Disable reading layout in MS Word
03 Mar 2006Arguably the bane of my existence (alongside JPEG logos and Home & Away DVD-cover design), Microsoft Word’s insistence on opening crap Outlook feeds it in reading-layout can in fact be disabled. There’s an Office Assistance article on how to do this.
I hate it because it effectively presumes no-one writes documents anymore. Undermining MS Office’s awesome collaboration features (I’m being serious), etc. Not that I ever write anything in MS Office myself, of course (except for proofing stuff other people send) — but still, it bugs me. Especially the way things wrap differently, copy differently, etc. Yuck.