zoom level you wish. That is exactly how Word has always functioned for me, and since it can be set in that manner I am going to go out on a limb and call this 'feature' a bug in the way multi-page view is working. This even works to fix the 'aligned to the left' issue some people mention.

The VBA macro for AutoOpen/AutoNew (in normal.dotm) to change the page display to 'fix' the issue is easy, but AutoExec causes an error 4248: "This command is not available because no document is open":

Sub AutoOpen()

ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdWebView

If ActiveWindow.View.SplitSpecial = wdPaneNone Then

ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Type = wdPrintView

Else

ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdPrintView

End If

End Sub

Sub AutoNew()

ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdWebView

If ActiveWindow.View.SplitSpecial = wdPaneNone Then

ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Type = wdPrintView

Else

ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdPrintView

End If

End Sub

I figured out a way!

Open WORD

Open the navigation pane and place on the left side of the window -

Go to View

Zoom at 100% -- a single document will be in the center of the window at 100%!

It will remain so for all new documents

There's been a detailed discussion on this point in the forum over the past week:

http://social.answers.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wordcreate/thread/c216b55d-6bab-4605-9990-83fa91dbd937

Personally, I can't think of anything to add to the on-topic observations presented there. I believe a macro solution is the only way to achieve what you ask if you're not willing to change the window size of the Word application or your screen resolution, as has been suggested there.

Cindy Meister, VSTO/Word MVP