view only one page on the screen at a time

Hi,

The reply is among those above – but to keep it simple: the easiest thing to do is just reduce the size of the window word is working in. Best of luck.

I think what trumpy9404 (and lilly74) are asking is how do you view one page only (centered) in Word while retaining the zoom level at 100%. Terry, you can always enforce a one-page, centered view by choosing a high enough zoom level, but who wants to work with print that big?

This question has been asked before in other forums, but no one at Microsoft or elsewhere seems to have an answer.  The problem occurs in Word 2007, and to my surprise it has even been carried through to Word 2010 without a fix.  Some people (including me) simply don't like the two-page layout in Word, and just want one page on the screen, centered, at 100%.  Word doesn't seem to be able to provide that.

With today's wider screens the problem is simply exacerbated.  The level of zoom which you need to go to to achieve a single-page, centered view is simply unworkable.

It surprises me that this problem has been allowed to persist, and has not been fixed in the latest versions of Word.  So, is there a setting buried somewhere in the depths of Word 2007 and Word 2010 which no one has found, or do we just look forward to Microsoft waking up by 2013?

Not sure if you ever found the answer to this...but I have Word 2007 on Windows 7 machine and went looking for an answer to it...found this one....

Check for the settings under “View” tab. “Print Layout” is the option that has to be checked. If this does not work click “View à Zoom” and then set the value to 100%.

But when I went into the view tab there is a button for "one page" and also a button for "two pages" and I clicked on the "one page" and it totally fixed it.  Microsoft takes SO long to fix things but looks like this one is fixed.

This will certainly work if you are working in a "normal" window; it is not helpful if you run Word maximized.

I was frustrated with this, and then my wife suggested something that was ridiculously easy -- simply grab the lower right hand corner of the window and move it to the left. The window automatically scales from a two-page view to a single page view. This is connected to your actual project, so if you save it in either format (one-page/two-page), the next time you load that document it will preserve that same format.