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Frederick van Amstel — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:46:00 GMT

Maybe you can fullfil the need of presets by changing the percentage indicator into a dropdown with some presets and common percentages.

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splintor — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 13:10:28 GMT

After reading this, I noticed that Office Picture Manager already uses the status bar area for a zoom slider. Very cool.

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Kurt Thomas — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 12:44:03 GMT

What, a slider for zoom? Goodness.... at long last! So where Acrobat and even PageMaker had a Magnifying Lens ten years ago, it took Word until now to come up with a better way for controlling zoom.... And didn't "About Face 2.0" mention this, too?

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Michael Martine — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 06:30:02 GMT

Please make the zoom slider BIGGER. Presets or "stops" along the slider for standard zoom levels get my vote, too. But if that slider were any smaller we wouldn't hardly be able to click on it.

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Kawigi — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 21:45:59 GMT

Centaur: View switching probably isn't that important in Word (or Excel), but it seems a little more important in Power Point and it's central to Access. I suppose each app will get different mileage (/levels of confusion) from having these controls on the status bar.

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Centaur — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:22:54 GMT

For me, there are two levels of zoom. 100% and Page Width. I never understood the need for everything else.

Also, I do not think view switching is such an always-needed task. If I work on a document, I don’t care if it’s Normal or Print Layout, any more than I care of browser width while working on a Web page — it must look good with any, and there are easy guidelines for achieving that.

One thing that absolutely requires Print Layout is pictures. I have always been frustrated with how Word handles pictures, allowing to drag and drop them everywhere. That’s just not right. A picture wants to be either inline with the text, or floating left or right with text flowing around it. All other positioning I consider unnecessary and harmful.