My company upgraded to microsft office 2003. When opening word doc
attachments, they open with the "view" setting in "reading layout" mode. What
you see is everything jumbled up. This is happening to everyone in the
office. One has to manually change the "view" mode to the "print layout"
mode.

Many of us in the office have tried to find a setting option that will
dictate that word docs open in "print layout" mode by default.

Is this possible. If so, how?

Thanks!

On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 13:35:02 -0700, "Quantum Guy" Quantum
wrote:

My company upgraded to microsft office 2003. When opening word doc
attachments, they open with the "view" setting in "reading layout" mode. What
you see is everything jumbled up. This is happening to everyone in the
office. One has to manually change the "view" mode to the "print layout"
mode.

Many of us in the office have tried to find a setting option that will
dictate that word docs open in "print layout" mode by default.

Is this possible. If so, how?

Thanks!

In Tools Options General, uncheck "Allow starting in Reading
Layout". The documents will then open in the view in which they were
last saved; if that was Print Layout, you're all set.

If you get many attachments that open in Normal view or one of the
others, you can force the issue by adding this macro to your
Normal.dot template (see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm if
necessary):

Public Sub AutoOpen()
ActiveWindow.View = wdPrintView
End Sub


--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

Thanks so much , You're going to make me a hero at work! Was easy fix but
it's been driving everyone at work nuts

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

On Sat, 11 Jun 2005 13:35:02 -0700, "" Quantum
wrote:

My company upgraded to microsft office 2003. When opening word doc
attachments, they open with the "view" setting in "reading layout" mode. What
you see is everything jumbled up. This is happening to everyone in the
office. One has to manually change the "view" mode to the "print layout"
mode.

Many of us in the office have tried to find a setting option that will
dictate that word docs open in "print layout" mode by default.

Is this possible. If so, how?

Thanks!

In Tools Options General, uncheck "Allow starting in Reading
Layout". The documents will then open in the view in which they were
last saved; if that was Print Layout, you're all set.

If you get many attachments that open in Normal view or one of the
others, you can force the issue by adding this macro to your
Normal.dot template (see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm if
necessary):

Public Sub AutoOpen()
ActiveWindow.View = wdPrintView
End Sub


--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org