two pages in print view

[Tracey]

Hi there

Hopefully one of you office gurus can help me with this annoying problem.

I have office 2003. Sometimes, in some documents, two pages are displayed side-by-side in my viewer, dispite being set to print view. If I click the "view one page" button word zooms in. If i zoom back out i get 2 pages again. Personally this view drives me nuts and i would like to reset these documents to normal 1 page view in print view.

Also, some NEW documents open in this view and are doomed to always drive me insane. Can anyone here shed some light on how i change this???

TIA

Tracey



Tracey
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[SkipVought]

Hi,

It appears that clicking the Allow Multiple Pages button TOGGLES between multiple and ONE.

Skip,

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[Tracey]

Hi and thanks for replying Skip

any idea where i would find this button? I dont have it on my toolbar and cant find it in the customization categories (eg "view")



Tracey
Remember... True happiness is not getting what you want...

Its wanting what you have got!

 

[SkipVought]

It in the Print Preview toolbar.

Skip,

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[Tracey]

ah
no i had tried that, clicking the multiple pages button and selection only 1.

this doesnt seem to effect my normal view

Tracey
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Its wanting what you have got!

 

[SkipVought]

The side by side is View/Reading Layout.

You could choose another view.

Skip,

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[Tracey]

i have, my problem is in print view not reading view

Tracey
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[HughLerwill]

Tracy,

I guess we are talking about Ms Word here and documents in its Print Layout view.
If magnification % (on the Standard toolbar) is set to a low value eg. 50% you may get more than one page displayed. Increase it (say to 120%) until only one page fits on screen.

HTH Hugh,

 

[fumei]

That is correct. It depends on your printer driver - which affects all aspects of how Word is displayed on screen. If the magnification in PrintView gets low enough Word will make two pages for display.

For me the cutoff is 46%. At 46% (in PrintView) two pages are displayed. At 47% one page is displayed.

There is some - irony? - here.

If I select Whole Page from the magnification dropdown Word will display ONE page, with the magnification showing as being 38%. However, if 38% is explicitly set as the magnification - say set it for 70% then back to 38% - then TWO pages are displayed, as this is below the cutoff.

This is because explicitly selecting Whole Page sets a property in Word - PageFit = wdPageFitFullPage. Changing the magnification number does NOT set the PageFit property.

In any case, Hugh is correct. Play around with your magnification until one page is displayed. I don't know about 120% though.....unless you have very high resolution on your monitor, then between 50 and 60 percent should do it.

Gerry
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[Tracey]

Sound viable, but previously(and sometimes still) i have been able to work with and edit my docs at 75% which is my preferred view. Only sometimes at 75% i get the two page problem, in fact when i open a new document it sits on the left hand side of the window with room for a phantom page to the right.

Good ol' M$ "random features"

Tracey
Remember... True happiness is not getting what you want...

Its wanting what you have got!

 

[tf1]

Try this: open a blank normal page and then use Format, Columns and select one column by clicking the icon - even if it seems to already be selected. Close the dialog. Now check again. Has that resolved the issue?


Regards: tf1

 

[Tracey]

nope

Tracey
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Its wanting what you have got!

 

[2ndWard]

Tracey

Tools=>Options=>General(tab)=> uncheck "Allow Starting in Reading Layout".
Close
Open New Blank Document

Help?

2ndWard, EUSA-WV

 

[Tracey]

nope

I am opening in print view anyway not reading view.

I think perhaps a re-install...

Tracey
Remember... True happiness is not getting what you want...

Its wanting what you have got!

 

[HughLerwill]

fumie,

Ref your 46%

I'm thinking this issue is much affected by screen properties. I'm using a Windows Desktop res of 1920 * 1200 pixels at 120DPI on a wide format 15.4 inch display just now and I get two pages displayed side by side right up to 90% (91% gives one page) magnification with no tweaks. On another machine (albiet with Word XP) with 1600 * 1200 pixels at 96DPI on 19 inch normal format crt display 95% mag is the lowest giving me one page.

Switching the printer (from HP6127 to Adobe Acrobat Distiller) for the document changes the view of the document slightly (probably due to margin changes) but the two/ one page threshold of 90%/ 91% is not changed.

For comfortable editing on this (15.4 inch) machine I generally use 100% magnification, as has been my experience when using machines using the standard 96 DPI. At 96 DPI on this machine I think I may well have to use something like 120% magnification for comfortable editing but then the text on all the menus would be tiny and nearly unusable.

Tracy,
I wonder what your display properties are like. At 75% mag I think you may giving your eyes a hard time.

regards Hugh

 

[fumei]

I'm thinking this issue is much affected by screen properties.

Well...yes. It is TOTALLY affected by screen properties. At such high resolution as 1920 x 1200...yeah I can believe 90% will still give two pages.

It is completely dependent on screen properties.

My point was that one has to find whatever is the magnification that will do the switch.

I do not have such high resolution...so mine is at 46%.

Gerry
My paintings and sculpture

 

[Tracey]

Hi Guys
I have my res at 1680x1050 on my 15.4" screen and have had for the 2.5 yrs I have had my machine. Just odd that this happens suddenly without my changing any settings. My printer settings havent changed for the last 12 months.

Sure 75% may be being tough on my eyes but they are still coping ok and i have no problems with the size. I work with 10 verdana which is somewhat bigger and easier to read than most fonts at 10.

Still, my issue is with the sudden change in functionality. I could put it down to windows updates or anything but .. call me pedantic but i like my software to behave consistently.

Anyway, have tried a repair install but no avail. will uninstall and reinstall if still nothing to do at work tomorrow

Tracey
Remember... True happiness is not getting what you want...

Its wanting what you have got!

 

[tf1]

Windows update will sometime include hardware drivers. I've had Windows update nVidia, Epson and Realtek hardware. So although you may not have specifically updated any hardware, updates may have slipped by unnoticed.


Regards: tf1

 

[fumei]

The point being is that it IS a driver issue, and Word is just doing its thing.

1680x1050? Yikes, my monitor is a 19", and my graphics card can certainly do that resolution, but I darn well would not be able to SEE anything!

Gerry
My paintings and sculpture

 

[HughLerwill]

fumei,

Re your capability to do 1680*1050 or higher but not being able to see. With high resolutions try increasing the DPI in Windows display props to say 120 dpi. Things will end up the same (ish) size but you will have more resolution (dots) on the screen and it may look better. My laptop screen at 1920*1200 (native) is unusable at the standard 96 DPI, have tried 150 DPI, but 120 DPI suits me best and on-screen font rendition is great.
Have found that messing with DPI on my 19 inch crt is less satisfying (I can't see to make it look better). So I keep that set to 96 DPI and use desktop resolution to control the size of stuff on the screen.

Tracy,
Sorry you are having such trouble.

regards Hugh,