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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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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.
I agree with you and the original poster. We now know how to change the setting within a specific document, but are more interested in getting the program to default to vertical view upon opening all documents.
Hello SuSu,
We definitely understand the want for the program to be placing the settings as expected rather than forcing the program to open specific files as desired. We have read through this thread and see the steps that have been tried and are looking to see if there is anything further that can be done.
From the testing done on a Surface Studio directly after an office installation, Microsoft Office programs should be able to function as expected and default to opening every Word document in a vertical scrolling view. We were unable to replicate the issue described on our own Surface Studio.
On the Surface Studio we installed Microsoft Office 365, then opened Word 2016 and selected the horizontal view and closed Word and restarted the Surface Studio. Any documents opened afterwards will show up in the previously designated horizontal view. When we change the setting back to vertical view and close Word and restart the Surface Studio, any word documents opened afterwards are opened in the vertical view.
Again, we are looking further into this functionality and will respond if any helpful information is found regarding this situation.
Thank you~
Mason L.
Microsoft Surface Support
Hi Mason:
Thank you for your attention to this matter. As I'm sure you've seen, others beyond just SuSu and myself (the original poster) have had difficulties. We appreciate any assistance you can provide.
Thanks again,
Kevin
Hi Mason:
Thank you for your attention to this matter. As I'm sure you've seen, others beyond just SuSu and myself (the original poster) have had difficulties. We appreciate any assistance you can provide.
Thanks again,
Kevin
Hi Kevin- Perhaps there was no misunderstanding, but just to be clear, I wanted to affirm that if you save the Normal.dotm file (in Microsoft Templates) with the zoom at 120%, then by default, all new documents will open with page movement in vertical mode (with of course 120% zoom). That might be an undesirable (and certainly unnecessary) work around to the side by side scroll issue, but, it does work on all new docs opened, not just the one being currently worked on.
