[mso] Re: Get Office programs to stretch across a widescreen

  • From: "David Smart" <smartware@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:52:04 +1100

Excel has zoom, but it doesn't have "pages".  You'll get a full screen of 
cells, sized at whatever zoom you've specified.



Regards, Dave S

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Rosenthal" <rojo.editor@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 1:29 AM
Subject: [mso] Re: Get Office programs to stretch across a widescreen


> Do Excel and PowerPoint have similar settings? By the way, she agreed to 
> bring it back in.
>
> Joel
>
>
>>From: David Smart <smartware@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>>On my 1280x1024 screen, a "normal" view of one of my A4 documents needs to
>>be zoomed to 219% to get the ruler right across the screen.  In "print
>>layout" view, a full-width page zoom is 148%.
>>
>>100% in "normal" does indeed only take up the left-hand half of the 
>>screen.
>>100% in "print layout" view leaves a wide grey area each side of the page.
>>
>>Don't know what her resolution is, but it presumably isn't less than 1280
>>wide.
>>
>>If I switch to "web layout" view, a 100% zoom will fill the whole width, 
>>and
>>the ruler will run up to more than 30 cm.
>>
>>"Outline" view at 100% only uses the left side of the screen.
>>
>>"Reading" view doesn't present a zoom amount - just puts two pages onto 
>>the
>>screen.
>>
>>2003 does indeed have the "page width" zoom control.
>
>>
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