Word document keeps opening in Notebook layout

[Oz Springs]

Is there any way I have a Word document to open to a particular view?
A newsletter template I created for a client keeps opening in Notebook
layout - really confusing...

I would prefer it opened to page layout view, where the client can see
everything. Notebook layout is utterly redundant here. And when the
document and its template is closed it is done so in page layout view.
Notebook view is never used at all.

Thanks for any help




Oz

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

You can force it with some macros, but you may not want to put macros in
your template, and it shouldn't be happening in the first place...

It should open in the view it was last saved in--try making a fake change
(space,backspace) in the template so that there is something to save to
trick it into remembering the view.

DM

 

[matt neuburg]

You can force it with some macros, but you may not want to put macros in
your template, and it shouldn't be happening in the first place...

It should open in the view it was last saved in

Really? My impression was that documents open in the view you were last
using (not necessarily for that document).... If I'm wrong about this,
it just shows how confusing this issue is! m.

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

Really? My impression was that documents open in the view you were last
using (not necessarily for that document).... If I'm wrong about this,
it just shows how confusing this issue is! m.

No, I'm very likely wrong....I finally gave up and used auto macros to force
Normal view, so I've forgotten the default behavior. Except that if
students sent me papers, those always opened up in *their* preferred view
(Page Layout) not mine (Normal). But then sometimes that reset my view to
Page Layout. Plus I don't know whether templates would act differently.

DM

 

[Oz Springs]

Thanks for the replies on this and apologies for taking so long to
reply. There's a long turnaround time for this list (hours and hours)
so in the meantime I re-created the document - the client was waiting.

Obviously the document had a bug because I never turned on the
NoteBook at any time (Word did that for me), though the document did
have about 11 sections.

This is the second bug I have had in a week in Word 2004 documents. I
have been using Word since version 3 (1989) and have had only 3
corrupted documents in all that time - one irrecoverable one I recall
did have lots of sections too. I hope that my recent experiences are
not an indication of the future. If so, Mellel or Nisus or Ragtime
will become my word processor.

I am finding Word is getting exasperating with features, although
welcome for some uses, that are utterly irritating in most occasions.
Maybe there is time for some user choice, eg

1. Being able to set the startup view for each document, and even
switch off some views. This will be handy because:

(a) text in text boxes is still invisible in Galley or Normal view and
can still easily be deleted entirely by removing the paragraph mark to
which the text box is anchored.

(b) opening up a document in the last-used view for another document
may not be appropriate for the newly-opened document

(c) Users will not have to trash a document they spent hours creating
simply because it kept opening in an inappropriate view.


2. Being able to switch OLE bookmark/field creation if we so choose.
OFF should be the default.

I am sure there are some other features which other users would like
to switch on or off.

Kind regards



Oz

 

[Paul Berkowitz]

Thanks for the replies on this and apologies for taking so long to
reply. There's a long turnaround time for this list (hours and hours)

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