preventing documents from changing the view

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Yves Konigshofer

Every time I view a Word document from someone (I'm using Word XP), the view
changes and the next time I start Word I still get the view the other person
used to write the previous document. Is there any way to have all documents
open up with the view that I prefer and also not have documents change my
view settings?

Thanks,

-Yves
 
I made a Blank document the way I want it. Any time I want to write something
I click on that "Blank Document" on my desktop and it comes up the way I want
then I click Save AS type in new a name
This is the only way I Know
 
You should learn to use templates. They are a *much* better way to create
new documents customised the way you want. But the relevance to the current
thread escapes me.
 
Documents always open in the view in which they were saved. But you could
save an AutoOpen macro in Normal.dot that would force documents to open in
your preferred view.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Hi Yves,

Add a macro named AutoOpen to your normal.dot (see
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm for instructions) that
forces the view to the one you want. Since you didn't say which one
that is, I'll assume it's Page Layout view -- in that case the macro
would be

Public Sub AutoOpen()
ActiveDocument.ActiveWindow.View = wdPrintView
End Sub

You can also have it set the zoom factor or other items if you want.
 
Thanks everyone!

-Yves

Jay Freedman said:
Hi Yves,

Add a macro named AutoOpen to your normal.dot (see
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm for instructions) that
forces the view to the one you want. Since you didn't say which one
that is, I'll assume it's Page Layout view -- in that case the macro
would be

Public Sub AutoOpen()
ActiveDocument.ActiveWindow.View = wdPrintView
End Sub

You can also have it set the zoom factor or other items if you want.
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