Corey Roth [MVP]

Fabulous. Thank you! Soooo much better.

Hi,

this choice from MS has sides effects on office automation, with errors like : "The __________ method or property is not available because this command is not available for reading."

For developpers this means disable read mode as document opening, with (VB : ) .ActiveWindow.View.ReadingLayout = Not .ActiveWindow.View.ReadingLayout

Another way is to use your tips, or do the same thing with registry (not found the key right now).

Your post give me the soluce, thanks !

Thanks for that, didn't work for me either, hate the facing page format.

Hi Guys,

Do you know what registry must be amended for that change?

Cheers,

Dimitar

@Dmitar afraid not.  I haven't looked for it.

thx

Many thanks, was driving me nuts.

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!  I hate that bloody view.  Danged inconvenient!

Typical - search all the advanced options but didn't see it staring me in the face on the general tab!

Thanks for the tip...

Thanks!

Worked just fine for me.

Awesome, you are wonderful. For all that I dislike in every new Office version, this was at the top of the list

Thanks! Reading View SUCKS on a Desktop PC!

thank you best solution

youre and expert

GPO Registry Key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\office\15.0\word\Options

AllowAutoReadingMode=0

thank you soooo much...never would have thought to uncheck that to get rid of the ridiculous read mode...you have made me very happy!

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Several searches later, your post answered my question - thank you!!!!

Was pulling my hair out trying to fix this after going from XP Word 2007 to Win8.1 Word 2013. What a pain in the butt. Many thanks for the simple solution.

You, sir.. need a medal...

Tried this, but did not work. Using Outlook/Word 2013. Any ideas what would cause the above suggested solution NOT to work.

Useful.

This helped me to fix the issue occurring in word document generation from a ready-made application for which I did not have source to get into the debugging.

Simple setting, but great impact.

Thanks a lot.

Thanks, this information is greatly appreciated.

This works too:

doc.ActiveWindow.View.ReadingLayout = False

Many thanks!

Thanks for the tip, my MSW settings automatically had this read mode on. I had to change to edit mode every time I opened certain documents.

Thank you Thank you Thank you!!!

I've been trying for weeks to fix this! Thank you!

Thank you!!!

thanks - worked

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Thanks!

Very helpful!  Thank you.

Thank you so much!  I looked all over "Options" and didn't see it even though it was waving a flag at me.

I have the box unchecked.  I set the registry.  Word still opens email attachments in reading pane view.  I'd like to stab the person who ever thought this was a better way to view things by default.

Go to VIEW (top of the screen). A drop down list appears. Then choose EDIT. DONE !

Heleluh!!!! hate that stupid reading mode!

if u have word 2016 you get out by clicking view and then it will show a bunch of different choices, but click edit and you will get out of reading mode.

THANK YOU!  

Four years later ... THANKS!

Thanks a lot!!!

I can't believe I waited this long to decide to change it.  Thank you so much!  D

Thank you very very much,

Finally I got rid of reading view:)

Thanks Corey, saved me some time. If only there was a way to stop Microsoft from being 'helpful' ;-)

Thanks soooooo much for this. I did look for this in the options, and even though it was right there I did not notice it. After reading this post I could not believe I had missed it before. Again, Thanks!!

Excellent, thanks!

Thanks!

Such a small post but so useful.

Thank you for the post

You're a life altering genius!

Thank you very much!  The extra clicks every time I opened an attachment were really driving me crazy.

Thank you!

thanks for the awesome tip!

Works great under Word 2016!

very good

thank you.

:)

Thank you. Useful advice even today.

I originally got 'Protected Mode' and 'Reading Mode' confused.

Thank you so much!!!

I came, saw and conquered the word-view-problem!!!! (Because of you. Thanks a lot man.)