How to make the "Full Screen Reading" layout the default view in Microsoft Word 2007 and 2010?

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This guide describes how to set the Full Screen Reading layout as the default view in Microsoft Word 2007 and Microsoft Word 2010. Since Word doesn't have any options to achieve this, we have to go for an Auto Macro. The Auto Macros supported by Office Word 2007 and 2010 are:

Auto Macros can be stored in individual documents or the Normal template (for running in all the documents). In this particular case we need to add an AutoOpen Auto Macro to the Normal.dot template.

1. Open MS Office Word 2007 or 2010 from the Start Menu.
2. Press the key combination Alt+ F11 to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications editor.
   
   
   
   
3. From the left hand pane, right click on the first entry, Normal and choose Insert > Module
   
   
   
   
   
   This will create an entry Module1 (if you don't have any other modules) and opens the code editor in the right hand side:
   
   
   
   
4. Copy paste the following code in the code editor:
   
   
   Code:

   Sub AutoOpen()
   ActiveWindow.View.Type = 7  'Full Screen Reading layout
   ActiveWindow.View.Zoom.Percentage = 100  'or your preference
   End Sub

   
   
5. Now just close all the Office Word Windows we opened.
   
6. Try opening any word document and they should load in Fullscreen Reading Layout now.
   
   
   
   

Note:- To enable the Fullscreen Reading Layout view for a single document, add the new Module to the Project (Document name) in step 3. The file needs to be saved as a Word Macro-Enabled Document format (.docm extension )

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