Word 2016 always open in Side to Side view, even after changing it to Vertical view.

Anonymous
2017-04-07T23:49:07+00:00

Recently, my Word 2016 had defaulted to scrolling between document pages side-to-side rather than vertically. I keep changing (under the View tab) the "page movement" to vertical, but each time I re-open Word, it defaults to side-to-side (see picture).

I don't understand why the sudden change, nor why Word won't "save" the last setting I have it on. Is there anyway to change the default to vertical and keep it that way?

Thanks

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Anonymous
2017-11-28T14:33:08+00:00

I had the same problem. You just need to add the key.

Exit out of Word.

In Regedit, find 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Word'

Add the key 'Last View', then in there add a D-Word 'WordViewStateUsePageStackArrangement', leave the value as the default (zero).

Restart Word.

Worked for me.

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-11-28T15:49:59+00:00

    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Word\Last View

    there is a sub-key called

    WordViewStateUsePageStackArrangement.

    If that key is set to 1, it is side-to-side. a value of 0  or no key at all, is Vertical

    What is the data "type" of the key.

    Funny thing. I don't have this problem.

    But when I searched my registry (to find the key data type for my notes for future use, ie the question I asked above) I did not find that key or the "Last View" also.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-11-28T15:28:41+00:00

    BTW, like you and Kevin, I too, obviously, did not have the Last View key

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-11-28T15:23:05+00:00

    I'm glad that creating the reg key worked, but there is definitely a bug here somewhere. We are discussing this with the Word engineering team. I'll post updates as soon as I know more.

    Thanks,

    Mike

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-11-28T15:13:27+00:00

    So far so good...worked for me too...good grief, thanks!  Windows 10  64bit PC  Office 365 Word 2016

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