set default page size to page width in zoom

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Every time I open an existing word document, it opens to page width - far to
big to qork with. I prefer 100% width, by changing on the zoom buttons, but
despite saving with these changes, it doesn't save the page zoom size.

How do I get to the default zoom setting. Office 2007 with Vista.

Thanks
 
In fev@FUSE typed on Sun, 9 Aug 2009 08:12:01 -0700:
Every time I open an existing word document, it opens to page width -
far to big to qork with. I prefer 100% width, by changing on the zoom
buttons, but despite saving with these changes, it doesn't save the
page zoom size.

How do I get to the default zoom setting. Office 2007 with Vista.

Thanks

I'm an Office 2000 user so I don't know if I can help much. But under
Word 2000, I would rename the old Normal.dot and allow Word to create a
new one. Assuming the old one is corrupt. I don't know, but does Word
2007 still use Normal.dot files?
 
Documents should open in the view and zoom they were saved in. If you open a
document, make an edit that needs saving, change the Zoom and then save and
close the document, does it now open in the correct zoom?
 
In Word 2007, the Normal template is called normal.dotm (the filename
extension indicates a macro-enabled template).

In this case, treating the template as corrupt would be overkill, though.
See Terry's reply.
 
In Stefan Blom typed on Sun, 9 Aug 2009 18:07:21 +0200:
In Word 2007, the Normal template is called normal.dotm (the filename
extension indicates a macro-enabled template).

In this case, treating the template as corrupt would be overkill,
though. See Terry's reply.

Ah... thanks for the overview and the correction Stefan.
 
For more on this, see
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/SaveViewAndZoom.htm.

Also, note that if you want to force all documents, new and existing ones,
to open at a particular zoom, you could use auto macros such as the
following:

Sub AutoOpen()
ChangeTheZoom
End Sub

Sub AutoNew()
ChangeTheZoom
End Sub

Sub ChangeTheZoom()
With ActiveWindow.View
.Type = 3 ' Print Layout view (use 1 for Draft view)
.Zoom.Percentage = 100 ' specify the desired zoom
End With
End Sub

Sometimes you may also need to set a timer so that Word gets some time to
load the blank document created on startup:

Sub AutoExec()
Application.OnTime _
When:=Now + TimeValue("00:00:01"), Name:="ChangeTheZoom"
End Sub

Save the macros in normal.dotm (or in an add-in). For more, see
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm.
 
Completely OT: Nice to see you back again. It was weird to not read posts
from you. :-)
 
Thanks, JoAnn. We had a *great* time in England. I've blogged about one
aspect of it at
http://walkthoughts.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/a-beef-and-ale-tour/ and may
add more later (including baby pictures), but I'm still trying to get
"caught up."

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org

JoAnn Paules said:
Completely OT: Nice to see you back again. It was weird to not read posts
from you. :-)

--
JoAnn Paules
MVP Microsoft [Publisher]
Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies"



Suzanne S. Barnhill said:
See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/SaveViewAndZoom.htm

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
http://word.mvps.org
 
Thanks Terry,

Don't know why it didn't but it does now. Perhaps I didn't carry out an edit
before saving, but I did this and saved and all sorted,

Thank you,

Kev
 
Suzanne,


Very useful link there - thank you very much.

I have learned a thing or two about office files now.

All I had to do was make an edit in the text and save as I was just changing
the zoom and saving.

All sorted out now.


Thank you very much,

Kev
 
Probably because changing zoom doesn't dirty the document to trigger a save
function on its own: it needs another 'real' edit.

Terry
 
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