Setting the default to specified zoom rato and view

S

Still Learning

Sorry, this is a repeat post. I couldn't get to the
general group to find the answer.

I'm using Word 2000

I used Suzanne Barnhill's instructions to change my Normal
template to print VIEW and page width ZOOM(87%). It saved
fine and it is set there any time I open the template.
However, when I use the template, my documents still
default to 116% and normal view. The template accepted the
margin change to 1" all around.

The program used to default to print view. I don't know
what happened. I create a lot of forms and end up
fighting with the normal template from time to time but I
don't think this is the problem. I suspect it happened
when I installed the Avery Wizard.

I appreciate any help you can give.

Thanks, I'm "Still Learning"
 
S

Suzanne S. Barnhill

View and Zoom are saved in every document. Existing documents will still
(theoretically at least) open in the view and at the zoom in which they were
saved. In Word 2000 and above (with SDI), however, I find this very quirky.
Documents seem to pick up the settings of the "spare" window in which they
are opened. For example, I keep Document1 open all day (in Normal view, at
100% zoom), but if I have opened a document in a second window and set the
zoom to, say, 150%, then closed that document, it is not at all unlikely
that the next document I open in (as it were) that same second window will
open at 150% instead of the zoom it was saved in. <sigh>
 
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Graham Mayor

You can force the required view with macros:

Sub Autonew()
With ActiveWindow.View
.Type = wdPrintView
.Zoom.Percentage = 87
End With
End Sub

Sub AutoOpen()
ActiveWindow.Caption = ActiveDocument.FullName
With ActiveWindow.View
.Type = wdPrintView
.Zoom.Percentage = 87
End With
End Sub

See http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm


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