Hi All,



I would like to switch to "Focus Mode" (Word's distraction-free, full screen view) with VBA code. I've done a bunch of Google searches and have had no luck.

Any assistance would be very appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

MrXDev

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Do you mean reading layout view?

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Hi. Thanks for the reply.
No, I'm looking for the full-screen, distraction-free editing mode

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Hi,

I have the same problem -- can't find a way of entering this view type from VBA.

In case it might help others to help us, MrXDev (and I) want to use VBA to get to the view you reach manually in Word when you:

-- click on the View tab on the ribbon

-- in the Immersive group on the View ribbon, click Focus

Can anyone help please?

I haven't been able to figure this out either.
The lines you get if you record a macro don't work for me.
Nor does something like Application.CommandBars.ExecuteMso "FocusMode" .
The best i have come up with so far is using sendkeys, which is clunky/dicey, but it does mimic the ribbon nav of Alt W O:

joshu was very close to hitting the right command name
To figure out the name of the command which didn't appear in any of my usual searches, I went to the Customise Ribbon dialog and hovered over that particular button. A tooltip popped up with the actual command name shown in brackets.

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You can also get a complete list of control ids as an Excel workbook from GitHub - OfficeDev/office-fluent-ui-command-identifiers: Office Fluent User Interface Control Identifiers

Good call
I looked in my Word2016 version of that workbook and it wasn't there. I followed your link and found there is now a Word2019 version available and that command appears in that version.

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To "Guessed", and everyone else who has contributed so far, thank you for helping by identifying:

Application.CommandBars.ExecuteMso "ViewFocusModeView"

and the route to finding it.

To get to its neighbour in the "View > Immersive" group (the Immersive Reader view) using VBA, it's the rather more cryptically named:

Application.CommandBars.ExecuteMso "ToggleLearningTools"

which works in my Office 2021, and might in some earlier versions, too.

Application.CommandBars.ExecuteMso "ViewFocusModeView" was the ticket, thanks Guessed. That is an easy way to toggle Focus Mode.

Now wondering if I can detect which mode I am in (in order to display Nav Pane, change Page Color, etc., based on mode)

I know I can do something like this for Print View:

But I have not yet found a similar technique for determining Focus Mode.

The use of ExecuteMso implies there is no object for it?

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