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

MS Word MVP  FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

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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
    2014-10-14T03:29:03+00:00

    I viewed documents at One Page/100% for ages until it suddenly decided to show two pages or a single-page document on the left of the screen a couple of days ago.  It's been sending me nuts since. In trying some of the things above, it wasn't helping much.  Then, for no particular reason, I decided to click on the View Ruler icon at the top right (above the Page Up/Down slide) to see what would happen.  Guess what!  It reverted to the One Page/100% view.  I must have clicked it accidentally the other day.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-09-18T20:08:03+00:00

    Go to Control Panel>Display>Change Display Settings>

    Lower the Resolution setting by one "notch" then view your Word document.  If that worked, great!  If not, lower the "notch" one more time.  My two-page layout problem got fixed when I used the 1680 x 1050 setting.  I now have a single page automatically set to a 100% zoom level.  Perfect!

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-06-13T08:03:42+00:00

    Probably better to increase the zoom ratio using the zoom slider.

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