Word 2016 Draft view, problems with setting default, and display of images and tables

Question

I recently bought a new computer with Word 2016 (Home and Student) on it.  My old Word documents (.doc) open in Compatability Mode and for the most part look the same as they did on my old computer.  I prefer to view them in Draft view, so in Options>Advanced>General I checked ‘Allow opening a document in Draft view’, but this has had no effect – all old and new documents keep opening in Print Layout.  Images in the text show in Draft view in Compatability Mode but when I resave the document as .docx, they only appear in Print Layout; in Draft view they are blank spaces.  Also I used to be able to format tables using ‘Autofit to contents’ but now this only works in Print Layout; when I return to Draft view the formatting goes and I have words with the last letters wrapping onto the line below.  Draft view always used to look exactly the same as Print Layout but without the page divisions, headers and footers, but now images vanish and tables get garbled.  Is there a way to correct all this, please?

Answer 1

Thanks for the reply.  I tried the repair method but the effect was the same.  Feeling defeated, I had a look at Web View and to my surprise the documents all open in this once one has been closed in it, the images are all visible, the headers, footers and page breaks are hidden, and the tables autofit correctly!  It seems that Web View now does what Draft View used to do in Word 97-2003.

Answer 2

Great! I am glad that worked! If you don't have any more questions, feel free to choose a rating and have a great day!

Answer 3

I'd suggest trying to repair the installation.

The instructions to follow to do this are here:

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Repair...