Word should let me open attachments in view of my choice.

[Guest]

Whenever we receive a Word document as an attachment, the program always
opens the document in "Reading Layout" view. This is "ANNOYING" because we
NEVER use Reading Layout view. We ALWAYS want to open every attachment in
"Print Layout" view. There is currently no facility in Word to change the
default view for opening all attachments. Please make this feature
available. I am using Word 2003.

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

If you will clear the check box for "Allow starting in Reading Layout" on
the General tab of Tools | Options, documents will open in the view in which
they were saved. In most cases this will be Print Layout because that's what
most people use most of the time. If you want to force this, you will need
an AutoOpen macro.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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Whenever we receive a Word document as an attachment, the program always
opens the document in "Reading Layout" view. This is "ANNOYING" because we
NEVER use Reading Layout view. We ALWAYS want to open every attachment in
"Print Layout" view. There is currently no facility in Word to change the
default view for opening all attachments. Please make this feature
available. I am using Word 2003.

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[wfz]

I would like to force documents to open in Reading Layout (which puts
me in the minority!) What is an AutoOpen macro, and how do I create one
for Reading Layout?

 

[Graham Mayor]

An autoopen macro is a macro called autoopen and by so naming it it will run
each time a new document is opened. If you don't know what it is, you
probably don't already have such a macro, so rather than add the relevant
command to an existing macro, you can create a new one

Sub Autoopen()
ActiveWindow.View.ReadingLayout = True
End Sub

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

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