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How do I Stop Word Switching to Multiple Pages View
Sorry mate, 3 years later, but its down to your zoom, in error you may be hitting the zoom at the bottom of the document, which if its reduced under 100%, will automatically throw up 2 pages to one page. I figured it out looking for an answer to the same problem. Thanks!!
You will get more control of the view and zoom (and other settings as well) if you make use of Jay Freedman's add-in, which I believe has been mentioned previously in this thread. Look for SaveViewLocMulti.zip on his downloads page at https://jay-freedman.info/.
Note that the add-in will only work on your machine, or if you send the document to someone else who is also running the add-in of course.
Again, that's only valid for a single document. As in my last post, I, and I believe most other contributors here, are looking for a single setting to stop any document opening in multi-page view, ever, at least without our permission.
Using the add-in, you can restore the behavior of older versions of Word, which means that you can save the view and zoom with a template. The chosen settings will then apply to new documents created from that template. It won't be perfect, but it will be as good as older versions of Word ever was.
The alternative, which I believe I also mentioned earlier, is to have an auto macro run each time you open a document and set the view options you prefer.
Don't forget to send feedback to Microsoft developers; they are the ones who can change the product in the future.
P.S. My previous message was primarily for AssureComply, who hasn't participated in the thread until now, as far as I can tell.
Stefan_Blom Thanks. There are suggestions here for Word options to disable or control the feature for all documents (so anyone else here please vote for at least one!)
https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/ecee52da-f0dc-ef11-95f5-6045bdb154fd
https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/a5565ebb-c752-f011-95f2-7c1e52a55eeb
There are other suggestions that amount to extending multi-page view, so clearly some people like it. What we would call in the UK a "Marmite" feature, that being a (food) product that people reputedly either love or hate, but are never indifferent about 😀
