Get Outlook Not to Open in Reading Layout
I must admit, I love the Microsoft Outlook-Word 2003 combination - the only thing that has been really bugging me about it has been Outlook's insistence upon opening every single Word document attachment that comes along in Reading Layout. While I like Word 2003's Reading Layout, I get a fairly large number of table-style documents which do not render well in that view, so I'd much rather have Outlook just open Word documents in the usual Print Layout by default.
Problem was, I couldn't figure out how to get Outlook to do this! I searched through every Outlook program setting and option I could find - still no luck. Finally, after numerous Google searches, I discovered that the culprit was actually a setting in MS Word: in Word, under Tools > Options > General, you uncheck "Allow starting in Reading layout". Ahh... Blessed relief! Just thought I'd pass the tip along in case anyone else was experiencing the same frustration!
posted by Fr. Justin (Edward)
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22 Comments:
you'd be better off just using a unix-based os like OpenBSD, and utilising wordpress to do your web/blog creation. good cheer, thomasw.
I might indeed be better off using a Unix-based OS (Knoppix is my favourite so far), but I'm afraid I'm pretty addicted to Outlook. Gmail almost cured me of that, but there is still nothing free and open source (that I've found) that compares with Outlook's integrated task-management and calendering functions. Besides, if I totally switched to Linux, how would I play my Age of Empires and Sims 2?
And why would I use Wordpress when I have Blogger? Which I notice you also seem to be using... ;-)
(we all knew thomas was going to say that, didn't we:P)
Thanks, Ed. It worked! That problem of attachments always opening in reading layout was bothering me too. --Dad
I echo your sentiments exactly: "Ahh... Blessed relief!"- THANKS.
I love the internet! It worked! Thank you for posting this!
Great, thanks for finding this.
Word's options pages are so cluttered I find it hard to find exactly what setting is neeeded if it even exists.
I just started as an analyst for our county IT. This was a complaint from one of my customers. I too researched outlook and felt frustrated. I can't wait until Monday to try it. Thanks a lot
Hallelujah!
All i can say is thankyou thankyou thankyou.. This has been annoying me for ages.. So today I thought i would do a Google search and came up with your bit.. Hugs your a Gem.
I can't tell you how many times I've "googled" that problem! I can't believe how easy that fix was! Thanks so much!
Thank you, Edward, for solving this problem!!!
Thank you!! This has literally been bugging me for over a year.
You don't know how many lives you saved by keeping me from going berserk over this.
Thanks so much for posting this.
Looked high and low and you were there, to restore sanity to the frustrated.
Good luck with any mission work you are doing.
The happy gardener
thanks for posting this
my life is much easier now.
thanks for posting this, was of great help
Thanx for that, I'd been suffering too. Lead me on to find the Word 2007 ones.
The options for Office 2007 are as follows:
1) Click the round ‘Office’ button at the top left of the new ribbon interface, then click ‘Word Options’.
2) Now untick the option ‘Open e-mail attachments in Full Screen Reading view’.
3) Now click OK to close the options screen.
4) To test the settings worked, close Word 2K7 and open a .doc/x file from outlook.
Tada, no more Reading view.
Awesome, thank you.
Thanks this has annoyed me for years. Finally today I decided to change it and your info was the first thing to come up in the search.
Brilliant! Saved my sanity :)
Fr Justin, you have just saved me untold hours of fishing around in Outlook to fix this annoying problem! Thank you!
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