The View Menu in Microsoft Word ® including Web Layout, Document Map, and Markup

The View Menu in Microsoft Word has many useful commands, here we explain each of them.

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The View Menu in Microsoft Word

The View Menu is the third menu in our using Microsoft Word tutorial.

Normal: Selecting this will show your current document in a layout without the document margins.

Web Layout: The Web Layout view will show you how the current document will look on a web browser, a full-screen layout.

Print Layout: This view will show the document in a layout including all margins and page breaks.

Outline: The Outline view allows you to change the structure of your document, when selected it will open the Outline Toolbar. The Outline Toolbar allows you to, amongst other things, move headings up or down and/or change the heading types.

Task Pane: This command toggles (shows/hides) the Task Pane. The task pane is designed to give you quick access to frequently used commands, including Document Commands, The Office Clipboard, Basic Search, Style and Formatting and more.

Toolbars: When you hover your mouse pointer over Toolbars you will be presented with a submenu, this includes all of the different toolbars that are available. You can toggle (hide/show) the different toolbars by simply clicking on them within the submenu.

Ruler: Clicking on this will toggle (hide/show) the document ruler which appears across the top and down the side of the Microsoft Word document.

Document Map: The document map is a handy feature which allows you to navigate the current document, it will list the headings (heading 1, heading 2, etc) in the current document. To go directly to a certain paragraph heading, simply click on it in the left hand pane that opens.

Header and Footer: This allows you to edit the header and footer of the current document. We show you how to edit the header and footer in our letterhead tutorial

Footnotes: This command will show all footnotes and endnotes (you will be promoted for which) within the current document. Footnotes and Endnotes will be covered in a future Microsoft Word tutorial.

Markup: This will toggle (hide/show) any Markup (comments and tracked alterations/additions) in the current document.

Full Screen: This will show the current Microsoft Word document in full screen mode.

Zoom: This will open the zoom dialogue box, enabling you to change the percentage of zoom for the current view.

see also: File Menu - Edit menu - Insert menu - Format menu - Tools menu - Table menu