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. 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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  2. Paul Edstein 82,871 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2011-05-02T09:19:27+00:00

    Hi Stefan

    All you'd need is for the AutoNew macro to call the AutoOpen macro - no need to duplicate the code. I actually have a 'Document_New' macro in the Normal template's 'This Document' module coded that way:

    Private Sub Document_New()

    Call AutoOpen

    End Sub

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  3. Stefan Blom 352.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2011-05-02T08:37:41+00:00

    Thanks for sharing your code.

    I'd imagine that a similar AutoNew macro would be helpful as well (if you don't trust that all the templates that you are using have the proper settings).

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  4. Paul Edstein 82,871 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2011-05-01T21:39:22+00:00

    But if you want to force this setting on all documents, ones that you create as well as those you receive from others, a couple of auto macro surely would be helpful?

    Yes, that could be helpful (though only one macro is needed). I use one on my own system:

    Sub AutoOpen()

    With ActiveWindow

      'Reduce flickering while changing settings

      .Visible = False

      'Switch to Print Preview mode

      If .View.SplitSpecial = wdPaneNone Then

        .ActivePane.View.Type = wdPrintView

      Else

        .View.Type = wdPrintView

      End If

      With .ActivePane.View.Zoom

        'Set for a 1-page view

        .PageColumns = 1

        'Initialize for best fit

        .PageFit = wdPageFitBestFit

        'Test zoom % and reduce to 125% max

        If .Percentage > 125 Then .Percentage = 125

      End With

      'Restore the window now that we're finished

      .Visible = True

    End With

    End Sub

    The macro I use actually has a couple more lines, for displaying the document's path in the title bar and for displaying the ruler. As you can see, I don't blindly force documents to a particular percentage if they won't display on screen at that zoom level (eg landscape or over-sized documents).

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