[devistated]

Is there some option that I can set so that Word always starts a document
(old or new) in Draft view?

I cannot find such an option. So I am constantly going into the View menu
and choosing Draft for every document that I open to work on.

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Right click on the Status Bar (at the bottom of the screen) and check the
"View Shortcuts" item. Then you will just need one click to change the
view.

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"devistated" wrote in message
...
Is there some option that I can set so that Word always starts a document
(old or new) in Draft view?

I cannot find such an option. So I am constantly going into the View menu
and choosing Draft for every document that I open to work on.

[Graham Mayor]

It should hold the last used view, but you can force any view with a pair of
autorunning macros saved in the normal template eg

Sub AutoNew()
ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdNormalView
End Sub

Sub AutoOpen()
ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdNormalView
End Sub


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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




devistated wrote:
Is there some option that I can set so that Word always starts a
document (old or new) in Draft view?

I cannot find such an option. So I am constantly going into the View
menu and choosing Draft for every document that I open to work on.

[Stefan Blom]

Note that you may have to enable the "Allow opening a document in Draft
view" option in Word Options, Advanced category (under the "General"
heading) for this to work properly.

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Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
It should hold the last used view, but you can force any view with a pair
of autorunning macros saved in the normal template eg

Sub AutoNew()
ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdNormalView
End Sub

Sub AutoOpen()
ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdNormalView
End Sub


--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org




devistated wrote:
Is there some option that I can set so that Word always starts a
document (old or new) in Draft view?

I cannot find such an option. So I am constantly going into the View
menu and choosing Draft for every document that I open to work on.

[devistated]

This is the answer that I was looking for -- no macros needed. The saves were
not holding the last view.

I had looked in the Word Options, Advanced list but had looked in the
"Display" options and had not looked at the "General" options.

Thank you, Stefan.

"Stefan Blom" wrote:

Note that you may have to enable the "Allow opening a document in Draft
view" option in Word Options, Advanced category (under the "General"
heading) for this to work properly.