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From: BrigSop on 23 Jan 2010 13:28
Windows Vista Home
Word 2007

My wife has been complaining about her documents automatically and without
warning going into Draft Mode. She then can't figure out a way to get back
to Normal view. The program just won't go back to normal once this happens
and believe me, she has done all the obvious things.
From: Stefan Blom on 23 Jan 2010 14:45
Normally, the view is saved with the document; see
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/general/SaveViewAndZoom.htm.

However, to force a certain view in all documents that you open in Word, you
will have to make use of auto macros. For example:

Sub AutoOpen()
ActiveWindow.View.Type = 3 'print layout
ActiveWindow.View.Zoom.Percentage = 100

End Sub

Sub AutoNew()
ActiveWindow.View.Type = 3 'print layout
ActiveWindow.View.Zoom.Percentage = 100
End Sub

If you need assistance, see http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"BrigSop" <BrigSop(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:C5B5C898-D65A-481A-96DE-635549213424(a)microsoft.com...
> Windows Vista Home
> Word 2007
>
> My wife has been complaining about her documents automatically and without
> warning going into Draft Mode. She then can't figure out a way to get
> back
> to Normal view. The program just won't go back to normal once this
> happens
> and believe me, she has done all the obvious things.


From: Pamelia Caswell via OfficeKB.com on 23 Jan 2010 18:42
"Draft" is the W2007 name for "normal". It looks and acts the same as
normal view in previous versions.

MS called this view "normal" to encourage people to use it, because Word used
fewer computer resources when it didn't have to display images and repaginate
on the fly. My guess is that MS changed the name to something more neutral
(draft) because they no longer have to discourage people from using
page/print layout view. Newer computers and software handle those things
speedily.

Pam

BrigSop wrote:
>Windows Vista Home
>Word 2007
>
>My wife has been complaining about her documents automatically and without
>warning going into Draft Mode. She then can't figure out a way to get back
>to Normal view. The program just won't go back to normal once this happens
>and believe me, she has done all the obvious things.

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From: Stefan Blom on 24 Jan 2010 07:43
Also, "Normal" could be confusing, since Word has a paragraph style and a
template both of which are called Normal.

--
Stefan Blom
Microsoft Word MVP



"Pamelia Caswell via OfficeKB.com" <u43222(a)uwe> wrote in message
news:a28ffff1a7abb(a)uwe...
> "Draft" is the W2007 name for "normal". It looks and acts the same as
> normal view in previous versions.
>
> MS called this view "normal" to encourage people to use it, because Word
> used
> fewer computer resources when it didn't have to display images and
> repaginate
> on the fly. My guess is that MS changed the name to something more
> neutral
> (draft) because they no longer have to discourage people from using
> page/print layout view. Newer computers and software handle those things
> speedily.
>
> Pam
>
> BrigSop wrote:
>>Windows Vista Home
>>Word 2007
>>
>>My wife has been complaining about her documents automatically and without
>>warning going into Draft Mode. She then can't figure out a way to get
>>back
>>to Normal view. The program just won't go back to normal once this
>>happens
>>and believe me, she has done all the obvious things.
>
> --
> Message posted via OfficeKB.com
> http://www.officekb.com/Uwe/Forums.aspx/word-pagelayout/201001/1
>


From: Pamelia Caswell via OfficeKB.com on 24 Jan 2010 10:08
Tell me about it. But if that was the reason for changing it now, I'd have
to give them triple bad marks for not thinking of that 15 or 20 years ago.
But don't get me started...


Stefan Blom wrote:
>Also, "Normal" could be confusing, since Word has a paragraph style and a
>template both of which are called Normal.
>
>> "Draft" is the W2007 name for "normal". It looks and acts the same as
>> normal view in previous versions.
>[quoted text clipped - 20 lines]
>>>happens
>>>and believe me, she has done all the obvious things.

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