getting different "views" on each document

[Jennie R.]

I have been helping someone with several word games he is creating on
Word. He has about 11 different games now and for some reason, each
one is coming up in "normal" view when he loads it in. Before he had
Print View and they were all the same. I had created a template for
him out of another word game. Perhaps the template has been changed
inadvertently ???

Also some documents come up showing Ariel +11 and others have the
formatting of Ariel with no number after it-but 12 font size if you
put the cursor on the word to check it.

He has an old copy of Word. 2003?

thanks for any help. Jennie

 

[Stefan Blom]

The view and zoom is saved with the document. For more on this, see
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/SaveViewAndZoom.htm.

Alternatively, in order to force a certain view setting for all documents,
you could use an auto macro. For exampe:

Sub AutoNew()

With ActiveWindow.View
.Type = wdPrintView 'select page/print layout view
'Alternative to the above line if normal view is preferred
'.Type = wdNormalView

.Zoom.Percentage = 500 'fix the tiny cursor error
.Zoom.Percentage = 100 'set the display zoom to 100%

End Sub

Sub AutoOpen()

With ActiveWindow.View
.Type = wdPrintView 'select page/print layout view

'Alternative to the above line if normal view is preferred
'.Type = wdNormalView

.Zoom.Percentage = 500 'fix the tiny cursor error
.Zoom.Percentage = 100 'set the display zoom to 100%

End Sub

There are some more examples at
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm.

"Arial + 10 pt" and similar entries in the Styles and Formatting pane
usually represent direct formatting. You can hide it if you want to:

1. On the Tools menu, click Options, and then click the Edit tab.
2. Under Editing options, clear the Keep track of formatting check box.
3. Click OK.