Thanks - I was just going to reply by saying I looked and there is no option
to do that, but now I look again I see they have hidden it on its own in a
second column - very devious!



"Rae Drysdale" wrote in message
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Tools | Options | General and uncheck the box Allow Starting on Reading
Layout (at the top right).
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Rae Drysdale


"Lorne" wrote:

How can I set word up so when I open a document it is always in print
layout
view?

At the moment it often opens documents in reading layout view but I never
want to use this format and would like to disable it completely.

Using Word 2003 in Office 2003.