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I have several documents that I use over and over, usually several times per
week. Some are wide, one is landscape, and some are tall and skinny. I would like to be able to open the tall skinny one so it displays appropriately and the wide one so *it* displays nice and wide. Is there any way to set a particular document so that it opens the way I want it to instead of the way it wants to? -- Thanks, Ray |
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See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/SaveViewAndZoom.htm
-- 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. "Ray" wrote in message ... I have several documents that I use over and over, usually several times per week. Some are wide, one is landscape, and some are tall and skinny. I would like to be able to open the tall skinny one so it displays appropriately and the wide one so *it* displays nice and wide. Is there any way to set a particular document so that it opens the way I want it to instead of the way it wants to? -- Thanks, Ray |
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I read that article and it does not apply to what I ask. I'm not interested
in changing the normal.dot template. I'm interested (as I stated) in making an existing document open the same size as it was when I closed it. Document "A" I want to open really wide so I can see all the columns in the wide table in it, and Document "B" I want to open tall and skinny to match the content that is in it. These are documents I use over and over many times per week. I had ask if there is a way to set a *particular document* (not all documents - i.e. normal.dot) to open a certain way. Thanks Ray "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/SaveViewAndZoom.htm -- 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. "Ray" wrote in message ... I have several documents that I use over and over, usually several times per week. Some are wide, one is landscape, and some are tall and skinny. I would like to be able to open the tall skinny one so it displays appropriately and the wide one so *it* displays nice and wide. Is there any way to set a particular document so that it opens the way I want it to instead of the way it wants to? -- Thanks, Ray |
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The zoom is saved with the document, so if you are the only editor, there
shouldn't be a problem. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Ray" wrote in message ... I read that article and it does not apply to what I ask. I'm not interested in changing the normal.dot template. I'm interested (as I stated) in making an existing document open the same size as it was when I closed it. Document "A" I want to open really wide so I can see all the columns in the wide table in it, and Document "B" I want to open tall and skinny to match the content that is in it. These are documents I use over and over many times per week. I had ask if there is a way to set a *particular document* (not all documents - i.e. normal.dot) to open a certain way. Thanks Ray "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/SaveViewAndZoom.htm -- 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. "Ray" wrote in message ... I have several documents that I use over and over, usually several times per week. Some are wide, one is landscape, and some are tall and skinny. I would like to be able to open the tall skinny one so it displays appropriately and the wide one so *it* displays nice and wide. Is there any way to set a particular document so that it opens the way I want it to instead of the way it wants to? -- Thanks, Ray |
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The article applies to specific documents as well. The point is that it
should (barring any AutoOpen macros) open at the size and in the view at which it was saved, but note that you have to actually save it, which means that something has to have changed. -- 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. "Ray" wrote in message ... I read that article and it does not apply to what I ask. I'm not interested in changing the normal.dot template. I'm interested (as I stated) in making an existing document open the same size as it was when I closed it. Document "A" I want to open really wide so I can see all the columns in the wide table in it, and Document "B" I want to open tall and skinny to match the content that is in it. These are documents I use over and over many times per week. I had ask if there is a way to set a *particular document* (not all documents - i.e. normal.dot) to open a certain way. Thanks Ray "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/SaveViewAndZoom.htm -- 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. "Ray" wrote in message ... I have several documents that I use over and over, usually several times per week. Some are wide, one is landscape, and some are tall and skinny. I would like to be able to open the tall skinny one so it displays appropriately and the wide one so *it* displays nice and wide. Is there any way to set a particular document so that it opens the way I want it to instead of the way it wants to? -- Thanks, Ray |
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Suzanne, that doesn't work. Here is what I did: I opened the
document. I placed a period in an area where there is no other text then I hit the space bar twice. I then changed the color of the period (.) to white so it is invisible against a white background. That allowed me to leave the change in place, so there was no doubt in my mind that Word had to see it as a change. I then grabbed the corner of the window and reduced it to the size I wanted it to open as. I clicked FileSave to close the document. I then did the exact same thing with a copy of that original document except at the end I hit Ctrl+S to save it. So I saved two instances of the same thing using two save methods. I then opened the two document and they opened wide across the page, not tall and skinny like I had closed them. I have not installed an AutoOpen macros. I hope you understand how I could have thought that the article you sent me to was about the global template: Because it was so careful to be specific that, it is about the normal.dot document. Thanks for your attempt. Best, Ray "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... The article applies to specific documents as well. The point is that it should (barring any AutoOpen macros) open at the size and in the view at which it was saved, but note that you have to actually save it, which means that something has to have changed. -- 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. "Ray" wrote in message ... I read that article and it does not apply to what I ask. I'm not interested in changing the normal.dot template. I'm interested (as I stated) in making an existing document open the same size as it was when I closed it. Document "A" I want to open really wide so I can see all the columns in the wide table in it, and Document "B" I want to open tall and skinny to match the content that is in it. These are documents I use over and over many times per week. I had ask if there is a way to set a *particular document* (not all documents - i.e. normal.dot) to open a certain way. Thanks Ray "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/SaveViewAndZoom.htm -- 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. "Ray" wrote in message ... I have several documents that I use over and over, usually several times per week. Some are wide, one is landscape, and some are tall and skinny. I would like to be able to open the tall skinny one so it displays appropriately and the wide one so *it* displays nice and wide. Is there any way to set a particular document so that it opens the way I want it to instead of the way it wants to? -- Thanks, Ray |
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You don't actually have to leave the change in place. Just pressing the
spacebar and then backspace will usually suffice--anything to activate the Undo arrow. But what you're describing is not the Zoom ratio but the size of the window, and that cannot be saved with the document. You can only save that for Word overall. I'm sorry I misunderstood what you wanted. I run Word maximized for all documents, so the amount of height and width I see depends on the Zoom setting. -- 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. "Ray" wrote in message ... Suzanne, that doesn't work. Here is what I did: I opened the document. I placed a period in an area where there is no other text then I hit the space bar twice. I then changed the color of the period (.) to white so it is invisible against a white background. That allowed me to leave the change in place, so there was no doubt in my mind that Word had to see it as a change. I then grabbed the corner of the window and reduced it to the size I wanted it to open as. I clicked FileSave to close the document. I then did the exact same thing with a copy of that original document except at the end I hit Ctrl+S to save it. So I saved two instances of the same thing using two save methods. I then opened the two document and they opened wide across the page, not tall and skinny like I had closed them. I have not installed an AutoOpen macros. I hope you understand how I could have thought that the article you sent me to was about the global template: Because it was so careful to be specific that, it is about the normal.dot document. Thanks for your attempt. Best, Ray "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... The article applies to specific documents as well. The point is that it should (barring any AutoOpen macros) open at the size and in the view at which it was saved, but note that you have to actually save it, which means that something has to have changed. -- 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. "Ray" wrote in message ... I read that article and it does not apply to what I ask. I'm not interested in changing the normal.dot template. I'm interested (as I stated) in making an existing document open the same size as it was when I closed it. Document "A" I want to open really wide so I can see all the columns in the wide table in it, and Document "B" I want to open tall and skinny to match the content that is in it. These are documents I use over and over many times per week. I had ask if there is a way to set a *particular document* (not all documents - i.e. normal.dot) to open a certain way. Thanks Ray "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/SaveViewAndZoom.htm -- 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. "Ray" wrote in message ... I have several documents that I use over and over, usually several times per week. Some are wide, one is landscape, and some are tall and skinny. I would like to be able to open the tall skinny one so it displays appropriately and the wide one so *it* displays nice and wide. Is there any way to set a particular document so that it opens the way I want it to instead of the way it wants to? -- Thanks, Ray |
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Well shucks! Thanks for trying. I don't know what it is, but I know there
is some way to do it, because a few weeks ago everything was opening just about the right size to fully see the width of a page (8-1/2") at 100% and now everything is opening much, much wider, so that I have to grab the side handles and reign it in a good bit to work with two open documents at once. I'm pretty sure that God doesn't look down and decide to let all my documents open wide one month and tall and skinny the next. I'm pretty sure there is some little something I've done, and if I did, I should be able to do it again. Ray "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... You don't actually have to leave the change in place. Just pressing the spacebar and then backspace will usually suffice--anything to activate the Undo arrow. But what you're describing is not the Zoom ratio but the size of the window, and that cannot be saved with the document. You can only save that for Word overall. I'm sorry I misunderstood what you wanted. I run Word maximized for all documents, so the amount of height and width I see depends on the Zoom setting. -- 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. "Ray" wrote in message ... Suzanne, that doesn't work. Here is what I did: I opened the document. I placed a period in an area where there is no other text then I hit the space bar twice. I then changed the color of the period (.) to white so it is invisible against a white background. That allowed me to leave the change in place, so there was no doubt in my mind that Word had to see it as a change. I then grabbed the corner of the window and reduced it to the size I wanted it to open as. I clicked FileSave to close the document. I then did the exact same thing with a copy of that original document except at the end I hit Ctrl+S to save it. So I saved two instances of the same thing using two save methods. I then opened the two document and they opened wide across the page, not tall and skinny like I had closed them. I have not installed an AutoOpen macros. I hope you understand how I could have thought that the article you sent me to was about the global template: Because it was so careful to be specific that, it is about the normal.dot document. Thanks for your attempt. Best, Ray "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... The article applies to specific documents as well. The point is that it should (barring any AutoOpen macros) open at the size and in the view at which it was saved, but note that you have to actually save it, which means that something has to have changed. -- 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. "Ray" wrote in message ... I read that article and it does not apply to what I ask. I'm not interested in changing the normal.dot template. I'm interested (as I stated) in making an existing document open the same size as it was when I closed it. Document "A" I want to open really wide so I can see all the columns in the wide table in it, and Document "B" I want to open tall and skinny to match the content that is in it. These are documents I use over and over many times per week. I had ask if there is a way to set a *particular document* (not all documents - i.e. normal.dot) to open a certain way. Thanks Ray "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/SaveViewAndZoom.htm -- 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. "Ray" wrote in message ... I have several documents that I use over and over, usually several times per week. Some are wide, one is landscape, and some are tall and skinny. I would like to be able to open the tall skinny one so it displays appropriately and the wide one so *it* displays nice and wide. Is there any way to set a particular document so that it opens the way I want it to instead of the way it wants to? -- Thanks, Ray |
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Ordinarily Word will reopen with the same window size/shape you were using
when you closed it (assuming you have it set to open in a Normal window rather than Maximized), but if you use Word as your email editor in Outlook, that might be a factor. -- 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. "Ray" wrote in message ... Well shucks! Thanks for trying. I don't know what it is, but I know there is some way to do it, because a few weeks ago everything was opening just about the right size to fully see the width of a page (8-1/2") at 100% and now everything is opening much, much wider, so that I have to grab the side handles and reign it in a good bit to work with two open documents at once. I'm pretty sure that God doesn't look down and decide to let all my documents open wide one month and tall and skinny the next. I'm pretty sure there is some little something I've done, and if I did, I should be able to do it again. Ray "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... You don't actually have to leave the change in place. Just pressing the spacebar and then backspace will usually suffice--anything to activate the Undo arrow. But what you're describing is not the Zoom ratio but the size of the window, and that cannot be saved with the document. You can only save that for Word overall. I'm sorry I misunderstood what you wanted. I run Word maximized for all documents, so the amount of height and width I see depends on the Zoom setting. -- 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. "Ray" wrote in message ... Suzanne, that doesn't work. Here is what I did: I opened the document. I placed a period in an area where there is no other text then I hit the space bar twice. I then changed the color of the period (.) to white so it is invisible against a white background. That allowed me to leave the change in place, so there was no doubt in my mind that Word had to see it as a change. I then grabbed the corner of the window and reduced it to the size I wanted it to open as. I clicked FileSave to close the document. I then did the exact same thing with a copy of that original document except at the end I hit Ctrl+S to save it. So I saved two instances of the same thing using two save methods. I then opened the two document and they opened wide across the page, not tall and skinny like I had closed them. I have not installed an AutoOpen macros. I hope you understand how I could have thought that the article you sent me to was about the global template: Because it was so careful to be specific that, it is about the normal.dot document. Thanks for your attempt. Best, Ray "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... The article applies to specific documents as well. The point is that it should (barring any AutoOpen macros) open at the size and in the view at which it was saved, but note that you have to actually save it, which means that something has to have changed. -- 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. "Ray" wrote in message ... I read that article and it does not apply to what I ask. I'm not interested in changing the normal.dot template. I'm interested (as I stated) in making an existing document open the same size as it was when I closed it. Document "A" I want to open really wide so I can see all the columns in the wide table in it, and Document "B" I want to open tall and skinny to match the content that is in it. These are documents I use over and over many times per week. I had ask if there is a way to set a *particular document* (not all documents - i.e. normal.dot) to open a certain way. Thanks Ray "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/SaveViewAndZoom.htm -- 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. "Ray" wrote in message ... I have several documents that I use over and over, usually several times per week. Some are wide, one is landscape, and some are tall and skinny. I would like to be able to open the tall skinny one so it displays appropriately and the wide one so *it* displays nice and wide. Is there any way to set a particular document so that it opens the way I want it to instead of the way it wants to? -- Thanks, Ray |
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I just checked to make sure and I am not using Word as email editor. I am
using Outlook for email. What a bummer! (is that even a word?) Ray "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Ordinarily Word will reopen with the same window size/shape you were using when you closed it (assuming you have it set to open in a Normal window rather than Maximized), but if you use Word as your email editor in Outlook, that might be a factor. -- 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. "Ray" wrote in message ... Well shucks! Thanks for trying. I don't know what it is, but I know there is some way to do it, because a few weeks ago everything was opening just about the right size to fully see the width of a page (8-1/2") at 100% and now everything is opening much, much wider, so that I have to grab the side handles and reign it in a good bit to work with two open documents at once. I'm pretty sure that God doesn't look down and decide to let all my documents open wide one month and tall and skinny the next. I'm pretty sure there is some little something I've done, and if I did, I should be able to do it again. Ray "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... You don't actually have to leave the change in place. Just pressing the spacebar and then backspace will usually suffice--anything to activate the Undo arrow. But what you're describing is not the Zoom ratio but the size of the window, and that cannot be saved with the document. You can only save that for Word overall. I'm sorry I misunderstood what you wanted. I run Word maximized for all documents, so the amount of height and width I see depends on the Zoom setting. -- 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. "Ray" wrote in message ... Suzanne, that doesn't work. Here is what I did: I opened the document. I placed a period in an area where there is no other text then I hit the space bar twice. I then changed the color of the period (.) to white so it is invisible against a white background. That allowed me to leave the change in place, so there was no doubt in my mind that Word had to see it as a change. I then grabbed the corner of the window and reduced it to the size I wanted it to open as. I clicked FileSave to close the document. I then did the exact same thing with a copy of that original document except at the end I hit Ctrl+S to save it. So I saved two instances of the same thing using two save methods. I then opened the two document and they opened wide across the page, not tall and skinny like I had closed them. I have not installed an AutoOpen macros. I hope you understand how I could have thought that the article you sent me to was about the global template: Because it was so careful to be specific that, it is about the normal.dot document. Thanks for your attempt. Best, Ray "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... The article applies to specific documents as well. The point is that it should (barring any AutoOpen macros) open at the size and in the view at which it was saved, but note that you have to actually save it, which means that something has to have changed. -- 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. "Ray" wrote in message ... I read that article and it does not apply to what I ask. I'm not interested in changing the normal.dot template. I'm interested (as I stated) in making an existing document open the same size as it was when I closed it. Document "A" I want to open really wide so I can see all the columns in the wide table in it, and Document "B" I want to open tall and skinny to match the content that is in it. These are documents I use over and over many times per week. I had ask if there is a way to set a *particular document* (not all documents - i.e. normal.dot) to open a certain way. Thanks Ray "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/SaveViewAndZoom.htm -- 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. "Ray" wrote in message ... I have several documents that I use over and over, usually several times per week. Some are wide, one is landscape, and some are tall and skinny. I would like to be able to open the tall skinny one so it displays appropriately and the wide one so *it* displays nice and wide. Is there any way to set a particular document so that it opens the way I want it to instead of the way it wants to? -- Thanks, Ray |
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Yeah, it's a word, and it sounds like the right one. I'm out of ideas, but
perhaps someone else can help. I really don't have much experience with this because I do run Word maximized. -- 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. "Ray" wrote in message ... I just checked to make sure and I am not using Word as email editor. I am using Outlook for email. What a bummer! (is that even a word?) Ray "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Ordinarily Word will reopen with the same window size/shape you were using when you closed it (assuming you have it set to open in a Normal window rather than Maximized), but if you use Word as your email editor in Outlook, that might be a factor. -- 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. "Ray" wrote in message ... Well shucks! Thanks for trying. I don't know what it is, but I know there is some way to do it, because a few weeks ago everything was opening just about the right size to fully see the width of a page (8-1/2") at 100% and now everything is opening much, much wider, so that I have to grab the side handles and reign it in a good bit to work with two open documents at once. I'm pretty sure that God doesn't look down and decide to let all my documents open wide one month and tall and skinny the next. I'm pretty sure there is some little something I've done, and if I did, I should be able to do it again. Ray "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... You don't actually have to leave the change in place. Just pressing the spacebar and then backspace will usually suffice--anything to activate the Undo arrow. But what you're describing is not the Zoom ratio but the size of the window, and that cannot be saved with the document. You can only save that for Word overall. I'm sorry I misunderstood what you wanted. I run Word maximized for all documents, so the amount of height and width I see depends on the Zoom setting. -- 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. "Ray" wrote in message ... Suzanne, that doesn't work. Here is what I did: I opened the document. I placed a period in an area where there is no other text then I hit the space bar twice. I then changed the color of the period (.) to white so it is invisible against a white background. That allowed me to leave the change in place, so there was no doubt in my mind that Word had to see it as a change. I then grabbed the corner of the window and reduced it to the size I wanted it to open as. I clicked FileSave to close the document. I then did the exact same thing with a copy of that original document except at the end I hit Ctrl+S to save it. So I saved two instances of the same thing using two save methods. I then opened the two document and they opened wide across the page, not tall and skinny like I had closed them. I have not installed an AutoOpen macros. I hope you understand how I could have thought that the article you sent me to was about the global template: Because it was so careful to be specific that, it is about the normal.dot document. Thanks for your attempt. Best, Ray "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... The article applies to specific documents as well. The point is that it should (barring any AutoOpen macros) open at the size and in the view at which it was saved, but note that you have to actually save it, which means that something has to have changed. -- 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. "Ray" wrote in message ... I read that article and it does not apply to what I ask. I'm not interested in changing the normal.dot template. I'm interested (as I stated) in making an existing document open the same size as it was when I closed it. Document "A" I want to open really wide so I can see all the columns in the wide table in it, and Document "B" I want to open tall and skinny to match the content that is in it. These are documents I use over and over many times per week. I had ask if there is a way to set a *particular document* (not all documents - i.e. normal.dot) to open a certain way. Thanks Ray "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/SaveViewAndZoom.htm -- 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. "Ray" wrote in message ... I have several documents that I use over and over, usually several times per week. Some are wide, one is landscape, and some are tall and skinny. I would like to be able to open the tall skinny one so it displays appropriately and the wide one so *it* displays nice and wide. Is there any way to set a particular document so that it opens the way I want it to instead of the way it wants to? -- Thanks, Ray |
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Ray,
if you just want to look at two documents at the same time, you could open them and then right-click the taskbar and choose Tile Windows Vertically. If you want something more automatic, you can use a macro to set the height and width of the window. This is a simple version: Sub Test() ActiveWindow.WindowState = wdWindowStateNormal ActiveWindow.Height = 500 ActiveWindow.Width = 500 End Sub (To find out the largest values allowed, use the UsableHeight and UsableWidth properties of the Application object.) For more "power," you may want to ask in a programming newsgroup such as microsoft.public.word.vba.general. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Yeah, it's a word, and it sounds like the right one. I'm out of ideas, but perhaps someone else can help. I really don't have much experience with this because I do run Word maximized. -- 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. "Ray" wrote in message ... I just checked to make sure and I am not using Word as email editor. I am using Outlook for email. What a bummer! (is that even a word?) Ray "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Ordinarily Word will reopen with the same window size/shape you were using when you closed it (assuming you have it set to open in a Normal window rather than Maximized), but if you use Word as your email editor in Outlook, that might be a factor. -- 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. "Ray" wrote in message ... Well shucks! Thanks for trying. I don't know what it is, but I know there is some way to do it, because a few weeks ago everything was opening just about the right size to fully see the width of a page (8-1/2") at 100% and now everything is opening much, much wider, so that I have to grab the side handles and reign it in a good bit to work with two open documents at once. I'm pretty sure that God doesn't look down and decide to let all my documents open wide one month and tall and skinny the next. I'm pretty sure there is some little something I've done, and if I did, I should be able to do it again. Ray "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... You don't actually have to leave the change in place. Just pressing the spacebar and then backspace will usually suffice--anything to activate the Undo arrow. But what you're describing is not the Zoom ratio but the size of the window, and that cannot be saved with the document. You can only save that for Word overall. I'm sorry I misunderstood what you wanted. I run Word maximized for all documents, so the amount of height and width I see depends on the Zoom setting. -- 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. "Ray" wrote in message ... Suzanne, that doesn't work. Here is what I did: I opened the document. I placed a period in an area where there is no other text then I hit the space bar twice. I then changed the color of the period (.) to white so it is invisible against a white background. That allowed me to leave the change in place, so there was no doubt in my mind that Word had to see it as a change. I then grabbed the corner of the window and reduced it to the size I wanted it to open as. I clicked FileSave to close the document. I then did the exact same thing with a copy of that original document except at the end I hit Ctrl+S to save it. So I saved two instances of the same thing using two save methods. I then opened the two document and they opened wide across the page, not tall and skinny like I had closed them. I have not installed an AutoOpen macros. I hope you understand how I could have thought that the article you sent me to was about the global template: Because it was so careful to be specific that, it is about the normal.dot document. Thanks for your attempt. Best, Ray "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... The article applies to specific documents as well. The point is that it should (barring any AutoOpen macros) open at the size and in the view at which it was saved, but note that you have to actually save it, which means that something has to have changed. -- 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. "Ray" wrote in message ... I read that article and it does not apply to what I ask. I'm not interested in changing the normal.dot template. I'm interested (as I stated) in making an existing document open the same size as it was when I closed it. Document "A" I want to open really wide so I can see all the columns in the wide table in it, and Document "B" I want to open tall and skinny to match the content that is in it. These are documents I use over and over many times per week. I had ask if there is a way to set a *particular document* (not all documents - i.e. normal.dot) to open a certain way. Thanks Ray "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/SaveViewAndZoom.htm -- 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. "Ray" wrote in message ... I have several documents that I use over and over, usually several times per week. Some are wide, one is landscape, and some are tall and skinny. I would like to be able to open the tall skinny one so it displays appropriately and the wide one so *it* displays nice and wide. Is there any way to set a particular document so that it opens the way I want it to instead of the way it wants to? -- Thanks, Ray |
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Thank you Stefan and Suzanne. Perhaps a macro is the best answer.
Ray "Stefan Blom" wrote in message ... Ray, if you just want to look at two documents at the same time, you could open them and then right-click the taskbar and choose Tile Windows Vertically. If you want something more automatic, you can use a macro to set the height and width of the window. This is a simple version: Sub Test() ActiveWindow.WindowState = wdWindowStateNormal ActiveWindow.Height = 500 ActiveWindow.Width = 500 End Sub (To find out the largest values allowed, use the UsableHeight and UsableWidth properties of the Application object.) For more "power," you may want to ask in a programming newsgroup such as microsoft.public.word.vba.general. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Yeah, it's a word, and it sounds like the right one. I'm out of ideas, but perhaps someone else can help. I really don't have much experience with this because I do run Word maximized. -- 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. "Ray" wrote in message ... I just checked to make sure and I am not using Word as email editor. I am using Outlook for email. What a bummer! (is that even a word?) Ray "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Ordinarily Word will reopen with the same window size/shape you were using when you closed it (assuming you have it set to open in a Normal window rather than Maximized), but if you use Word as your email editor in Outlook, that might be a factor. -- 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. "Ray" wrote in message ... Well shucks! Thanks for trying. I don't know what it is, but I know there is some way to do it, because a few weeks ago everything was opening just about the right size to fully see the width of a page (8-1/2") at 100% and now everything is opening much, much wider, so that I have to grab the side handles and reign it in a good bit to work with two open documents at once. I'm pretty sure that God doesn't look down and decide to let all my documents open wide one month and tall and skinny the next. I'm pretty sure there is some little something I've done, and if I did, I should be able to do it again. Ray "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... You don't actually have to leave the change in place. Just pressing the spacebar and then backspace will usually suffice--anything to activate the Undo arrow. But what you're describing is not the Zoom ratio but the size of the window, and that cannot be saved with the document. You can only save that for Word overall. I'm sorry I misunderstood what you wanted. I run Word maximized for all documents, so the amount of height and width I see depends on the Zoom setting. -- 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. "Ray" wrote in message ... Suzanne, that doesn't work. Here is what I did: I opened the document. I placed a period in an area where there is no other text then I hit the space bar twice. I then changed the color of the period (.) to white so it is invisible against a white background. That allowed me to leave the change in place, so there was no doubt in my mind that Word had to see it as a change. I then grabbed the corner of the window and reduced it to the size I wanted it to open as. I clicked FileSave to close the document. I then did the exact same thing with a copy of that original document except at the end I hit Ctrl+S to save it. So I saved two instances of the same thing using two save methods. I then opened the two document and they opened wide across the page, not tall and skinny like I had closed them. I have not installed an AutoOpen macros. I hope you understand how I could have thought that the article you sent me to was about the global template: Because it was so careful to be specific that, it is about the normal.dot document. Thanks for your attempt. Best, Ray "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... The article applies to specific documents as well. The point is that it should (barring any AutoOpen macros) open at the size and in the view at which it was saved, but note that you have to actually save it, which means that something has to have changed. -- 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. "Ray" wrote in message ... I read that article and it does not apply to what I ask. I'm not interested in changing the normal.dot template. I'm interested (as I stated) in making an existing document open the same size as it was when I closed it. Document "A" I want to open really wide so I can see all the columns in the wide table in it, and Document "B" I want to open tall and skinny to match the content that is in it. These are documents I use over and over many times per week. I had ask if there is a way to set a *particular document* (not all documents - i.e. normal.dot) to open a certain way. Thanks Ray "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/SaveViewAndZoom.htm -- 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. "Ray" wrote in message ... I have several documents that I use over and over, usually several times per week. Some are wide, one is landscape, and some are tall and skinny. I would like to be able to open the tall skinny one so it displays appropriately and the wide one so *it* displays nice and wide. Is there any way to set a particular document so that it opens the way I want it to instead of the way it wants to? -- Thanks, Ray |
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