Our organization has noticed problems with using the Reading Layout View in
Word 2003 as the default view for Word attachments sent via email. Documents
containing tables are not formatted as intended by the sender. Consequently,
the sender cannot expect a consistent product when discussing attachments
that they have sent to a recipient and must spend additional time explaining
to the recipient (assuming both parties are computer literate enough to
handle this task) how to switch to the print layout view. Perhaps an
intermediate dialog would be helpful here when the attachment pops up in
Reading Layout View. The dialog might make it easy to toggle the view on or
off, or perhaps have the attachment start in print layout view and just make
the reading layout view an option in a dialog that pops up when the
attachment is opened.

Thanks for listening.

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