Word 2007 displays two pages next to each other in my documents instead of one.

Anonymous
2010-08-22T12:31:25+00:00

Hey, I have this problem where Word 2007 displays two pages next to each other instead of just one. In display options I can select show only one page, but this changes the size to 73% and that's not big enough for me. If I change the size to 100% after that it reverts to show two pages next to each other. If there is only one page in the document that page is shown in the left side of Word instead of in the middle. I have found a workaround where I first click web layout, and then back to print layout and it will show as normal until I close the document and open it again. So I'm just wondering if there is a permanent solution to my problem. This problem started when I installed Word 2007.

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Anonymous
2010-08-24T00:56:13+00:00

You're seeing this because you have the Word window sized extremely wide on a high-resolution 1680x1050 display. If you want to see just one page in the center of the Word window at 100% zoom, drag

the right edge of the window to the left so it's nearly the same width as the ribbon.

Word makes its decision of how many pages to display on the basis of the current width of the page (as set by the zoom factor) compared to the current width of the client window (the blue space). If

it can fit two pages, then it will show two pages -- there is no way to tell it not to. Because you want a specific zoom (100%), the only factor you can adjust is the window width.

Jay Freedman

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Anonymous
2012-02-16T03:01:09+00:00

Just found a fourth way to fix this annoying problem.

For me, it has been recurring on one old document, but not on any other documents I have.

Go to Page Layout, Size and change to a different size (for me I changed from A4 to A5).

Then go and change the setting back ( for me, to A4).

No more problems for me.

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-08-23T14:32:00+00:00

    Click the "One Page" button in the Zoom section.  What happens then?

    Brian Tillman [MVP-Outlook]

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  2. Anonymous
    2010-08-23T12:43:33+00:00

    Hmm, this is weird. When I opened up word today it was showing just one page as it should (in a clean document at 100% zoom). But the problem is still there if I open the document I created yesterday (or any day before that). I have no idea what is different this time.

    I did some testing though, and while the new document is normal when I start it, and it's normal if I write in that document even if it becomes more than one page. But if I save that document, and open it again, it will not work properly anymore.

    This is how it looks, as you can see it's in print layout at 100% zoom: http://imgur.com/NmLOU.jpg (would have made it much easier if I had English word instead of a Danish version though). If I click weblayout and then printlayout again it goes back to normal too, until I close the document and open it again.

    Edit: Now it's back at being weird when I start a new document. This is how it looks like, word just opened, empty template, no settings made:http://imgur.com/n1oyG.jpg

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-08-22T16:18:51+00:00

    Yes, I'm using print layout and normal template.

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