- [Instructor] I'm looking at a document here,
but everything is so small it's hard to even read anything,
so let's look at some ways to change your view
so it's easier to work in Word.
Your view controls are in the bottom-right corner
of the window and the main thing is this zoom slider.
You can drag that left and right to zoom in
or out on the document.
Now, I'm not making any changes to the document here.
It's not changing the size of my text at all.
It's more like you're just moving closer
or farther away from the document.
So you could see the whole thing at a glance
or you could zoom in closer to see detail
or you could click the plus or minus buttons on the left
or right to move in and out with a little bit more control
or you could click where this percentage is
and you could set your own percentage.
You could type in a specific value here
or sometimes I just like to scale it straight to 100%,
but often, I like to use the page width options.
So I'll select that, then I'll click okay.
So now, the width of the document just fills
the window that I'm working in.
As we go through this course, you may see
that I have different zoom percentages set
at different times just because it will make it easier
to see the document with the feature that we're learning.
Now, to the left of the zoom slider,
we have different view options, and I recommend you stick
with the print layout option most of the time.
This shows your document as it will look when you print it
and it's kind of the default view for editing a document,
but you could try the other views and these options
are actually different between Mac and Windows.
On Windows, we have this reading mode,
and if you just need to read a document
with limited distractions, this can be useful.
You could also switch over to the focus mode,
which can be another way to read a document more easily.
To get out of this, you can move your mouse cursor
to the top of the screen so that your controls appear
and then you can get back to the other views here
or you can just hit the escape key on your keyboard
to leave the focus mode, and let me switch back
to the print view.
So of course, the print layout will be there
for both Mac and Windows and it's the view
that we'll use most of the time in this course.
So, if something looks drastically different for you
on your screen, I suggest you check
and make sure you're in that mode.