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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  2. Anonymous
    2017-11-30T18:42:09+00:00

    I probably shouldn't be messing with the Registry given that I'm barely following the instructions up to the "/word" portion, but I can't stand the side scroll default anymore.

    With that in mind, would you attach a couple screenshots for adding the key? Navigating up to that point was easy, but this is where I start to freak out about breaking everything when I do it wrong (everything is backed up, fyi).

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-11-29T01:24:53+00:00

    Worked for me too!!

    Awesome!

    Thanks!!

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-11-29T00:17:22+00:00

    Worked for me, too! Thank goodness. I've struggled daily with this bug for a year on my Microsoft Surface Studio machine. Finally fixed, woohoo!

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