"Read Mode" in Word 2013 does not look as the "Take a Tour" document says - wonder why so?

If you just want to see how the book (facing pages) will look when made into a book (whether or not you're using "Book fold"), you can do this in Print Preview. If you add the Print Preview Edit Mode command to the Quick Access toolbar, you can get the "classic" Print Preview, which allows you to edit the document (you have to disable the magnifier).

You can easily get a two-page spread in Print Preview; to get facing pages, you have to have enabled either "Different Odd and Even" for headers and footers or "Mirror margins" (or both), either of which will indicate to Word that you intend to duplex the document.

But Read Mode isn't supposed to be a what-you-see-is-what-you-get view. It's supposed to make reading documents on screen easier.      

Re: "Read Mode isn't supposed to be a what-you-see-is-what-you-get view"? 

	Please see this icon.<br> <br><br>What does it look like?<br> <br><br>Does it not look like a book?

Re: "Read Mode supposed to make reading documents on screen easier."

	How much easier does it make in comparison to Print Layout?

Note that although Read Mode has existed for a while (under different names), it has been redesigned a few times, so you can't really compare to what was in Word 2007.

Well, let's see what changes were made and to what advantage?

This is word 2007 ribbon. It has no Read Mode. It has Two Page view.

This is word 2013 ribbon. It has Read Mode. It has no Page view.

Does this convey that Read Mode was introduced in Word 2013 to substitute Two Page view of Word 2007 and therefore Microsoft chose this icon for Read Mode which, very clearly, is set in two page view.

And to what advantage? To rob the benefit earlier system offered!

Making changes for sake of change is not prudent. It must serve some purpose.

At least, not kill something that was functional.

Re: so you can't really compare to what was in Word 2007

Yes, there is a very good reason to compare.

It is no good saying "you can't compare" without bothering to understand why those changes were made, in first place, and did they serve, or, kill the purpose.

Thanks for the clarification. Of course, Google Search and Internet Explorer are off-topic in this thread.

I shall bring home the point why mention thereof was not out of place.

This is Word 2007 Page Setup -

Now compare it with Word 2013 Page Setup -

Do you see any difference?

They look alike.

And yet, one consistently delivered the result, the other plainly fails to do that.

What Microsoft did with Google Search and Internet Explorer was fairly similar. Win 7 consistently delivered a specific result, whereas Win 8.1 failed in consistently delivering the same result.

Those were off-topic and these are on-topic. Together they convey practically same thing.

It is not prudent to rob the benefit earlier system by making changes for sake of change, without serving the purpose, and killing something that was functional.