why do I have to scroll from side to side to read written text, b.

[colinsp]

I have XP Prof + SP3, using Office 2003. Just re-installed windows and
office. Now the text, although format is selected as size 12, it appears as
size 14 or larger on the page, and the text goes out of sight. Which means
that I have to scroll from side to side to read it.
Any advice on correction of this will be appreciated.

Colin

 

[Graham Mayor]

Change the zoom setting -
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/General/SaveViewAndZoom.htm

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[Graham Mayor]

Did you search for hidden files? Normal.dot is a hidden file in the folder
identified at tools > options > file locations > user templates.

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[grammatim]

Your template is in a hidden folder -- when you use Windows Search,
check "look in hidden folders."

Your zoom box is supposed to be in your Standard toolbar -- if it
isn't, click the down arrow at the toolbar's right end and choose
Reset.

In Word2007 the zoom box has been moved down to the right side of the
"status bar" and made minuscule with most of the presets taken away,
and provided with a useless zoom scroll bar that cannot be moved with
any sort of precision.

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

In Word 2007, if you click on the percentage shown at the left end of the
zoom slider, you'll get the Zoom dialog, which contains the presets. This is
also available in the View tab on the ribbon.

For my part, in Word 2007 and earlier, I assigned zooming capabilities to
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Up and Down, using two macros:

Sub ZoomIn()
'
' ZoomIn Macro
'
'
On Error Resume Next
With ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View
.Zoom.Percentage = .Zoom.Percentage + 1
End With
End Sub


Sub ZoomOut()
'
' ZoomIn Macro
'
'
On Error Resume Next
With ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View
.Zoom.Percentage = .Zoom.Percentage - 1
End With
End Sub

And... if those aren't enough, you can zoom using Ctrl+ Mouse Wheel..

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Your template is in a hidden folder -- when you use Windows Search,
check "look in hidden folders."

Your zoom box is supposed to be in your Standard toolbar -- if it
isn't, click the down arrow at the toolbar's right end and choose
Reset.

In Word2007 the zoom box has been moved down to the right side of the
"status bar" and made minuscule with most of the presets taken away,
and provided with a useless zoom scroll bar that cannot be moved with
any sort of precision.

 

[grammatim]

As I said, very few presets -- only 75, 100, 200; lost are the two I
used most often, 150 and 500. (The latter for checking on diacritics,
which tend to look pretty much the same at normal screen resolutions.)

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

It would be nice if we could define custom presets. I view a lot of
documents at 105% just because that seems to be a comfortable size for
10-12-pt TNR on my screen.

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Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

As I said, very few presets -- only 75, 100, 200; lost are the two I
used most often, 150 and 500. (The latter for checking on diacritics,
which tend to look pretty much the same at normal screen resolutions.)

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

You can modify one of the macros I showed previously to create QAT tools
that let you zoom to 150 and 500. For 150, it would be:

Sub Zoom150()
On Error Resume Next
ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Zoom.Percentage = 150
End Sub


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Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


As I said, very few presets -- only 75, 100, 200; lost are the two I
used most often, 150 and 500. (The latter for checking on diacritics,
which tend to look pretty much the same at normal screen resolutions.)

 

[Herb Tyson [MVP]]

Defined presets might be nice... although, I find having to use the mouse a
pain in the wrist. I use AutoOpen and AutoNew macros to make documents
default to 160%, since that's the minimum size at which I can comfortably
read 10 or 12 point text. When I need other zoom levels, I have zoom in and
zoom out assigned to keystrokes.

 

[grammatim]

FrameMaker has 8 or 10 steps on the preset scale -- every one of which
can be changed. I always had 1600% (its maximum!) in there, because I
occasionally had to move things by 1000ths of a point to get footnotes
right, because it never did learn that long footnotes are supposed to
break onto the next page! For Word, it turns out that 140% exactly
fits the text plus comment balloons on the full width of my screen.

 

[Graham Mayor]

If you set 105 from the zoom dialog, it appears to hold without further
effort for new documents, but for existing documents you would need an
autoopen macro in normal.dotm containing the line

ActiveWindow.View.Zoom.Percentage = 105

to force the view from the view saved in the document.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I don't want that zoom for all docs, though, just the ones I want it for.
Certain others require different zooms. And I absolutely don't want Word to
open at 105% (when it does, I switch it back) because I keep Document1 open
all day in pristine condition for testing purposes. It's the only document I
ever have that's actually based on Normal.dot.