Can't Display "One Page" on New Monitor

[Tumbleweed]

I am using Word 2007 and have just replaced my older 21.5 widescreen monitor with a new 23” higher resolution monitor. Once I did this, I discovered that apparently because of the larger monitor, Word now displays pages in the “Two Page” format, i.e. side by side instead of the “One Page” format that I had been using previously in Word and which is the setting in which I prefer to work.

I found that if I set my new display to a lower resolution, it would resolve the problem albeit at a lower resolution. I find that solution unacceptable. After buying a newer, higher resolution monitor, one shouldn’t have to then set it back to the lower resolution of the old monitor simply to be able to use Word 2007.

I also discovered that if I zoom the document to 120%, I can get the document to display in the single page format however it is a larger than I prefer to work with. Likewise, if the zoom is set to 80% the document will also display in the single page format. In this case however, the document is TOO SMALL for me to work with. As soon as I return the zoom to 100% format, the display goes back to two pages.



So far, I have used MS Fixit program to reset the options in Word but that failed to resolve the situation. I also deleted NORMAL.DOT and let the system create a new one. That also failed to resolve the problem.

I am now hearing that the only way I may be able to resolve this situation is to upgrade to Word 2010. Since MSoffice had been working fine for my needs prior to this problem, I don’t feel that I should have to pay to upgrade simply to resolve this one issue.

Can anyone provide me with a solution to this problem other than having to upgrade to Word 2010? Thanks in advance for any assistance.

[Stefan Blom]

The behavior is by design. The zoom level at which Word displays a single page, centered in your monitor, depends on the monitor size and resolution. What you can do is run a macro as follows:

Sub ChangeTheZoomAsDesired()
On Error GoTo errhandler
ActiveWindow.View.Type = 3
With ActiveWindow.View.Zoom
  .PageColumns = 1
  .Percentage = 120
End With
errhandler:
Exit Sub
End Sub

[macropod]

Hi Stefan,

You don't really need the first 'Exit Sub'.

[Stefan Blom]

You're right, of course. In this case, the error handler simply exits, so the previous Exit Sub command is superfluous. Thank you!

Now I have fixed it too. :-)