[louise]

Win XP Pro SP3 and Office 2003

I just got a widescreen monitor and have been looking
forward to having two Word documents open side by side so
that I could refer to one while I write the other.

But I'm not having much success. When I open the two
documents and resize them so that they fit next to each
other, the text isn't reformatted and I have to use the
horizontal scrollbar on each document to read to the end of
each line - obviously, this is not what I'd hoped for :-)

I see that I can open the documents horizontally, one on top
and the other on bottom. Is this the only way to do what I
want or is there a trick for opening them side by side
without extensive use of the horizontal scrollbar?

Thanks.

Louise

[Cindy M.]

Hi Louise,

When I open the two
documents and resize them so that they fit next to each
other, the text isn't reformatted and I have to use the
horizontal scrollbar on each document to read to the end of
each line - obviously, this is not what I'd hoped for :-)

Try changing the ZOOM to adjust the text size (visually).
View/Zoom.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun
17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[louise]

Cindy M. wrote:
Hi Louise,

When I open the two
documents and resize them so that they fit next to each
other, the text isn't reformatted and I have to use the
horizontal scrollbar on each document to read to the end of
each line - obviously, this is not what I'd hoped for :-)

Try changing the ZOOM to adjust the text size (visually).
View/Zoom.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun
17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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I just tried that and I have to go down to 50% to be able to
not have to scroll horizontally. Needless to say, I can't
read it at 50%.

This is a 21" LCD.

It seems to me that the "solution" would be that Word would
automatically reformat the text for the reduced size of the
window - is that my dream - or is that possible to achieve?

Thanks again.

Louise

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Word does do that in Reading Layout view (Onscreen Reading view in Word
2007), but it is not WYSIWYG.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"louise" wrote in message
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Cindy M. wrote:
Hi Louise,

When I open the two documents and resize them so that they fit next to
each other, the text isn't reformatted and I have to use the horizontal
scrollbar on each document to read to the end of each line - obviously,
this is not what I'd hoped for :-)

Try changing the ZOOM to adjust the text size (visually). View/Zoom.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or
reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-)

I just tried that and I have to go down to 50% to be able to not have to
scroll horizontally. Needless to say, I can't read it at 50%.

This is a 21" LCD.

It seems to me that the "solution" would be that Word would automatically
reformat the text for the reduced size of the window - is that my dream -
or is that possible to achieve?

Thanks again.

Louise