Open same doc as same size ea time

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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?
 
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 said:
See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/SaveViewAndZoom.htm

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The zoom is saved with the document, so if you are the only editor, there
shouldn't be a problem.

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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
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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.

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Fairhope, Alabama USA

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Ray said:
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
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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 File>Save 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
 
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.

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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
 
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.

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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
 
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.

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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.

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