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Outline View at start: how to preserve levels of expansion
First post - apologies if topic covered ....
I have a version of Word on an old computer that opens my documents in outline view exactly the way they were when I saved and closed them - with the sections I'm working on expanded like I left them, and the sections collapsed that I wanted collapsed. On my new computer, with Word 2003, the document opens each time with all levels expanded so that I have to go in and expand those sections I want and get it into the form I like to work with each time I start. I've checked out the Options box and haven't seen anything that will help. Maybe someone has an add-in or something that will help or knows why my documents won't stay the way I leave them? Thanks so much, Yours truly from thesis-writing purgatory, Gayla |
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Outline View at start: how to preserve levels of expansion
As far as I know, the only way to do this is with a couple of macros
in normal.dot: Sub AutoOpen() Dim v As View Set v = ActiveWindow.View If v.Type = wdOutlineView Or v.Type = wdMasterView Then v.ShowHeading 3 'specify the level that you want End If End Sub Sub AutoNew() Dim v As View Set v = ActiveWindow.View If v.Type = wdOutlineView Or v.Type = wdMasterView Then v.ShowHeading 3 'specify the level that you want End If End Sub Note that the above macros assume that you want to show headings 1-3 in each document saved or created in Outline view. Although you can edit the code to show more or less levels (change to a number between 1 and 9), it does *not* take care of situations where you want different settings for different parts of the document. If this is what you want, you'd better ask in a programming newsgroup instead. If you need help installing the macros, see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm. -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP "Gayla" wrote in message oups.com... First post - apologies if topic covered .... I have a version of Word on an old computer that opens my documents in outline view exactly the way they were when I saved and closed them - with the sections I'm working on expanded like I left them, and the sections collapsed that I wanted collapsed. On my new computer, with Word 2003, the document opens each time with all levels expanded so that I have to go in and expand those sections I want and get it into the form I like to work with each time I start. I've checked out the Options box and haven't seen anything that will help. Maybe someone has an add-in or something that will help or knows why my documents won't stay the way I leave them? Thanks so much, Yours truly from thesis-writing purgatory, Gayla |
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Outline View at start: how to preserve levels of expansion
"Stefan Blom" wrote in message
... Note that the above macros assume that you want to show headings 1-3 in each document saved or created in Outline view. Clarification: I meant to say, "[...] each document displayed in Outline view as it is *opened* or created." -- Stefan Blom Microsoft Word MVP |
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