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
    2017-04-10T12:33:38+00:00

    Make sure that only one document window is open and then choose the Vertical option. Exit and restart Word. Does that make the setting stick?

    Thank you, but that wasn't it. It happens with only one document open. I've tried old documents that were created in an older version of Word as well as creating new ones. Can't get that vertical view to stick at all since installing Office 2016.

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  2. Stefan Blom 352.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2017-04-10T11:25:06+00:00

    Make sure that only one document window is open and then choose the Vertical option. Exit and restart Word. Does that make the setting stick?

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-04-09T12:13:23+00:00

    Thanks, but I don't think that was the original poster's exact issue. I'm having the same problem with Word defaulting to this side-by-side view. Yes, we can change it back to vertical every time we open a document (and, thus enable the zoom slider at the bottom of the page) but it would be preferable to have documents default to the vertical view in the first place.

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  4. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2017-04-08T01:55:26+00:00

    Increase the zoom ratio by using the slider at the bottom right of the window.

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