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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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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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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?
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
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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.
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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