{"id":6447,"date":"2022-12-16T11:23:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T18:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/editorium.com\/archive\/?p=6447"},"modified":"2023-04-07T11:36:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T17:36:16","slug":"getting-a-birds-eye-view-on-your-document","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/editorium.com\/archive\/getting-a-birds-eye-view-on-your-document\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting a Bird&#8217;s-Eye View on Your Document"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>By Jack Lyon, the Editorium<\/h3>\n<p>Back in the days of editing on paper, I would sometimes spread manuscript pages out on my desk to get a bird's-eye view of the text I was working on. This could be useful for several reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To see if long stretches of text needed to be broken down into subsections.<\/li>\n<li>To compare points made over <em>here<\/em> with other points made over <em>there.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>To see if the overall organization of a chapter made sense.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>On a computer screen, the default view is one page at a time, and most editors rarely deviate from that, even though it's possible (and sometimes useful) to do so. Here's how:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>On Microsoft Word's ribbon, click the <em>View<\/em> tab.<\/li>\n<li>Click the <em>Zoom<\/em> button.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/editorium.com\/sendy\/uploads\/1671049815.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"img\" \/><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Click the <em>Many pages<\/em> button and select <em>2 \u00d7 4 Pages,<\/em> which is the maximum Word allows when setting the number through the ribbon.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/editorium.com\/sendy\/uploads\/1671049628.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"img\" \/><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Click the <em>OK<\/em> button.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Your document's pages should now be displayed four across, and if it has more than eight pages, they will automatically be displayed in more rows than the two you specified.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/editorium.com\/sendy\/uploads\/1671049721.png?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"img\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It's a bird's-eye view! After looking around, you can place your cursor anywhere on one of the pages and then click <em>Zoom &gt; One page<\/em> to work on that page. Very convenient!<\/p>\n<p>If you want to display more than four pages across, you can do so with a macro. This one will give you ten pages across:<\/p>\n<pre><code>Sub BirdsEyeView()    \n    With ActiveWindow.ActivePane.View.Zoom\n        .PageColumns = 10\n        .PageRows = 2\n    End With\nEnd Sub<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>You can change the &quot;.PageColumns = &quot; number to anything you like, but 25 appears to be the maximum that Word will accommodate.<\/p>\n<p>To return to Word's default view of one page, click <em>Zoom &gt; One page.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here's how to use the BirdsEyeView macro and put in on Word's Quick Access Toolbar for easy use:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/editorium.com\/archive\/how-to-add-a-macro-to-word-and-its-qat-quick-access-toolbar\/\">https:\/\/editorium.com\/archive\/how-to-add-a-macro-to-word-and-its-qat-quick-access-toolbar\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How about you? Do you have better ways of getting a bird's-eye view of your work? If so, I'd love to hear from you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/editorium.com\/archive\/getting-a-birds-eye-view-on-your-document\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Getting a Bird&#8217;s-Eye View on Your Document\"><p>By Jack Lyon, the Editorium Back in the days of editing on paper, I would sometimes spread manuscript pages out on my desk to get a bird&#8217;s-eye view of the text I was working on. 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