How do I center the page on the screen in Word?

[user@discussions.microsoft.com frustrated user]

The default view in the Print Layout has the page justified to the left. How
can I center it on my monitor so that it dosen't look so lopsided?

Microsoft Word 2007

[Graham Mayor]

Do you mean that the page area occupies the left side of the Word window? If
so increase the view zoom or reduce the size of the window until it moves to
the centre.

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[Rich007]

Under View > Zoom, click the button under "Many pages" and then click a
single page (the top left one) to give you a "1 x 1 pages".

Now if you zoom using the mouse wheel while holding Ctrl, it wont matter
what the zoom percentage is, your page will always be centred.

Unfortunately, it isn't sticky (in my Word 2003), so if you are using a wide
screen monitor, this comes back each time you start a new document. (Anyone
know a registry hack for this???)

You could put the following code in a macro and either call it from a button
on the toolbar, or add it to an autoexec macro in the normal template:

Sub ZomeOnePageWidth()
' Macro to force one page only across the screen width and zoom to 100%.
'
With ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Zoom
.PageColumns = 1
.Percentage = 100
End With
End Sub

Another way round this is to have a task pane showing and adjust its width
so there isn't room for two pages side by side at your preferred zoom setting.

Hope that helps.
Cheers
Rich

[Rob FERRIE]

Highlight the "100%" and change it to 101%... done!

>> On Monday, August 31, 2009 4:04 AM Graham Mayor wrote:

>> Do you mean that the page area occupies the left side of the Word window? If
>> so increase the view zoom or reduce the size of the window until it moves to
>> the centre.
>>
>> --
>> <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<>
>> Graham Mayor - Word MVP
>>
>> My web site www.gmayor.com
>> Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
>> <>>< ><<> ><<> <>>< ><<> <>>< <>><<>
>>
>>
>> frustrated user wrote:

>>> On Tuesday, September 01, 2009 12:07 PM Rich007 wrote:

>>> Under View > Zoom, click the button under "Many pages" and then click a
>>> single page (the top left one) to give you a "1 x 1 pages".
>>>
>>> Now if you zoom using the mouse wheel while holding Ctrl, it wont matter
>>> what the zoom percentage is, your page will always be centred.
>>>

>>> Unfortunately, it is not sticky (in my Word 2003), so if you are using a wide

>>> screen monitor, this comes back each time you start a new document. (Anyone
>>> know a registry hack for this???)
>>>
>>> You could put the following code in a macro and either call it from a button
>>> on the toolbar, or add it to an autoexec macro in the normal template:
>>>
>>> Sub ZomeOnePageWidth()
>>> ' Macro to force one page only across the screen width and zoom to 100%.
>>> '
>>> With ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Zoom
>>> .PageColumns = 1
>>> .Percentage = 100
>>> End With
>>> End Sub
>>>
>>> Another way round this is to have a task pane showing and adjust its width

>>> so there is not room for two pages side by side at your preferred zoom setting.

>>>
>>> Hope that helps.
>>> Cheers
>>> Rich
>>>
>>> "Graham Mayor" wrote:

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