Making Draft View Default

[Otto Moehrbach]

Word 2007
I want draft view to be the default when I open a new document. I went to
Word Options - Advanced - General and checked "Allow opening a document in
draft view". That appeared to do nothing, not even for the current
document, that is, when I reopen the current document, it will not open in
draft view. How do I do this? Thanks for your time. Otto

 

[Graham Mayor]

The simplest method is to create autonew (new documents) and autopen
(existing documents) macros with the line

ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdNormalView

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

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[Stefan Blom]

After you have selected the option that you mentioned, you must also *save*
your documents in Draft view (since the view is stored with the document).

Note that if you want to force all documents to open in Draft view, you can
use auto macros such as the following:

Sub AutoNew()
Options.AllowOpenInDraftView = True
ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdNormalView
ActiveWindow.View.Zoom.Percentage = 100
End Sub

Sub AutoOpen()
Options.AllowOpenInDraftView = True
ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdNormalView
ActiveWindow.View.Zoom.Percentage = 100
End Sub

If you need assistance, see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm.

 

[Otto Moehrbach]

Graham
I'm quite familiar with VBA in Excel but I have zero knowledge of it in
Word. From what you said, I placed your statement in a Document_Open macro
in an existing document, and that works. But where would I place a similar
macro to force all new documents to open in draft view? Thanks for your
time with a lost soul. Otto

 

[Graham Mayor]

Put

Private Sub Document_New()
ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdNormalView
End Sub

in the ThisDocument entry of the normal template
or create an AutoNew macro - http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

or

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

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[Otto Moehrbach]

Graham
Thanks for that but I have to ask a dumb question: Where is the "Normal
Template"? Otto

 

[Graham Mayor]

The normal template for Word 2003 is normal.dot and for Word 2007 is
normal.dotm. If you have not changed the location where Word stores its
templates you can find it by typing
%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Templates
in the Address bar of Explorer.

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[Graham Mayor]

A bit hasty with the send button

Macros are saved by default in the normal template. If you click ALT+F11 and
select Normal in the projects window then This Document in Microsoft Word
Objects, you don't really need to know where the template is located.

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[Otto Moehrbach]

Thanks Graham. Otto

A bit hasty with the send button

Macros are saved by default in the normal template. If you click ALT+F11
and select Normal in the projects window then This Document in Microsoft
Word Objects, you don't really need to know where the template is located.

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