Version: 2008 Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) Processor:
Intel 1. How do you make sure that Word opens to a certain zoom
percentage (140% for me) no matter what Word document I open?
2. How can I get the formatting palette to not be a floating box but to
be incorporated right into the toolbar?
Thanks from a new user
Hi,
Word automatically opens a document with the zoom setting that was
active when the document was last saved. You can't make Word open
documents at a default zoom setting; the best solution in Word 2008 is
to create an AppleScript that can resize a window for you with a
keyboard shortcut.
Open AppleScript Editor (use Spotlight to find it), then copy the
following code into the new window:
tell application "Microsoft Word"
activate
tell active window
set width to 1020
set height to 800
end tell
set view type of view of active window to page view
set percentage of zoom of view of active window to 150
end tell
You can of course modify the parameters width (here: 1020), height
(here: 800), and zoom (here: 150) so that they match your needs. Height
and width are in pixels, so you might want to find out what your screen
resolution is so you can adjust the script to make the best use of your
Mac's screen. When you are done, save the document as a script in
~/Documents/Microsoft User Data/Word Script Menu Items. Note: if you
call the script "Resize window\cr.scpt" (without the quotation marks),
you will only need to press Ctrl+R in Word to resize the current
document. The "\c" indicates that you have to press Ctrl, and the letter
that follows is the second part of the keyboard command. You can change
it into anything you want, of course.
As for your second question: try View>Toolbars>Formatting.
