Page Layout view switches to Normal view by itself!!

[Jonathan Burgess]

I'm working with graphics, boxes and lines etc.. and
almost every other operation (e.g drag or rotate) the view
decides to switchto Normal view.'It takes repeated clicks
to get page layout view back.

It's getting impossible to use Word at all. I've even re-
installed it. Any-one ever seen this??

Desperate for help - thanks.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I have to confess I've never seen this. My problem is the opposite: when I
turn on the Drawing toolbar (often just for reference, in answer to a user
question) or insert a graphic, Word switches to Print Layout. It doesn't
switch back to Normal when I close the Drawing toolbar or Undo insertion of
the graphic. But if Word is switching to Normal view, it could indicate a
graphics overload, and this could mean that your graphics driver needs to be
updated or, more seriously, that you need more computing power (primarily
RAM, both in the computer and on the video card, but also processing speed)
in order to handle the graphics load.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word

 

[Graham Mayor]

I have to confess I've never seen this. My problem is the opposite:
when I turn on the Drawing toolbar (often just for reference, in
answer to a user question) or insert a graphic, Word switches to
Print Layout. It doesn't switch back to Normal when I close the
Drawing toolbar or Undo insertion of the graphic.

That seems to be normal behaviour and presumably works on the premise that
you can't draw in normal.view.
The drawing toolbar part is easy to correct however, using the following
macro.

Sub Drawing()
With CommandBars("Drawing")
..Visible = Not .Visible
End With
ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdNormalView
End Sub

It'll still jump to print view when you actually use the tools, but
dismissing the toolbar using the command will pop you back to normal view.
Replace the 'draw' button on the toolbar with a button to call this macro.

But if Word is
switching to Normal view, it could indicate a graphics overload, and
this could mean that your graphics driver needs to be updated or,
more seriously, that you need more computing power (primarily RAM,
both in the computer and on the video card, but also processing
speed) in order to handle the graphics load.

It could also suggest a corrupt data key in the registry or maybe some odd
corruption in normal.dot - either of which can produce odd behaviour with
menu functions.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP
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Web site www.gmayor.dsl.pipex.com
Word MVP web site www.mvps.org/word
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