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
    2017-08-29T14:00:48+00:00

    Hi Kevin:

    I assume still no resolution on this issue?  Other posters are correct in that the 120% zoom template save, really doesn't save ;)

    Thanks, 

    Paul

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  2. Stefan Blom 352.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2017-08-29T19:36:57+00:00

    If you want to save the zoom with a particular file, the solution is to make use of Jay Freedman's add-in. See https://jay-freedman.info/.

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  3. Anonymous
    2017-08-29T20:28:14+00:00

    Hi Paul:

    Nope! Word itself still is defaulting to horizontal viewing. Moreover, saving the zoom setting misses the point (and, therefore, isn't a real solution).

    I'm somewhat adjusted to this issue on my Surface Studio...by using my Surface Pro 4 which doesn't exhibit the same behavior. lol.

    Thanks for checking in,

    Kevin

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  4. Anonymous
    2017-08-29T21:08:32+00:00

    Hi Paul:

    Nope! Word itself still is defaulting to horizontal viewing. Moreover, saving the zoom setting misses the point (and, therefore, isn't a real solution).

    I'm somewhat adjusted to this issue on my Surface Studio...by using my Surface Pro 4 which doesn't exhibit the same behavior. lol.

    Thanks for checking in,

    Kevin

    OK, wow, that seems remarkably indifferent to the issue on the part of Microsoft...but perhaps they don't consider this "feature" as an issue...?

    Thanks again,

    Paul

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