Force to Open in Print Layout

[Guest]

I'm working on a template of corporate letterhead that's going to be posted
in an online library. The graphic for the letterhead is in the header,
which, of course, does not show up if someone opens it in normal view. I've
been asked if it is possible to force it to open in Page Layout (if it opens
in normal view, people will think the letterhead isn't there). Is there a
VBA code that might do the trick?

Thanks!

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

There is, but if you send out a document with a macro embedded in it,
people may not open it at all, as macros can carry viruses.

Documents open in the view in which they were last saved. So when I
receive attachments from students, they open in Page Layout even though
I prefer Normal, because my students use Page Layout, as do most office
workers.

The document will open in Normal if a person (like me), has a macro set
to force received documents to do so. But those people are not very
common, and can probably be relied upon to 1) recognize that a corporate
letter probably has a letterhead they need to switch views to see and 2)
be really annoyed if you send them a document with a macro in it.

In short, I think this problem is not worth you worrying about. The
vast majority of people use Page Layout, plus the document will carry
the Page Layout setting with it.

Daiya

note for archives: Page Layout=Print Layout.