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
    2010-08-31T13:09:52+00:00

    You seem determined not to accept the facts of the matter - but Word has indeed always behaved in this way. Simply arguing because you think you are right, when you are not, is not going to take this any farther forward.

    You are seeing the change because you have improved your hardware. If you work with a high resolution large screen monitor in full screen view then unless you work in windowed mode, the Word page is always going to be offset. For least the the third time

    • you need to reduce the screen resolution, reduce the width of the window and or increase the zoom.. That's the way it works!

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  2. Jay Freedman 208.3K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2010-08-31T12:19:43+00:00

    I have Word 2003, 2007, and 2010 on this computer. They behave similarly but not identically.

    With each Word version maximized on a 23-inch monitor at 1680x1050 resolution, a one-page document is centered in the window at zoom percentages above these values:

    Word 2003    93%

    Word 2007    95%

    Word 2010    97%

    If the resolution of the screen is set higher, the threshold percentages would be higher too.

    I can also confirm that there are no settings or options that affect the behavior -- only the screen resolution, the window width, and the zoom percentage are involved.

    My advice would be to accept what you called a "windowed environment". Set the Word window narrower -- about the same as the maximum length of the ribbon.

    Jay Freedman

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

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  3. Anonymous
    2010-08-31T11:49:10+00:00

    Excuse me, but there is no way that word has "always" been like this, so that is just flat out false. I figure if you are willing to make a claim like that, others will be more helpful. Please do not post here again; I do not want to have to re-post my concerns.

    Standing concerns:

    -Can anyone confirm that Word 2007, 2003, XP, and 2000 exhibit the behavior in which a document is automatically left justified or centered according to monitor resolution and zoom level?  (I am willing to downgrade to avoid this issue.)

    -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? I want to disable the viewing of two document pages at once, so that a single document pane is centered in the middle of the screen, at any zoom setting that I desire.

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  4. Anonymous
    2010-08-30T13:09:59+00:00

    This has always been the way Word behaves. Make your Word window narrower or your view zoom level higher.

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