Zoom & View Layout

Reduces or enlarges the screen display of Office. The current zoom factor is displayed as a percentage value on the Status bar.

To access this command...

Choose View - Zoom - Zoom.

Zoom also with (+) (-) (×) and (÷) on the number keypadZoom also with (+) (-) (×) and (÷) on the number keypad.

Click or right-click the field on the Status bar.

Zooming is handled differently on Unix, Linux and Windows platforms. A document saved with a 100% zoom factor in Windows is displayed at a larger zoom factor on Unix/Linux platforms. To change the zoom factor, double-click or right-click the percentage value on the Status bar, and select the zoom factor that you want.

Zoom factor

Set the zoom factor at which to display the current document and all documents of the same type that you open thereafter.

Optimal

Resizes the display to fit the width of the selected cell area at the moment the command is started.Resizes the display to fit the width of the text in the document at the moment the command is started.

Fit width and height

Resizes the display to fit the width and height of the selected cell area at the moment the command is started.Displays the entire page on your screen.

Fit width

Displays the complete width of the document page. The top and bottom edges of the page may not be visible.

100 %

Displays the document at its actual size.

Variable

Enter the zoom factor at which you want to display the document. Enter a percentage in the box.

View layout

For text documents, you can set the view layout. Reduce the zoom factor to see the effects of different view layout settings.

Automatic

The automatic view layout displays pages side by side, as many as the zoom factor allows.

Single page

The single page view layout displays pages beneath each other, but never side by side.

Columns

In columns view layout you see pages in a given number of columns side by side. Enter the number of columns.

Book mode

In book mode view layout you see two pages side by side as in an open book. The first page is a right page with an odd page number.