Print layout view - align doc to left

[Jon]

is it possible to have the page towards the left of the screen rather than
centred? I like to keep by styles window to the right an space is limited
with a cente aligned page unless i shrink the doc below 100% and the text
then gets a little small.

Thanks

Jon

 

[Terry Farrell]

If you dock the Styles Pane to the right side of the window, the document
page should automatically 'offset' to the new central position (i.e. it gets
out of the way). Docking will still let you toggle the pane on/off as
required.

 

[Jon]

not for me it doesn't. there is no movment of the document page. what I am
doing is clicking the little box to the bottom right of styles on the home
ribbon. the style window opens but overlays the open document and there is
no way I can get the document to move to the left so that the free space on
the right is large enough to accomodate the styles window at a size i would
like. there is space to the left of the document but it seems wasted as I
can't move the doc over to the left.

Am i missing something?

Jon

 

[Terry Farrell]

Open the Style Pane (Alt+Ctrl+Shft+S). On the Style Title Bar click on the
down arrow and choose MOVE. The mouse cursor should now be crossed arrows.
Grab the Style Pane title bar and move the Style Pane to the right much
further than you think is necessary as though you are trying to make it go
off screen. Suddenly it will dock itself and the document will jump off to
the left into its new 'central' position. If necessary it will auto-resize
to fit the new narrower gap is there is insufficient room at 100%.

Terry

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It took some experimentation, but I inadvertently did get this to work. I
hadn't realized you could resize this pane (and I don't know whether that
affected the result or not), but resizing it and "slamming" it against the
side didn't seem to help. I kept dragging it into various spots near the top
right corner and at some point, in desperation, double-clicked, and that did
the trick.

Unfortunately, now I can't figure out how to make it smaller again! Even if
I close it, the next time I open it, it's a big pane again--not a bad thing,
I guess, but not what I expected. Ah, wait, if I move the Move arrow to the
top left corner of the pane I can make it revert.

So, bottom line: Double-click in the top left corner to dock it. Drag the
top left corner to make it float.

The arrow on the title bar, by the way, doesn't lead to other task panes as
in Word 2003 but to a rather unnecessary menu of Move, Size, Close.

 

[Jon]

fantastic. just what I was after. Thanks

Jon

Open the Style Pane (Alt+Ctrl+Shft+S). On the Style Title Bar click on the
down arrow and choose MOVE. The mouse cursor should now be crossed arrows.
Grab the Style Pane title bar and move the Style Pane to the right much
further than you think is necessary as though you are trying to make it go
off screen. Suddenly it will dock itself and the document will jump off to
the left into its new 'central' position. If necessary it will auto-resize
to fit the new narrower gap is there is insufficient room at 100%.

Terry

 

[Jon]

The arrow on the title bar, by the way, doesn't lead to other task panes

as in Word 2003 but to a rather unnecessary menu of Move, Size, Close.

that was a slight disappointment but I guess I can'y have everything!

Jon

 

[Terry Farrell]

The 'trick' is to keep moving it to the right ridiculously too far as though
trying to force it off screen completely. It seems a bit OTT to have to
force it so far just to get it to 'snap' into the docked position.

Terry

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I thought I had dragged it pretty far. But since the double-click seems to
work, that's a lot more dependable.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Suzanne,

Ic you resize the style pane by dragging from either the top left corner or bottom right corner that size should stick when you dock
then undock the Pane.

Double clicking anywhere in the title bar of the pane (where first click gives you the four headed arrow) should dock it.

Slamming can be somewhat iffy (unless you're using a slow side). If you have the Word window less than full screen, or width wise,
for example less than 1/2 the screen width you can drag the Styles Pane out over the Windows desktop and leave it floating there
rather than further reduce your Word work area.

One of the design changes for Office 2007 was that there wasn't supposed to be a multipurpose/stacked task pane, although the
Document Map/Thumbnails Pane seems to have skirted that rule by using a dialog drop down and titling it 'Switch Navigation Window'
(I guess it's a window rather than a window pane <g>, and that makes it all different <g>)

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It took some experimentation, but I inadvertently did get this to work. I
hadn't realized you could resize this pane (and I don't know whether that
affected the result or not), but resizing it and "slamming" it against the
side didn't seem to help. I kept dragging it into various spots near the top
right corner and at some point, in desperation, double-clicked, and that did
the trick.

Unfortunately, now I can't figure out how to make it smaller again! Even if
I close it, the next time I open it, it's a big pane again--not a bad thing,
I guess, but not what I expected. Ah, wait, if I move the Move arrow to the
top left corner of the pane I can make it revert.

So, bottom line: Double-click in the top left corner to dock it. Drag the
top left corner to make it float.

The arrow on the title bar, by the way, doesn't lead to other task panes as
in Word 2003 but to a rather unnecessary menu of Move, Size, Close.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word) <<
--

Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Yes, I thought double-clicking was a lot more surefire than slamming. And I
quite like it docked. I was just pleased to see it could be resized, as then
I can see quite a nice long list (especially since I've got them in plain
text).