If something has kept us totally faithful to Microsoft Word, before choosing any other program to create and edit texts; it’s the number of opportunities you put on the table. The foregoing empowers each user to choose what benefits him most according to the purpose he pursues.
There are precisely so many alternatives that sometimes we can get lost within the range of Word tools, without understanding their functions. While the “Start” fulfills almost all the basic needs when making documents, you may end up finding the solution to your doubts with the presentation modes . Let’s get to it!
Index( )
- How to preview a Word document?
- What are the types of views or presentation modes of Word?
- 1- Printing design
- 2- Web Design
- 3- Reading mode
- 4- Draft
- 5- Scheme
How to preview a Word document?
This is one of the options branches contained in the upper part of the main page, which when clicked breaks down a number of ways to view the document. They are, then, the ways in which the file containing the text can be viewed; generating variants to organize the text according to how it will be printed, or will be its final appearance.
They are located in the left corner of the section , enclosed in a box called “Views”; however, the other options, although they are not presentation modes themselves, complement the first ones. They allow increases (the possibility of Zooming to read better), divisions of sheets or windows, among others.
The views do not change the text, but they do change the way it is read depending on the presentation mode you have chosen. This will also be important to write it from scratch just as you need it , without having to make drastic changes later: You will minimize the time you invest in what is just and necessary. Also, being able to see if you can make an impression correctly.
Even if you have initially gone to the basic Word sheet, you will be able to identify the important adjustments that the work needs according to the visualization format; so that they enable a reading according to their ultimate goal. What would end up improving the results, saving trouble, and maintaining the practicality of the case without having to resort to external applications.
What are the types of views or presentation modes of Word?
Each one adapts to a different way of representing the content, allowing the text to be edited or turning out to be a read-only mode, depending on the objective. In this way, it is its characteristics and organizational nature that explain how and when to use it, proposing the “Medium-Result” formula.
1- Printing design
The also known as “Page Layout” is the Word sheet that we see by default when we only open the document. It shows the basic, most common format that is compatible with vertical text printing; reflecting all the elements you add regardless of whether they are headers, page borders, margins, footers and others: Shows the text as it will finally be printed.
2- Web Design
This variant consists of maintaining the structure of the text according to how it is going to be published on a Web page; so you will be able to see the design with this typical HTML aspect of the web, and without looking like a regular Word sheet. It will give you the opportunity to measure the actual extension of the lines , but it will suppress watermarks, footers and margins; understanding that these are not elements of a Web.
3- Reading mode
It is not a mode that supports editing: It is created so that you can read the document without pressing any keys or altering the layout in any way. It offers a preview that allows you to see the harmony of the document in its composition, not only reading the text, but verifying structure, designs, fonts, searching for specific words , among others.
4- Draft
In this variant, formalities are not taken into account, but you will be able to access your information to cross out, highlight, and make quick and easy edits. It is very useful in the case of creative texts where the aim is to order the ideas, without laying out a number of words.
5- Scheme
As its name indicates, this visualization outlines all the text , ordering the paragraphs at different points. It even requires other techniques related to being able to structure it according to the nature of the document: It proposes levels and their configurations.
