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Step 1 - Several Different Views

Step 2 - Changing the View

Step 3 - Normal View

You do not see drawings, headers and footers, footnotes and endnotes

Displays a single page with simple text formatting

No drawings, comments or columns

Useful for entering text quickly and performing simple editing.

click the button to the left of the horizontal scroll bar

Step 4 - Web Layout View

Displays the page width, text position and format as the document would appear in a browser.

Drawings, graphics and columns will appear.

Useful to display a page which you will display on a website.

Step 5 - Print Layout View

This shows you how the document will look when it is printed.

The only view that displays everything.

Displays the document as it will appear in print, with text formatting, graphics, headers and footers, columns and all special elements.

Useful when you are proof reading a document and checking the design layout and text formatting before printing.

Step 6 - Outline View

Displays just the headings and subheadings in a document, providing organisation structure.

Useful when you are reorganising the content or moving sections etc.

Step 7 - Reading Layout View

This was added in Word 2003.

You can make this the default view by selecting (Tools > Options)(General tab, "Allow starting in Reading Layout").

Shows the document in full-page view enabling you to navigate through the document by clicking on the thumbnail images displayed on the left.

You can display multiple pages at the same time.

Document Map

Displays the document in two frames.

The left frame contains the headings you can use to navigate

The right frame contains the actual text

Useful when you want to move through a document quickly, checking headings and the correspnding sections.

Full Screen ?

Displays the editing window of your document in full screen view

without any toolbars, rulers

Useful for viewing th maximum workspace available on the screen.

Things to Remember