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How do I Stop Word Switching to Multiple Pages View
The steps you listed (in an unedited version of your reply) will only work for older versions of Word in which it was still possible to save the view and zoom with individual documents.
Word 2013 and later do not let you store view options in an individual document or template. Instead, Word starts with the settings that you specified in the last open document in the previous session (at least that is how it is supposed to work nowadays).
To restore the behavior of pre-Word 2013, use Jay Freedman's add-in, called SaveViewLocMulti (see https://jay-freedman.info/).
It's heartening that there is interest in this! I'm not sure about third-party macros as a solution in a professional context, where they are often blocked or discouraged. However, if I read the description correctly, Jay Freedman's macro would in any case still only solve it for documents that I had previously opened. What I believe the original poster, and certainly I, want, is a simple switch to prevent the use of multiple pages view without my actively selecting it, including for documents authored by others and that I have never previously viewed.
Obviously, this should not affect what collaborators working on the same documents see, since that should be their preference. It's hard to remember now, but that I think is what older versions of Word did. It's actually hard to see why I would have a preference that varied from document to document.
Which is probably asking for the moon 🙂
Jay's add-in restores the functionality of older versions, where you could save the view and zoom with each Word file (templates as well as documents). Actually, the add-in does more than that: it also lets you save settings which not even older versions of Word let you do.
It is possible to have an AutoOpen macro adjust the view of each document that you open, but those changes will be seen only by you, and not by other users (unless they make use of the same macro commands of course).
Generally, as you say, running add-ins won't be uncomplicated in business environments.
You can send feedback to Microsoft, if you haven't already done so.
