Can't get rid of two-page view!!

[lockjawdavis]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

When I'm writing a simple word document and go to a second page, both pages appear on my screen. I find this distracting and am used to pages scrolling past one at a time. Please help if there is a solution to this annoying problem. Thank you!

 

[John McGhie]

Change your zoom level or window size. These are whatever you set them to
be, Word has no control over them.

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

When I'm writing a simple word document and go to a second page, both pages
appear on my screen. I find this distracting and am used to pages scrolling
past one at a time. Please help if there is a solution to this annoying
problem. Thank you!

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[John McGhie]

Change your zoom level or window size. These are whatever you set them to
be, Word has no control over them.

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

When I'm writing a simple word document and go to a second page, both pages
appear on my screen. I find this distracting and am used to pages scrolling
past one at a time. Please help if there is a solution to this annoying
problem. Thank you!

--
Don't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/

Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac
Sydney, Australia. mailto:[email protected]

 

[lockjawdavis]

Thanks, John. Zooming into the doc beyond 125% does, in fact, keep one page on the screen at a time. Of course, now there's the annoyance of dealing with these awkward, oversized pages. Before my switch to Mac I could put a Word doc at 87% which allowed me a full view of the page, but never jumped to those two side-by-side pages.
I'm a writer who spends a lot of time in Word, so apologies if I seem a little too picky.
Thanks for the help!!

 

[Elliott Roper]

Thanks, John. Zooming into the doc beyond 125% does, in fact, keep one page
on the screen at a time. Of course, now there's the annoyance of dealing with
these awkward, oversized pages. Before my switch to Mac I could put a Word
doc at 87% which allowed me a full view of the page, but never jumped to
those two side-by-side pages.
I'm a writer who spends a lot of time in Word, so apologies if I seem a
little too picky.
Thanks for the help!!

Hi Lockjaw. I too do picky.
Try zoom to 'page width'. Then you can control the look of each
document window with a petite little drag on the bottom right corner.
It is still not perfect, since it is near impossible to avoid the page
boundary wandering into the middle of the screen. But that's true even
if you zoom to 'whole page'. Which is a bug innit?

My macros for doing it and similar tricks and their assignment to
keystrokes is one of the reasons I have not yet downgraded to 2008.

PS Your namesake was one of the sweetest tenor sax players ever.

 

[lockjawdavis]

Thanks, Elliot. Another adequate solution, but like you say, it's a bug. Thanks for the help. These fixes will get me by for a while.

And I agree, Lockjaw was the man, wasn't he?

 

[Phillip Jones, C.E.T.]

Hi Lockjaw. I too do picky.
Try zoom to 'page width'. Then you can control the look of each
document window with a petite little drag on the bottom right corner.
It is still not perfect, since it is near impossible to avoid the page
boundary wandering into the middle of the screen. But that's true even
if you zoom to 'whole page'. Which is a bug innit?

My macros for doing it and similar tricks and their assignment to
keystrokes is one of the reasons I have not yet downgraded to 2008.

PS Your namesake was one of the sweetest tenor sax players ever.

in the zoom menu besides the percentages there are setting for

fit width, fit window, and original size.

Personally I find the fit width even though it may be 200+ percent al
lot easier on the eyes.

You must not need to wear glasses. I too when was younger could count
the veins in gnats wings at twenty paces. But not any more. use the
larger sizes it will prevent eyestrain and headaches.
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[John McGhie]

There's nothing to stop you typing 87% in the Zoom percentage box in Mac
Word, either Hit "Enter" and it will stick.

I am a writer, too. I write books for a living. I work exclusively in
Draft view while I am writing, so I do not have to bother to think about,
let alone see, any "pages".

Draft View gives a substantial performance boost in documents > 250 pages.
In documents > 500 pages, you really need to be in Draft View to get any
work done at all

I don't go into a paginated view until I am ready to finalise for
publication. Then I do all the pagination and fiddling in one efficient
session.

Yeah, OK, so then the client comes back with a series of after-thoughts and
I get to do it "again". But only once

I learned long ago that life is too short to work in Page Layout View

Cheers

Thanks, John. Zooming into the doc beyond 125% does, in fact, keep one page on
the screen at a time. Of course, now there's the annoyance of dealing with
these awkward, oversized pages. Before my switch to Mac I could put a Word doc
at 87% which allowed me a full view of the page, but never jumped to those two
side-by-side pages.
I'm a writer who spends a lot of time in Word, so apologies if I seem a little
too picky.
Thanks for the help!!

--
Don't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/

Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.

John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac
Sydney, Australia. mailto:[email protected]

 

[lockjawdavis]

Thank you, John and Phillip! I think you've helped me solve this issue about as well as it can be solved. Much appreciated!