I'm gonna kill MS Word. Display ONE page per window?

[SoftwareEng]

Guys, this is simply insane. I have a 24" wide-screen monitor, and MS Word 2003 (2010 too) insists on displaying TWO pages, side by side. I effing hate that. In my little picture below, the pound sign is a "page":

[##]
so 2 pages are displayed side by side.

I really want this:

[ # ]
(just ONE page, centered on the screen!!!)

Please help. Insanity. Thanks!

 

[juiio]

Depends on what version of Word, probably.

In 2010, click on View on the ribbon, then click on One Page in the Zoom section.

 

[BlueWeasel]

For older versions, sounds like you are in reading layout. It needs to be switched back to normal or print layout for only 1 page to show.

 

[Skitzer]

And you are a Software Engineer?

 

[Sid59]

in 2010, on the bottom right, where you can set zoom, there's 4 icons, is it set to "Print Layout"?
Or
in the ribbon interface, click on "View" and choose "Print Layout" and "One Page"

 

[SoftwareEng]

Guys, thank you all for trying. Still, it doesn't work as expected. If I set it to "one page view" in word 2010, it lowers the zoom to ~ 90%. As soon as I change the zoom to 100, it goes back to fitting two pages into the window. So my settings are correct, it just doesn't seem to be possible to have the 100% zoom AND only view one page per window. I can make the MS Word window smaller, but that defeats the purpose.

WTF, microsoft. You suck. I'm not even going to capitalize you anymore. microsoft.

 

[a123456]

Yeah, the new Word shows # of pages based on width and there's no real built-in setting to overwrite it.

I guess the only real options are to make the window non-maximized or to write a quick macro for it. Something like

With ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Zoom
    .PageColumns = 1
    .Percentage = 100
End With

 

[SoftwareEng]

And you are a Software Engineer?

Yes, and I'm damn good at it, which is why it's so hard to tolerate horrible and user-hostile apps written by others

 

[SoftwareEng]

Yeah, the new Word shows # of pages based on width and there's no real built-in setting to overwrite it.

I guess the only real options are to make the window non-maximized or to write a quick macro for it. Something like

With ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Zoom
    .PageColumns = 1
    .Percentage = 100
End With

It looks good, but now Word doesn't center the single page that it's displaying. It's showing it in the left half of the window, leaving room for ANOTHER page in the right half.

[# ]

instead of

[ # ]

 

[jahbrother]

I have this same EFFIN problem!! In one page view it's unzoomed at 80% and very uncomfortable, if you zoom it any more it automatically goes to two pages side by side and is very difficult to work that way. I can find no way to view it in a single full zoom mode. You can go to "page width" but then it's crazy zoomed in!! This sucks please help! I hate this effin program (too). I too am using a wide screen monitor about 24 inches. D:

Thanks,
James

It looks good, but now Word doesn't center the single page that it's displaying. It's showing it in the left half of the window, leaving room for ANOTHER page in the right half.

[# ]

instead of

[ # ]

 

[Steltek]

I have this same EFFIN problem!! In one page view it's unzoomed at 80% and very uncomfortable, if you zoom it any more it automatically goes to two pages side by side and is very difficult to work that way. I can find no way to view it in a single full zoom mode. You can go to "page width" but then it's crazy zoomed in!! This sucks please help! I hate this effin program (too). I too am using a wide screen monitor about 24 inches. D:

Thanks,
James

Try going to View, select Print Layout mode, Select View as One Page, then hit the Zoom button, select a zoom of either Page Width, Text Width, Whole Page, or key a zoom factor of over 110% (depending upon your monitor, it will probably take somewhere between 110% and 120% zoom to shift the display to single page - if you use the Zoom dialog and not the slider, you can increase the zoom by 1% increments until you get it where you want it).

 

[Chapbass]

If you have a monitor that can rotate, then do that. fits better on the screen for word anyway.

 

[N4g4rok]

In 2010, click on View on the ribbon, then click on One Page in the Zoom section.

I'm not sure i understand the issue. I'm looking at a multiple page document now, but i'm looking at one page, centered, at 100% just like you're talking about. All i did was what juiio said above and it worked.

 

[Anubis]

i dont think you can do it on anything larger than 1920*1200

however on my 24 in dell running 1920*1200 at work if i hit "full screen reading" and then ESC out of it it places the page centerd at 100% zoom

this doesnt work when running 2560*1440

 

[mousetrap]

Here's what works (Word 2010 with Win 7):

1.
Set view in Page Layout mode

2.
In the View tab of the ribbon, open the zoom dialog box using the Zoom button and select 1 page wide by 2 pages high (DO NOT change the zoom percentage in this dialog).

or

In the View tab of the ribbon, click on the "one page" button (not sure of the exact button name in the English version of Word).

3.
Adjust the zoom using ONLY the scroll wheel (ctrl+scroll button)

4.
NEVER use the zoom slider at the bottom-right of the window to adjust zoom.

5.
NEVER use the zoom button in the View tab of the ribbon to adjust zoom.

6.
And remember to ALWAYS use ctrl+scroll wheel to adjust zoom.

It seems Microsoft forgot to screw-up the "ctrl+scroll button" function when they messed around with the way the zoom slider works

 

[Tr4pZ]

Looks like the problem is still actual... here is a workaround which should fix the problem in most cases:

'use all of this in your normal template
Sub AutoNew() 
' when you creating a document
   onePage100
End Sub

Sub AutoOpen()
' when you open a document
     onePage100
End Sub

Sub AutoExec()
'when you open word itself
'needs an imaginary timedelay because word needs some time to create the new sheet...
     Application.OnTime When:=Now + TimeValue("00:00:00"), Name:="onePage100" ' maybe you will need "00:00:01" depends on how fast your computer is
End Sub

Sub onePage100()

'
' autochange the view to one Page and 100%
' do not work in safe View
'
    On Error Resume Next
    ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Zoom.Percentage = 100 ' 100% feel free to change this
    ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdWebView
    If ActiveWindow.View.SplitSpecial = wdPaneNone Then
        ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Type = wdPrintView
    Else
        ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdPrintView
    End If
End Sub

 

[Fayd]

i was gonna look into this, but then i realized i have no word documents longer than a page...

ever since i learned latex, i use it for \emph{everything}

 

[epsonalex2002]

I was having this problem too. I am tempted to just use an alternative like OpenOffice just to boycott microsoft. I think SoftwareEng put it best, when he described it as a user-hostile program.

However, the fix that Steltek explained worked to resolve this for me, so I wanted to say thanks for that. Granted, I have to have it zoomed to 120%, but this is acceptable when compared to the alternative. But that is just a perfect example of how this crappy program is as SoftwareEng describes, user-hostile. I mean, I select the option single page, then attempt to set the zoom to 100% and it chooses to disregard my selected options and automatically go back to two page display, instead of adhering to the setting I chose.

Anyway, thanks Steltek.

 

[MrDudeMan]

This isn't really that complicated of a problem. Zoom in one or two clicks using the mouse wheel and it'll reduce to a single page. I use a 30" monitor and have zero issues with this. Also, it's a helpful feature to see more than one page at a time if you aren't going to use more than one page worth of vertical area. You end up with huge gray space on either side of a single page if you fit it vertically and center it horizontally. That's just stupid and probably the reason Word doesn't automatically let you do it.

 

[radtechtips]

Cntrl+ scroll wheel!

 

[Gintaras]

Yes, and I'm damn good at it, which is why it's so hard to tolerate horrible and user-hostile apps written by others

Own shit never smells...Remember that...It's just others no good

WTF, microsoft. You suck. I'm not even going to capitalize you anymore. microsoft.

Most likely, Anger Management could help....

 

[micwsing]

Ok, this is pretty simple. I have a 32" monitor that I am using and used to get frustrated with the same thing. To go from (##) to (#) just simply look at the top center of your screen where it probably says something like 57% and click on the arrow beside it. You then should be able to select "Page Width". Problem solved!

 

[sweenish]

If I maximized a Word window, I'd want to see as much as possible.

Word just runs on one half of my screen 97% of the time. It doesn't need all that horizontal space, and I rarely do anything requiring landscape in Word. Even then, it just zooms out a bit and it's still perfectly legible.

That's just my use case, but I guess I'm in the majority if that's default behavior.

 

[ladym]

I'm not sure if this may help some of you. I also have a 24 inch monitor. I found that if I'm working with a '.doc' file, it may display multiple pages by default. However, if I convert that to a '.docx' file, then I have no problem displaying it with one page at 100%.

 

[h4rm0ny]

Um, everybody? This thread is from 2013. I would imagine the OP has written their own word processor by this point.

But just in case it's useful to anyone, this problem doesn't exist in current versions of Word. You just go to the (as you might expect) View tab and click "One Page". You can zoom in or out as much as you like and you'll still get your pages vertically aligned in sequence rather than side by side.