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Document property to stop reading layout
It would be a good to have a document property to stop a document from going
to reading layout when being opened from an email message. I have complex multi-column borchures in word, that when emailed to a client open in reading layout with the presentation all messed up. This presents a poor first impression of my services to my clients unless they realize it's word current view and not the document. As it stand now I'll have to go to a third party application like Acrobat to send my brochures. Thanks for considering the suggestio. -Preston |
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The best you can do is advise recipients (in the covering email) to change
views or (better) suggest that they disable "Allow starting in Reading Layout" on the General tab of Tools | Options. You may find that they are grateful for the information; many users hate Reading Layout but don't know how to disable it. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Preston" wrote in message news It would be a good to have a document property to stop a document from going to reading layout when being opened from an email message. I have complex multi-column borchures in word, that when emailed to a client open in reading layout with the presentation all messed up. This presents a poor first impression of my services to my clients unless they realize it's word current view and not the document. As it stand now I'll have to go to a third party application like Acrobat to send my brochures. Thanks for considering the suggestio. -Preston |
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Although in fact PDF format which Adobe Acrobat creates is a much better
application to distribute brochures in, and you should certainly consider that. If you google for PDF creation or Acrobat clones you will likely find cheaper alternatives, though the cheaper alternatives have less features and I don't know whether any of the free ones might choke on columns. But considering that you will be assured of people seeing what you want if you use PDF, it is probably worth some effort to investigate. PDF will also be seen as more professional than Word, I suspect, if you are worried about the impression your services make. I'm always very impressed when I get forms I can type on and then print out in Adobe Reader, for instance. On 2/20/05 2:18 PM, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: The best you can do is advise recipients (in the covering email) to change views or (better) suggest that they disable "Allow starting in Reading Layout" on the General tab of Tools | Options. You may find that they are grateful for the information; many users hate Reading Layout but don't know how to disable it. "Preston" wrote in message news It would be a good to have a document property to stop a document from going to reading layout when being opened from an email message. I have complex multi-column borchures in word, that when emailed to a client open in reading layout with the presentation all messed up. This presents a poor first impression of my services to my clients unless they realize it's word current view and not the document. As it stand now I'll have to go to a third party application like Acrobat to send my brochures. Thanks for considering the suggestio. -Preston |
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Hi Preston,
FWIW, while the reading layout view may be available to folks with Word 2003, there can be other issues related to viewing Word documents sent to other even if they don't have that version as the reader (person viewing the document) rather than the document author generally has control over how a document is viewed For example - Earlier versions of Word may not display parts of your document that use newer version features. Word's on screen presentation is affected by the readers choice of printer driver (Word is text reflow rather than page layout software). A reader may be using a MS Word viewer program rather than Word or may be using Windows Wordpad and not see all of the features of your document, as they're not fully supported. A reader may use 'Normal' rather than Print Layout view as their usual view or may not open a document full screen or may turn on, as their default, text boundaries, picture placeholders, or editing marks, which would also impact how they see the document attachment. Some folks will not receive a .DOC file attached to an email as that file type may be blocked by security/anitvirus software in companies. ====== "Preston" wrote in message news It would be a good to have a document property to stop a document from going to reading layout when being opened from an email message. I have complex multi-column borchures in word, that when emailed to a client open in reading layout with the presentation all messed up. This presents a poor first impression of my services to my clients unless they realize it's word current view and not the document. As it stand now I'll have to go to a third party application like Acrobat to send my brochures. Thanks for considering the suggestio. -Preston -- Let us know if this helped you, Bob Buckland ?:-) MS Office System Products MVP *Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends* Office 2003 Editions explained http://www.microsoft.com/uk/office/editions.mspx |
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