set default page size to page width in zoom

[fev@FUSE]

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

 

[BillW50]

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?

 

[Terry Farrell]

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?

 

[Stefan Blom]

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.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

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

 

[BillW50]

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.

 

[Stefan Blom]

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.

 

[JoAnn Paules]

Completely OT: Nice to see you back again. It was weird to not read posts
from you.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

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

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"

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

 

[fev@FUSE]

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

 

[fev@FUSE]

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

 

[Terry Farrell]

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

Terry