Centering the page in center of your monitor

Whether Word displays in two page view or one page view is automatically determined by the Word window size, the zoom level and the current resolution of the monitor. You can see the point at which the transition occurs for a given windows size by zooming 1 percent at a time from the Zoom dialog.

I can definitely say that Word 2003 behaves in the desired way on my desktop, and I imagine that Word 2007/2010 would have the undesirable behavior on my laptop. But that's because the laptop is a widescreen, and the desktop has the traditional 3:4 monitor. If I replaced it with a widescreen, I imagine I'd see two pages, too, and I would be equally unhappy. I agree that there should be some way to choose. There are times when you want to see a single whole page, period.

FWIW, I can display either a single whole page (at 78%) or two side-by-side whole pages (at 72%) in Print Preview in Word 2003. Occasionally PP gets confused and refuses to respond to the One Page and Multiple Pages buttons on the toolbar, but it will definitely do either.

Thanks, but I do not want huge text nor do I want to work in a windowed environment. No software that contributes to causing physical discomfort or pain is worth using.

I find it very hard to believe that word has always been like this. Can anyone confirm that Word 2007, 2003, XP, and 2000 exhibit the same behavior?

Can anyone else chime in on whether there is some modification -anything - that can be made to stop this behavior in any version of Word?

Hi Graham, Thanks for the response.

Several questions -

1. is there a way, anyway (including registry hacks) to change this behavior? I will almost never want 2 pages displayed at once. I cannot type a document while looking at at the far left side of a screen. This means my entire setup forces me to sit at an angle, and look at an angle. I can't believe that this behavior couldn't be changed; it is an ergonomic nightmare.... I am willing to prevent a two pane view entirely.

Might it be possible to make word think that the document is being opened on a smaller monitor? or a way to edit normal.dot to remove this functionality?

2. if there is no way, can you tell me which version of word was the first to implement this unavoidable "feature"? I upgraded to 2010 with a new monitor so I am not sure. I am thinking of downgrading or trying alternative solutions. I can't afford the discomfort and neck pain that will develop from having to literally turn my entire head, and contort my body, to see in this current setup.