Documents displayed with wrong layout in Word 2013

MarkM · #1 10-17-2014, 07:05 AM

I frequently write technical documentation and these documents are of two different types:

One type is intended for printing (and normally distributed in PDF form); to edit these documents I work in Print Layout

The second type is only meant for screen viewing (taking up the full width of the screen). For these documents I use Web Layout

Until Word 2010 a document would always open correctly, i.e. displayed with the layout that was active when I saved it last. In Word 2013/365, however, a document always gets displayed in the layout that is currently active in my Word session. This is not dramatic of course - it is easy enough to see that the display is wrong and to change layout - but I was wondering whether this is a bug or works-as-intended and, in case of the latter, whether there is an option to revert to the old behavior.

I have searched the Web before posting this question but nothing useful come up. I did find a Microsoft article mentioning that Word 2013 has a completely new "layout engine" but I don't even know whether there is any relation.

gmayor · #2 10-17-2014, 09:45 PM

It is a change of behaviour, I believe related to the fact that Word 365 is aimed at working on a variety of platforms. If you want the documents to always open in a particular view, you could add an autoopen macro to the document to switch the view and save the document as macro enabled e.g..

Code:

Sub AutoOpen()
    ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdWebView
End Sub

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

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