Hi Gil, hope you don't mind, but I'm going to put this answer on the list, as I think a lot of people both would be interested, and will know more than I do about the answer.
I think the difference between print and normal views in Word is mostly visual. in the print view, Word tries to make the screen look as much like the printed page as possible. this means it shows you all the white space which are the page margins, and the headers and footers for each page. this takes up a lot of screen room to do this. in normal view all the white space, and the headers and footers are not shown. for a screen reader, this mostly isn't noticeable, but there are some differences in the way document content is shown which may be noticeable. one such difference I recall is when the Word structure called columns are used. here, in print view, multiple columns are shown side-by-side, and I guess WE reads the line across, and you hear a bit from each column. in normal mode, columns are shown as one long continuous column, so you can read all the way down it, and hear it spoken properly. I'm not sure of other differences without going to look it up, so maybe others will chime in as to why it is desired to be in normal view. I myself never seem to use normal view. hth, Chip ------------------------------ Chip Orange Database Administrator Florida Public Service Commission [email protected] (850) 413-6314 (Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Florida Public Service Commission.) > -----Original Message----- > From: Pastor Gil Pries [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 10:17 AM > To: Chip Orange > Subject: Re: Word 2007 Question > > Hi Chip, > I have the home edition of word 2007. > It defaults to print layout. > What is the difference between print layout and normal view? > I don't know how to do stuff in the templates. > Is it better to keep things in print layout? > Thanks, > Pastor Gil > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Chip Orange" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 6:58 AM > Subject: RE: Word 2007 Question > > > Hi Andy, > > the "view" of a document is saved in the document itself. so, if you > open a document for reading, and you change the view, and then you do > not save the document, then your view change is lost. > > Or, if you open a different document, your view change may be lost if > the new document is set to a different view. > > This can be worked-around by putting a one line macro, named AutoOpen, > and a second named AutoNew, in your normal template. > > The one line to put in these macros is: > > ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdNormalView > > and this should always start you, in any document, in normal view. if > you do this, even if you change the view to say print layout and save > the document, you should know that when you reopen the > document later it > will go back to normal view. > > hth, > > Chip > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Chip Orange > Database Administrator > Florida Public Service Commission > > [email protected] > (850) 413-6314 > > (Any opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not > necessarily reflect those of the Florida Public Service Commission.) > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Andy Baracco [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Thursday, August 06, 2009 8:20 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: Word 2007 Question > > > > I would like to know that one as well. Whenever I change the view, > > it reverts back the next time i start Word. > > > > Andy > > At 10:46 PM 8/5/2009, you wrote: > > >Hi, > > >In word 2007, how do I change the view from print layout to > > normal view? > > >Thanks, > > >Pastor Gil > > > > > >If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original > > >sender only. If your reply would benefit others on the list and > > >your message is related to GW Micro, then please consider sending > > >your message to [email protected] so the entire list will > > receive it. > > > > > >All GW-Info messages are archived at http://www.gwmicro.com/gwinfo, > > >and can be searched through and sorted using the search > > >form at the bottom of the page. > > >If you wish to unsubscribe from this list, send a message to > > >[email protected] and include leave gw-info in the body > > of the message. > > > > > > > > > If you reply to this message it will be delivered to the original > > sender only. 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