When I open WORD doccuments, it changes the viewing screen and I need to
select Print Layout every time. How do I set print layout?

Documents open in the view in which they were saved. Word is supposed to
open in the view in which it was saved, but I find this is very
inconsistent.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"CTK" wrote in message
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When I open WORD doccuments, it changes the viewing screen and I need to
select Print Layout every time. How do I set print layout?

Suzanne likes to avoid vba but the view can be forced using auto macros.
An autoopen and an autonew macro in normal.dot each containing the lines

With ActiveWindow.View
.Type = wdPrintView
.Zoom.Percentage = 500
.Zoom.Percentage = 100
End With

will open every document at 100% (the zoom to 500% first fixes an occasional
bug that affects cursor size)
See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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


CTK wrote:
When I open WORD doccuments, it changes the viewing screen and I need
to select Print Layout every time. How do I set print layout?

It isn't so much that I "like to avoid it" (though a case might be made for
that) as that I don't know how to write it.

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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.

"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
...
Suzanne likes to avoid vba but the view can be forced using auto macros.
An autoopen and an autonew macro in normal.dot each containing the lines

With ActiveWindow.View
.Type = wdPrintView
.Zoom.Percentage = 500
.Zoom.Percentage = 100
End With

will open every document at 100% (the zoom to 500% first fixes an
occasional
bug that affects cursor size)
See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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


CTK wrote:
When I open WORD doccuments, it changes the viewing screen and I need
to select Print Layout every time. How do I set print layout?