Hi bestgepeto,

You may be able to improve the screen display by checking/unchecking Word's 'Optimise character positioning for layout rather than readability' option. See under Word Options|Advanced > Display.

As for the printout, unless there's something really odd about your printer driver (and this could affect the display too), there is nothing that changing the view scale can do that would affect the print layout.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]