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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/).
"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)."
Sorry, but that's not how it's working, which is exactly the problem. I never use two page view, NEVER. And yet Word randomly opens a document that way.
It should not take an add-in to correct this. It should not be doing it in the first place.
I'm on Office 365 home edition, constantly updated.
Word may decide to change to multi page view when you change the zoom or when you open your document on a computer with a larger screen than the one you normally use. This was actually an even bigger problem in older versions of Word, but it hasn't been completely fixed; that is correct.
Stefan_Blom Not to belabor the conversation but simply to provide information in case this thread is reviewed by support--I rarely zoom in Word, and I'm usually working on the same computer, so I don't think that's what's causing the problem for me. It seems random, so I think it's simply the uncorrected bug you acknowledge.
No need to reply unless there's something to add.The only way to bring this to the attention of the Microsoft developers is to send feedback from within Word. Help > Feedback works in recent versions of Word for Windows.