Hi Douglas, I know it's no consolation, but you are not alone in taking documents back to a 2003 system to edit - and that's with 20/20 vision, and 20 years or so of using various flavours of Word. I've not yet found a way to save documents in such a way that when re-opened, they will appear as they were when saved. However, you should be able to change that via the View ribbon, and if not, then you may have a local/Hal problem. George. -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Douglas Harrison Sent: 27 September 2008 13:34 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Word 2007 query I believe that there are some list members, other than myself, who are now working with Word 2007, and perhaps someone may be able to throw some light on the following. For some reason Word 2007 is saving documents in the Print layout rather than the Normal view. In the View tab of the ribbon it appears that Print layout (the first option) is selected and nothing I can do will change this. It could be a bug in the Microsoft code, but I doubt this. More likely the script which Hal 9.02 is using to handle the ribbon is misbehaving. I would be interested to know what happens with Jaws or Window-eyes. trying to edit a complex document in the Print layout is something of a nightmare! At present I have, in desperation, to take the file to a machine still running Word 2003, make the change in the View menu and save it again! Thanks in advance for any suggestions. . Douglas -- Douglas Harrison ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq