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How do I center the page on my screen in MS Word 2010?

Anonymous
2013-07-17T15:04:56+00:00

I recently bought a new computer and also bought a new version of Word (MS Word 2010).  I installed Word 2010 on my new computer last week and immediately noticed that the page was distractingly lopsided, with the white page all the way to the left of the screen, filling about 30% of my monitor, and blank gray space filling the other 70% to the right.  Here's a screenshot:

http://i4.minus.com/iNokEtMV2K9ft.png

On my old computer and with my old version of Word it was always dead-center, so having to now always turn my neck to the left when I want to type or read something in Word is definitely not an improvement.  I looked through Word's help section but couldn't find anything about how to fix this issue.  I thought it might be a design flaw in Word 2010 but a quick image search of "Word 2010" brings up results like this, which clearly show the page in the center of the screen with blank space on either side, so it must be possible somehow: http://www.crystalxp.net/news/img/3270.png

So far the only thing I've found that makes it go to the center of my screen is to crank the zoom all the way up to 160%, but then the bottom half of the page doesn't fit on my screen anymore.  I paid for MS Word but have been using Wordpad instead because of how annoying this issue is so I'd really love a solution to this.  Without zooming in any, how do I get MS Word to center the page like it's supposed to?

Thanks!

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  1. Stefan Blom 339.2K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2017-03-31T12:31:48+00:00

    Indeed, there are some tricks you can use to trigger that. But if you want Word to change the display for you, add a macro such as the following to your Normal template:

    Sub AutoOpen()

    'Macro created by MVP Stefan Blom, March 2017

    'Add to your Normal template--the AutoOpen sub will run

    'each time you open an existing document

    On Error GoTo errhandler

    With ActiveWindow.View

    .Type = 3  'Print Layout view

    .Zoom.Percentage = 100

    .Zoom.PageColumns = 1

    .Zoom.PageRows = 1

    End With

    errhandler:

    Exit Sub

    End Sub

    Start the Visual Basic Editor (Alt+F11). Click View | Project Explorer to show all projects. Click the project called Normal, create a new module and paste in the code above.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-03-31T04:18:12+00:00

    Mine does it too- shabby coding.  I found that if I I clicked the "restore down" button (between the close and minimise button) and then clicked it again, it sorts it out.

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