With Office 2007, I am trying to set Word
so that it opens my files in draft view rather
than in print layout. Is it possible to set the
view in which files are opened?

Charles J wrote:
> With Office 2007, I am trying to set Word
> so that it opens my files in draft view rather
> than in print layout. Is it possible to set the
> view in which files are opened?

Documents should open in the view in which they were last saved
(http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Genera...iewAndZoom.htm, but note that
Word 2007 uses Normal.dotm instead of Normal.dot).

If you want to force all documents to draft view regardless of how they were
saved or where they came from, add this macro to your Normal.dotm template
(http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm):

Sub AutoOpen()
ActiveWindow.View = wdNormalView
End Sub

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
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all may benefit.

Even for documents saved in Draft view, you have to enable opening docs in
Draft view, which is in the Word Options somewhere.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"Jay Freedman" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Charles J wrote:
>> With Office 2007, I am trying to set Word
>> so that it opens my files in draft view rather
>> than in print layout. Is it possible to set the
>> view in which files are opened?
>
> Documents should open in the view in which they were last saved
> (http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Genera...iewAndZoom.htm, but note that
> Word 2007 uses Normal.dotm instead of Normal.dot).
>
> If you want to force all documents to draft view regardless of how they
> were saved or where they came from, add this macro to your Normal.dotm
> template (http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm):
>
> Sub AutoOpen()
> ActiveWindow.View = wdNormalView
> End Sub
>
> --
> Regards,
> Jay Freedman
> Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
> Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
> so all may benefit.
>

Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
> Even for documents saved in Draft view, you have to enable opening docs in
> Draft view, which is in the Word Options somewhere.

In Word 2007, one can find that setting here:

Office Button |Word Options | Advanced | General |Allow Opening a
Document in Draft View

David

And just to clarify, it's only in Word 2007 that that setting exists or is
needed (previous versions have no problem opening in Normal view).

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

"djprius" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:O9va2J$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote:
>> Even for documents saved in Draft view, you have to enable opening docs
>> in Draft view, which is in the Word Options somewhere.
>
> In Word 2007, one can find that setting here:
>
> Office Button |Word Options | Advanced | General |Allow Opening a Document
> in Draft View
>
> David

And, of course, a similar macro could be added to force newly created
documents to display in Draft view:

Sub AutoNew()
ActiveWindow.View = wdNormalView
End Sub

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP


"Jay Freedman" wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Charles J wrote:
>> With Office 2007, I am trying to set Word
>> so that it opens my files in draft view rather
>> than in print layout. Is it possible to set the
>> view in which files are opened?
>
> Documents should open in the view in which they were last saved
> (http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Genera...iewAndZoom.htm, but note that
> Word 2007 uses Normal.dotm instead of Normal.dot).
>
> If you want to force all documents to draft view regardless of how they
> were saved or where they came from, add this macro to your Normal.dotm
> template (http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm):
>
> Sub AutoOpen()
> ActiveWindow.View = wdNormalView
> End Sub
>
> --
> Regards,
> Jay Freedman
> Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
> Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup
> so all may benefit.
>