To prevent document settings from overriding preferences add the following
lines to each of an autoopen and an autonew macro

With ActiveWindow.View
.Type = wdPrintView
.Zoom.PageFit = wdPageFitBestFit
End With

See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

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Sean wrote:
Is there a setting somewhere that would allow me to set the default
zoom when I open a document? Every doc that I open I manually set the
zoom to "Page Width".

Thanks in advance.