{"id":1975,"date":"2022-08-07T09:46:42","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T06:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.addictivetips.com\/?p=189783https:\/\/www.addictivetips.com\/microsoft-office\/open-an-ms-word-document-in-outline-view-by-default\/"},"modified":"2022-08-07T09:46:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T06:46:42","slug":"how-to-open-an-ms-word-document-in-outline-view-by-default","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/1975-how-to-open-an-ms-word-document-in-outline-view-by-default\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Open An MS Word Document In Outline View By Default"},"content":{"rendered":"

MS Word has three different display modes; Reading Mode, Print Layout, and Web Layout.\u00a0When you exit an MS Word file and open it again, it remembers the mode\u00a0you were using when you closed it. This only applies to saved documents. You can\u2019t use this same setting for a new MS Word document. A new MS Word document will always open in the Print Layout. MS Word also has another, lesser known, mode called Outline View. Outline View shows all headings in the document as a list. It\u2019s a great way to move one section to another. If you want to open an MS Word document in Outline view by default, you\u2019re going to need a little Macro for it.<\/p>\n

Enable The Developer Tab<\/h3>\n

Macros are recorded from the Developer Tab. By default, this tab is not enabled in MS Word. To enable it, open MS Word and go to File>Options.<\/p>\n

In the Options window, select the \u2018Customize Ribbon\u2019\u00a0tab. This tab is split into two column. In the column on the right, select \u2018Developer\u2019 and click Ok. The Developer Tab will be added to the ribbon in MS Word.<\/p>\n

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Record The Outline View Macro<\/h3>\n

Open MS Word and go to the Developer tab on the ribbon. Click \u2018Macro\u2019 to record a new macro. Name it \u2018AutoOpen\u2019 and \u00a0click \u2018Create\u2019 in the new macro window.<\/p>\n

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The macro editor will open. Paste the following in the macro and save it.<\/p>\n

Sub AutoOpen() ' ' AutoOpen Macro ' '\nActiveWindow.View.Type = wdOutlineView\nActiveWindow.View.ShowHeading 1\nEnd Sub<\/pre>\n
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That\u2019s all you need to do.<\/p>\n
Limitation<\/h3>\n
This works only for a document that you\u2019ve saved. When you open a new blank MS Word document, it will still open in the Print layout mode. The limitations that apply to the default modes in MS Word apply to this macro as well.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019ve ever used Outline View in MS Word, you know that it can expand a level one heading to reveal its sub-headings. This macro will not do that. Whenever you open an MS Word document in Outline view that has multi-level headings, it will only list level one headings. You can of course expand the level one headings by clicking on them.<\/p>\n
Microsoft doesn\u2019t let a user choose which mode MS Word opens in by default. The print view is possibly the most popular layout for a new document so the decision to omit the option makes some sense. It\u2019s pointless to open a new document in reading mode so that really only leaves the HTML view. It\u2019s likely very few users need to open Word in the HTML \u00a0view by default which is why, if you have a special need, you have to use macros.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MS Word has three different display modes; Reading Mode, Print Layout, and Web Layout.\u00a0When you exit an MS Word file and open it again, it remembers the mode\u00a0you were using when you closed it. This only applies to saved documents. You can\u2019t use this same setting for a new MS Word document. A new MS …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}