Centering the page in center of your monitor

Anonymous
2010-08-30T08:43:41+00:00

How do I center a page in the center of my monitor? I go to view > 1 page, but if I do that, although the page is centered, as soon as I zoom in, the entire page is set off to the left, as if it were in a 2 page view. I want to fix my view at one page, centered in the middle of my screen, with any zoom level I like.

using msword 2010, w7 64, 1920x1080 monitor

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Anonymous
2010-09-06T09:06:51+00:00

I learn something new about Word every day ...

I have to go out and can't check this properly at the moment (and the behaviour seems a little odd at first glance) but there is a setting in VBA - Zoom.PageColumns - that (partially) controls what you want. I will dig a little further on my return.

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  1. Anonymous
    2011-08-15T11:55:06+00:00

    I have recently replaced my monitor with a 24" wide screen at 1920 x 1080 and I display Word documents at 100% at which the on screen page width is almost identical to the size of the paper it represents (it's actually about 1mm larger).

    I can put two complete Word windows side by side in the available screen area, but normally I will display only a single Word window stretched sufficiently to accommodate the extra tools I have on the ribbons. The Word window thus fills about 2 thirds of the available screen area. In this respect the Word window is pretty much the same width as on my old 4:3 monitor. (With Word 2003, I tend to display a slightly smaller window - and put floating toolbars off the Word area).

    At no time does Word display two pages in the window at 100% zoom. However if I view Word at ful screen, it displays 2 pages at 100% zoom. The times when I would need to run Word full screen are so few that it hasn't occurred since I replaced the monitor.

    So you do have the option to choose, by simply reducing the width of the Word screen a tad.

    Frankly it is the lack of height of the word screen that causes me more problems. The screen is simply not tall enough to display a full page at 100% zoom, but this is an issue I have lived with for years.

    Screen height is however a more annoying issue on my laptop :(

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  2. Suzanne S Barnhill 279.4K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2011-08-14T16:28:40+00:00

    This will still be dependent on monitor aspect ratio and resolution.

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  3. Anonymous
    2011-08-14T15:10:58+00:00

    Select "ruler" and "Navigation Pane" and you'll get what you want. 100% one page centered.

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  4. Stefan Blom 352.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2011-05-02T13:16:14+00:00

    OK, thanks, I didn't think of that. My solution would have been having a third macro that both AutoNew and AutoOpen then would call.

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