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May 20, 2011 1:08 AM Subscribe
Help me find my Word 2003 tweak!
We use MS Word 2003 in the office. I have a particular annoyance that I once found a fix for and foolishly forgot to bookmark it. Now I’d like it back.
Here’s the issue: we work in templates on our case-handling system. I fill in the template with the text I want, and then one of our admin staff will finalise the document and print it out. When the document is finalised, it becomes read-only.
I always have my default zoom as 100% but a couple of the admins change this to 150% when they’re working on the document, so when they finalise it, the document is saved at 150%, the next time someone wants to refer back to that document and it’s opened (as read-only), the words are HUGE.
I know I can CTRL + scroll on the mouse to reduce it, but a while back I found a fix for this which was a button I added to the toolbar, a single click and the document reverted to a 100% zoom (or whatever percentage the user had selected as their preference). When my computer was rebuilt by IT last week, I lost this tweak because the rebuild removed all user customisations, so I have to find this to add it back. Googling has not helped.
Note, this is NOT the Zoom button on the standard toolbar. It was something I had to add, a single button from another of the myriad Word toolbars, so that when the document was opened as read-only at 150%, with a single click I could get it to a 100% view. This button did not change the read-only document, it just made it easier to read at a zoom size to suit my preferences on my PC. If someone else opened it, or the next time I opened it, it would still be at the zoom size saved by the admin.
Please also note : this is not some extra bit of software that I downloaded, nor was it a change to a registry setting, because we can't do either of those things on our system. It was some tweak within Word 2003 itself.
We use MS Word 2003 in the office. I have a particular annoyance that I once found a fix for and foolishly forgot to bookmark it. Now I’d like it back.
Here’s the issue: we work in templates on our case-handling system. I fill in the template with the text I want, and then one of our admin staff will finalise the document and print it out. When the document is finalised, it becomes read-only.
I always have my default zoom as 100% but a couple of the admins change this to 150% when they’re working on the document, so when they finalise it, the document is saved at 150%, the next time someone wants to refer back to that document and it’s opened (as read-only), the words are HUGE.
I know I can CTRL + scroll on the mouse to reduce it, but a while back I found a fix for this which was a button I added to the toolbar, a single click and the document reverted to a 100% zoom (or whatever percentage the user had selected as their preference). When my computer was rebuilt by IT last week, I lost this tweak because the rebuild removed all user customisations, so I have to find this to add it back. Googling has not helped.
Note, this is NOT the Zoom button on the standard toolbar. It was something I had to add, a single button from another of the myriad Word toolbars, so that when the document was opened as read-only at 150%, with a single click I could get it to a 100% view. This button did not change the read-only document, it just made it easier to read at a zoom size to suit my preferences on my PC. If someone else opened it, or the next time I opened it, it would still be at the zoom size saved by the admin.
Please also note : this is not some extra bit of software that I downloaded, nor was it a change to a registry setting, because we can't do either of those things on our system. It was some tweak within Word 2003 itself.
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posted by prenominal at 1:31 AM on May 20, 2011