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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.
This works only if you have the software that enables it. This is installed by default on tablets and some laptops but is not present on all desktops (especially those as old as mine). Believe me, it does not work on mine.
When I finally got around to actually trying this, I found that I did not have (and could not get) the required display software to make this possible.
Suzanne
If you are using Windows the Ctrl-Alt-Arrow Key should do it. Uparrow is normal orientation, downarrow is upside down, left and right turn the screen through 90 degrees.
(I seem to recall that there is a setting somewhere to turn this facility off. It was considered, by some of the more juvenile minded in my office, as a good prank at one point.
I have found another answer on another thread:
"View One Page @ 100% in Word 2010"
Please see the solution suggested by Crombinator, at the bottom of the thread. Repeating it here:
It seems to work for me.
When I got my current 4:3 monitor, one of the selling points was that it can be rotated to portrait orientation. When I finally got around to actually trying this, I found that I did not have (and could not get) the required display software to make this possible. It is certainly true, though, that no monitor is well adapted to displaying a portrait page, and widescreen monitors are much worse (they seem to be designed for showing movies). This may account for much of the appeal of tablet PCs that can be rotated to portrait orientation.