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
    2017-10-27T12:25:12+00:00

    If you click Vertical in the Page Movement group on the View tab, that would turn off Side To Side, and the Vertical setting should be sticky. Are you saying that it is not?

    Hi Stefan,

    Yes, that's the whole point. The view always defaults to Side to Side. We understand that it can be manually changed to Vertical, but it remains an annoying extra step every time a document is opened or created.

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  2. Stefan Blom 352.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2017-10-27T12:04:35+00:00

    If you click Vertical in the Page Movement group on the View tab, that would turn off Side To Side, and the Vertical setting should be sticky. Are you saying that it is not?

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-10-26T03:22:15+00:00

    I am having the same exact issue

    I am on Surface Studio

    Windows 10 Pro

    Office 365 ProPlus

    My Word is defaulting to Side to Side view

    I tried editing the Normal.dotm file

    I tried the registry change

    I tried setting the zoom to 120%

    Nothing worked!

    There's obviously a glitch somewhere and I hope Microsoft can find it and fix it quickly

    Are there any other suggestions?

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  4. Stefan Blom 352.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2017-08-30T11:40:07+00:00

    You can post feedback on the options in the Page Movement group for Microsoft. Go to http://word.uservoice.com.

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