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Word 2019 Homepage Orientation
OvevsI am unfamiliar with the term Homescreen as applied to Word. I suspect you mean the start screen. Any chance you can supply a screenshot.
Just guessing here. You may want to OPEN your normal template for ediiting and make sure it is in the portrait orientation. How to Open the Normal Template in Any Desktop Version of Word (except Mac 2008)
Thanks for responding. I just now did all that. Found the vba editor, put application.NormalTemplate.OpenAsDocument into the Immediate window, opened, adjusted, and saved the normal doc. The new normal doc is in AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates.
Didn't work. Rebooting still causes Word to open its homepage in landscape mode.
ovevs
So tell us more, or show us, what you mean by homepage. As I said, I am not familiar with that term. I have been using Word for more than 30 years and have heard the term applied to browsers and websites, but not Word.
- I think I described it pretty well a few posts above. It's the page you get when you open word from its icon (not by clicking on a doc's icon). On the left, there's a wide vertical bar with Home (below a house graphic), New (below a folder), and Open (below an open folder graphic). On the right is your list of recently opened docs.
But never mind! I just opened Word to look at that and for the first time in many days it opened in portrait. I guess the vba bit for some reason took two reboots to stick.
Thanks.
Ovevs- Glad you got it straightened out. For future reference, what you describe is called the "Start Page" in Microsoft jargon. I should have guessed.