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Old 03-08-2012, 03:54 PM
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Default 100% Zoom, single wide page in Word


Here's what worked for us (we're using MS Word 2003):

Open your document.
On the toolbar, choose "View / Web Layout"
On the toolbar, choose "View / Print Layout"

Voila! 100% zoom, single wide document on a widescreen monitor

For some unknown reason, choosing any other view mode prior to "View / Print Layout" will not work - you must choose "View / Web Layout" first, followed immediately by "View / Print Layout". Weird, huh?
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Old 03-09-2012, 04:57 PM
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Hi Droppros,

That will only work if Print Layout view was previously at 100%. No matter what zoom you use in a different view, Print Layout view will always revert to whatever zoom it last had.
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Yes but the original question/problem was how to view a single page at 100% zoom (not multiple sheets side by side), and doing our method above solves it.
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As I said, only if that's what you had beforehand. If, for example, you had a two-page view in Print layout view at, say 50%, toggling to Web Layout view and back only reduces the view to a single page, but it doesn't change the zoom factor. Similarly, if you previously had a single page viewed at 125%, toggling to Web Layout view and back retains the 125% zoom.

IMHO, therefore, you're overstating your solution's efficacy.
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I think you're losing sight of the issue. The issue is how to view, at 100% zoom, a single page, rather than multiple pages or documents side by side. We all know how to change the zoom - that is not the issue. Prior to our "work-around", it has not been previously discovered how to have a single document at 100% zoom on a widescreen monitor. How it's achieved or what the prior zoom is or was is not the issue - the target here is how to get a single document wide at 100% and our solution works.
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I have a widescreen monitor, on which it doesn't work - with either Word 2003 or Word 2010 (I have both). I'm glad it works for you, but it's clearly not a solution for everyone. A robust solution, rather than a system-specific workaround, needs to work on all platforms.
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I don't like the two page view and want to change it to single. When I change it to single page from the ribbon menu I then find the zoom is set to 70% which is much too small for me. If I change the zoom to 100% it goes back to the 2 page view.

So how do view single page and keep the zoom to 100% ?
I know exactly what you mean and have the same issue. I only want to view page one. In any view format, it shows two or more pages, so I have to type way over to the left on my screen, with a big blank page two taking up the rest of the screen. HELP!
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I know exactly what you mean and have the same issue. I only want to view page one. In any view format, it shows two or more pages, so I have to type way over to the left on my screen, with a big blank page two taking up the rest of the screen. HELP!
Have you tried the macro in post #15 in this thread (with a zoom change from 125 to 100)?
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I'm afraid the macro is a bit advanced for me. Is the Word macro applicable to Excel? I have found that when I zoom with the slider to 159 it gets close to showing the one page only. But this is fairly clumsy to have to mess with each time I work on any Excel document (which is all day). If I should proceed with the macro, I would need further help with how to do that....
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Also, just FYI for the others, when I zoom to 70 I get THREE pages.
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I'm afraid the macro is a bit advanced for me. Is the Word macro applicable to Excel? I have found that when I zoom with the slider to 159 it gets close to showing the one page only. But this is fairly clumsy to have to mess with each time I work on any Excel document (which is all day). If I should proceed with the macro, I would need further help with how to do that....
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All you have to do is to follow the instructions given in the post. The macro works automatically in the background.

The macro is for Word, not Excel; this is a Word forum, after all.

Excel does not have a page metaphor - it's simply a huge grid that can (but doesn't have to) be broken up into pages. It seems your expectations re Excel misunderstand this. Of course, if you only want to see the equivalent of a page, you could reduce the Excel window size instead of zooming - or you could hide all the columns (and/or rows) outside of what you want to view.
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All you have to do is to follow the instructions given in the post. The macro works automatically in the background.

The macro is for Word, not Excel; this is a Word forum, after all.

Excel does not have a page metaphor - it's simply a huge grid that can (but doesn't have to) be broken up into pages. It seems your expectations re Excel misunderstand this. Of course, if you only want to see the equivalent of a page, you could reduce the Excel window size instead of zooming - or you could hide all the columns (and/or rows) outside of what you want to view.
Thank you. I will try to find a friend to show me where to begin with the macro instruction. But with all due respect, hiding the columns does not change or fix the issue in any way. If I am working only in columns A through F, and the page break between F and G runs right down the middle of my screen, and I hide columns G through U, then columns V through AD simply now show on the page 2 where columns G through U were. No matter how many columns I hide, I will still have the page break running right down the middle of my screen, so that everything I am working on on page one is on the left side of my screen, and a blank page 2 is still taking the entire right side of my screen. If Excel can give us page breaks and various layout options and fancy formatting, I'm fairly sure it is not too much to ask a normal size window simply show us only the page we are working on. Having to zoom and reduce the window size and use a magnifying glass everytime we open a document just doesn't seem reasonable.
Does anyone know if other versions do not have this issue?
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Excel does not have a page metaphor - it's simply a huge grid that can (but doesn't have to) be broken up into pages. seems your expectations re Excel misunderstand this.
Every Excel version ever made and, AFAIK, every other spreadsheet application ever made works this way.
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If you change the zoom to 110%, it switches to one page viewing. It's very confusing, and I dislike it very much, but it is the only way that I have been able to figure out. I hope this helps.
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Awesome. What a weird thing to figure out It's not much different from switching the zoom to 110%, though.
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