Word 97

[RonB]

Make Normal View default view when opening documents. Whenever I open a new document in Word 97, the doc always opens in Page Layout view. How can I make Word open docs in Normal view?

 

[bigpapa]

It is my understanding that documents open in the view they were saved in - the view is saved with the doc. I may be wrong, since I've been using Word 2000 for a while now, but I believe 97 worked that way as well.

 

[Dreamboat]

Open up the visual basic editor (Alt-F11) on a blank document. On the left-hand side, double-click normal.dot and then double-click This document under normal.dot.

Paste this code into the code window. If you can't see the code window, hit View-Code.

Private Sub Document_Open()
ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdNormalView
End Sub

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[RonB]

Well, I solved the problem by re-installing Word. I did this before I read any of the above solutions. But I like Dreamboat's solution, and I will use it so that the problem doesn't reoccur. Thanks all.

 

[RonB]

Dreamboat, I tried to follow your instructions but they are incomplete. 1. I don't see on the left side of the code window any reference to Normal.dot. How do I click on Normal.dot when it is not present? 2. When I exit Word it prompts me for a name to save Document1 under. If I save the code under whatever name I give Document1, how will this affect all other documents I wish to open in Normal View? Something is missing here. Please explain how saving the code under a specific document will affect all other documents? Thanks

 

[Dreamboat]

Ron-I sent you an email. Forgot to say...before you exit the Visual basic editor, hit File-save, which will save the normal.dot file. Otherwise, if you are asked to save normal.dot, say yes!
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[RonB]

OK, Dreamboat did as you said but I get this error message everytime Word opens:
"Run time error 91.
Object variable or With block variable not set"
What is wrong with your code statement that causes this error? I've done a lot of VBA coding but only in Access and I am not familar with VBA code in Word.