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
    2010-08-31T13:04:00+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.

     

    The fact that you don't like the answer doesn't mean it is wrong.

    I get the same as Jay using 1600 x 1200.  Below a certain percentage zoom the word 'page' moves progressively left.

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  2. 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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  3. Anonymous
    2010-08-31T13:11:54+00:00

    I’ve got a 22” monitor running 1920 x 1080 and I need 114% to go down to a single centred page (though I use 120% for obvious reasons).

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    Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

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  4. Suzanne S Barnhill 279.4K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2010-08-31T13:36:16+00:00

    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.

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