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. Stefan Blom 352.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2017-04-16T20:58:33+00:00

    See if switching between Touch Mode and Mouse Mode makes a difference.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-04-13T22:53:46+00:00

    I also have a Surface Studio running Windows 10/ Word 2016, and this issue just appeared for me in early April.  Prior to that, I did not have this problem.  Microsoft must have changed something in a late March/early April update that is affecting those of us on the Surface Studio.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-04-11T20:11:47+00:00

    According to Microsoft, the registry key that controls this behavior is HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Word\Last View\WordViewStateUsePageStackArrangement. Exit Word, delete that key and see if it fixes the problem.

    Hi Stefan:

    Thanks for the registry key. I've done a search through my registry, and that key is not found. Does it matter that I'm running Office 365?

    Thanks,

    Kevin

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  4. Stefan Blom 352.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2017-04-11T19:21:00+00:00

    According to Microsoft, the registry key that controls these settings is HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Word\Last View\WordViewStateUsePageStackArrangement. Exit Word, delete that key and see if it fixes the problem.

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