Re: New to Word 2004 - how to zoom document?

I don't think anyone else has this zoom problem, so no one has a fix for
it...is the View | Zoom option also grayed out? Does this happen in all
documents or just those emailed to you? Have you run Help | Check for
Updates on your new installation of Office 2004?

But since you are talking about emailed documents--you can set your own
default to be 125%, but it won't affect documents emailed to you. I use two
macros in a global template to force all documents to show at 125% Normal
View. See below for details. By the way, I don't think Win/Mac has a
75%/125% inherent difference in the display--I'm guessing the monitors you
are accustomed to also have different resolutions to get that wide a spread.
100% might be comfortable on a 1024x768 resolution screen but painful on a
1280x854, for example.

Re documents as Read-Only--what email program are you using? I don't think
this is a Word issue, really. As far as I know, you *can't* just leave the
attachment "on the email". Attachments need to be saved to your local hard
drive for you to edit and use them. In Windows Outlook, for instance, many
people run into problems because they open an attachment, make changes, and
save it without realizing that those changes were just being made in a
temporary file and they vanished when the doc was closed. I suspect the
Read-Only setting is your email program protecting you from accidentally
doing this, by forcing you to save the doc locally.

Entourage gets around this problem by automatically putting attachments you
open in a Saved Attachments folder and saving them there, so that you don't
have to consciously re-save the docs, but even then, if you re-open the
attachment from the email, you get the original, not your version with
changes.

**Forcing View Settings

Here are my macros as a model. Experiment with recording your preferred
settings so that you can get the right wording for whatever you want, or
tell us what you want and ask for the wording if you get hopelessly
confused.

AutoNew runs on all new documents (those you create), AutoOpen runs on all
opened documents (those emailed to you). You need both. You can't change the
name, but you can set the specs (the things after the equals sign ) to
whatever you want and choose to specify other things as well.

See here for how to install them:
http://word.mvps.org/MacWordNew/InstallMacroMac.htm
(hit refresh a few times in Safari, or use a different browser)

Sub AutoNew()
With ActiveWindow.View
.Type = wdNormalView
.Zoom.Percentage = 125
.TableGridlines = True
End With
End Sub

Sub AutoOpen()
With ActiveWindow.View
.Type = wdNormalView
.Zoom.Percentage = 125
.TableGridlines = True
End With
End Sub

Hope that helps,

On 9/5/05 10:40 AM, "KittyP" wrote:

> I installed Word 2004 a couple of days ago, and am unable to work on
> most of my documents. I receive a lot of files created on Windows
> machines, which of course display much smaller on my Mac (75% of
> original size is a comfortable scale on XP, but you couldn't read the
> same document at less than 125% on a Mac).Trouble is, the zoom on Word
> 2004 doesn't work - the option on the toolbar is dimmed - so basically,
> I'm unable to read anything without changing the typeface to about
> 18pt. The is fine on text, but it's hopeless on anything formatted. Has
> anyone found a fiix for it yet??
>
> I also find that everything emailed to me is interpreted by Word 2004
> as being Read-Only. It's easy enough to change to Read/Write, but it's
> very tedious (you have to detach the attachment from the email first,
> when actually, you just want to leave it there).
>
> Any advice gratefully received on either problem...
>
> Cheers!
>
> Kitty.
>

--
Daiya Mitchell, MVP Mac/Word
Word FAQ: http://www.word.mvps.org/
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