[yellowhouse1976]

Thanks for the suggestions but I don't really think it is ok to ask companies
you are submitting proposals to have to do this. I think it is a bad design
on the part of MS and I wish they would change it. I dont like the reading
pane view and dont know anyone who does.

Thanks anyway

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

What you can do is ask the recipients to save the document to their hard
disks before opening it.

Alternatively, ask them to turn off the following options (which are
user-specific):

- "Open e-mail attachments in Full Screen Reading view" in Office button |
Word Options, Popular category (Word 2007).

- "Allow starting in Reading Layout" in Tools | Options, General (Word
2003).

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"yellowhouse1976" wrote in
message ...
Hi

Say you have a TOC in a Word document which you plan to email to someone,
when that someone opens the document MS forces them to look it in the
default
Reading View. When you click escape to look at the document in a 'normal
view' the TOC page numbers all change to 3. Forcing you to update the TOC
to
get the actual page numbers back. Is there any way to safe guard this not
happening when you send a document by email. I am unable to convert the
document to PDF as it is not an acceptable format for the person I am
sending
it to. It seems very unprofessional to expect the person receiving the
document to update the TOC and if they dont know to do this then they will
assume the document is incorrect.

Any ideas please?

Thanks

Jude