Reading View in Word 2003...

[Guest]

After opening an attachment from an Outlook 2003 email, which is a Word
document, it opens in "mark up" view/and "reading" view and I would like to
alter the default to "Print layout" view with no tracked changes - is this
possible?

Thanks in advance
Amanda

 

[Jay Freedman]

After opening an attachment from an Outlook 2003 email, which is a
Word document, it opens in "mark up" view/and "reading" view and I
would like to alter the default to "Print layout" view with no
tracked changes - is this possible?

Thanks in advance
Amanda

Go to Tools > Options > General and uncheck the option "Allow starting in
Reading Layout". That will let the document open in whatever view it was
last saved in (see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/SaveViewAndZoom.htm).

To force documents to open in Print Layout and hide tracked changes, you
need a macro (http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm):

Sub AutoOpen()
With ActiveWindow
.View = wdPrintView
.View.ShowRevisionsAndComments = False
End With
End Sub

 

[Guest]

Jay

Thanks for taking the time to answer this - just what I needed!

Cheers
Amanda