[Mark]

I have a macbook Pro, 15 inch screen, using Office:Mac 2004 student and
teacher edition. how do I expand the page size on the screen. It occupies
only the left half of the screen, making a normal 12 point font very small on
the screen and difficut to read. I've tried clicking the green "maximize"
button on the upper left, no effect.

[Terry Farrell[_2_]]

View menu, Zoom?

--
Terry Farrell - MS Word MVP

"Mark" wrote in message
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I have a macbook Pro, 15 inch screen, using Office:Mac 2004 student and
teacher edition. how do I expand the page size on the screen. It occupies
only the left half of the screen, making a normal 12 point font very small
on
the screen and difficut to read. I've tried clicking the green "maximize"
button on the upper left, no effect.

[Daiya Mitchell]

The green maximize button on Macs is not really a maximize button--it
goes to some sort of "ideal" size for the existing document. Common
annoyance.

On the lower right corner of the document window, you'll see a few
triangular lines. Drag that corner to adjust the window to the size you
want. You'll probably need to keep adjusting old documents. To change
the default size, you'll need to open up your Normal template, re-size
it, type and delete something to convince Word that Normal needs to be
saved, and close Normal (found in your user Documents/Microsoft User
Data folder).

But as Terry says, View | Zoom is what changes the text size. If you
set the Zoom to Page Width, then it will automatically enlarge as you
re-size the document window, to fill the page.

By the way, you'll get a better response for Mac-specific questions like
this if you post in a MacOffice group--I just happened to see this one,
but I'm sure I miss a lot of Mac questions posted over here.
See here for Google/Entourage gateway to newsgroups for MacWord,
MacExcel, and other MS programs for the Mac:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups

Mark wrote:
I have a macbook Pro, 15 inch screen, using Office:Mac 2004 student and
teacher edition. how do I expand the page size on the screen. It occupies
only the left half of the screen, making a normal 12 point font very small on
the screen and difficut to read. I've tried clicking the green "maximize"
button on the upper left, no effect.