Re: Fit Word 2004 window to page & contents?

From: Tony (nospam_at_nospam.com)
Date: 08/17/04 

Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:01:02 +0200

Hi,

Updates:

1. I always work as "View/Page Layout". That is WYSIWYG (ie., Mac like)

2. I have been testing and the following current (Mac OS X-native) word
processors do this fit contents exactly to window exactly as it should
be even if you change the zoom ratio (just clicking the green top left
magnification button does the trick neatly):

-- Mariner Write 3.6 <http://www.marinersoft.com>.
-- Nisus Writer Express 1.1a <http://www.nisus.com>

The latter (Nisus) does it the best.

Regards, 

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On 2004-08-17 09:36:28 +0200, Tony <nospam@nospam.com> said:
> Dayo,
> 
> Many thanks for the feedback.
> 
> The problem here is that the percentage of zoom that I use is not 
> always the same. It is not always 200%, but depends on the actual file 
> and also on what I am doing with it. It could be lower or higher than 
> 100% and variable for each file.
> 
> Just clicking once on the maximize button (green on top left) should do 
> the trick, yet, as said, it works fine vertically (fits OK) but 
> truncates contents (at 200% zoom or similar) on the right side on large 
> 30-inch TFT displays. At lower zoom rations than 100%, it leaves too 
> much "blue" frame area on left and right sides between the actual page 
> and the window borders. It only works fine when magnification is 
> exactly 100% (not more, and not less).
> 
> Thus, in other words, what I am looking for is that the maximize button 
> (green on top left) should work the same at 100% zoom as at any other 
> lower or higher zoom rations.
> 
> And, as said, the good old Apple-Claris MacWrite Pro 1.5 did that years ago.
> 
> Thanks again.
> 
> ---
> On 2004-08-17 00:11:12 +0200, Dayo Mitchell 
> <dayomitchell_1997@NOhotmailSPAM.com.invalid> said:
> 
>> Hi Tony,
>> 
>> I'm not sure how this would affect the window size, but it sounds like you
>> might want to find your perfect zoom, then record a macro of yourself
>> setting it and put that on a toolbar. It should look something like this:
>> 
>> Sub ZoomDesiredPercent
>> ActiveWindow.View.Zoom.Percentage = 105 (or your desired percentage)
>> End Sub
>> 
>> You *could* force Word to always have the same size doc window, or write a
>> macro to flip the window to a certain size, but it doesn't quite sound like
>> that is what you're after, although possibly a macro that sets the zoom and
>> the size would work.
>> 
>> The best way to ensure your feature request gets logged and considered is to
>> use the Send Feedback under Help, by the way.  It would be nice to have a
>> feature that sized the window to the text, I do that manually a lot.
>> Actually, I should make myself a window size macro, because I do mostly want
>> it the same size.  Thanks for the idea!  (Not that I know how to write that
>> macro, will have to figure it out later...)
>> 
>> Dayo
>> 
>> On 8/16/04 4:41 PM, "Tony" wrote:
>> 
>>> Dayo,
>>> 
>>> Thanks.
>>> 
>>> I have done it. Yet, when I click such "Zoom Page Width" icon on the
>>> toolbar Word 2004 does right what showing all contents horizontally,
>>> yet shrinks the document from 200% to 105% and I do not want it. I am
>>> using a large 30-inch TFT Apple Cinema Display and I want to see large
>>> fonts to read better.
>>> 
>>> I then I choose "200%" on the other Zoom icon tool, the document looks
>>> fine vertically, but is truncated on the right side.
>>> 
>>> I must drag manually --and that is what I do not want to do-- the
>>> bottom left corner of the window to expand the view to the right. As
>>> said, the TFT is a large widescreen, so there is enough area.
>>> 
>>> Note that I do not want to stretch the document to take the full screen
>>> horizontally, but only what is required to see all its contents
>>> horizontally.
>>> 
>>> This should be possible for Microsoft programmers only if they wish.
>>> This feature was available many years ago in MacWrite Pro 1.5 for Mac:
>>> clicking on the expand icon of the window always expanded the document
>>> to show all contents and only just to show hem (no more).
>>> 
>>> Thanks again.
>>> 
>>> ---
>>> On 2004-08-16 20:35:34 +0200, Dayo Mitchell
>>> <dayomitchell_1997@NOhotmailSPAM.com.invalid> said:
>>> 
>>>> Hi Tony,
>>>> 
>>>> All the zoom commands are listed as ViewZoom[whatever]...so look in the
>>>> Vs...
>>>> 
>>>> The dialog's a nightmare to use, but the results are usually worth it.  Send
>>>> complaints straight to the developers via the Send Feedback menu under Help,
>>>> if you want to...
>>>> 
>>>> DM
>>>> 
>>>> On 8/16/04 11:46 AM, "Tony" wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Jim,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Selecting on the left "All commands" I cannot see any "Zoom" or
>>>>> "ZoomPageWidth". The last command is "WW7_ToolsOptions".
>>>>> 
>>>>> ---
>>>>>> PageWidth commandOn 2004-08-15 20:09:51 +0200, Jim Gordon MVP
>>>>>> <goldkey74@WarmerThanWarmMail.com> said:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi Tony,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I use the "Zoom Page Width" button.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> To make this button available use Tools>Customize>Menus and Toolbars.
>>>>>> Click the Commands tab.
>>>>>> Locate the ZoomPageWidth command in the right side of the dialog box
>>>>>> and drag the command to any toolbar. Close the dialog box and you're
>>>>>> done.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -Jim