OK. This deserves a full explanation:
1) Draft View is an unpaginated view.
2) If you want to see pagination (and don't mind the slow-down that will
occur with larger documents) then switch to Print Layout, then make a small
change and SAVE the document. Documents open in the view they were last
saved.
3) Background repagination is the only kind of pagination Word now has.
They removed "Foreground Pagination" in the switch to Mac OS 9. So
background repagination is always on. It operates constantly.
4) The button does nothing. It's not even connected to any code. However,
"removing" the code that it used to be connected to is a large piece of
work.
The feature was designed back in the days when "efficiency" was far, far
more important than maintainability. So it's scattered all over the code
base, and would require a major re-write and re-test of everything just to
achieve "nothing".
Now that you know that it does nothing, I suspect you would rather just
ignore the checkbox that have Microsoft drop work on useful features simply
to get rid of something that is actually having no effect at all.
Yes, it is amusing
But personally, if I were Microsoft, I would not be
willing to spend shareholder's money on getting rid of it. One of these
days, in the course of other work, it will magically disappear
Hope this helps
Every time I open a document, I need to click on "Print Layout View" in order
to paginate my document. I know that in "Draft View" I can go into Preferences
and check "Background Repagination" and then Save, but every time I open Word
again, that button is unchecked and I need to go through the whole process
again. Is there a way to save that preference so that Background Repagination
is always on?
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