To insert a comment, highlight the text about which you want to comment, right-click on the highlighted text, and select “New Comment” from the popup menu. You can also use it to find text and Word objects, such as tables and images, and to navigate through your document using thumbnails of the pages.Ĭlose the “Navigation” pane by clicking the “X” in the upper-right corner of the pane.Įven though you can’t edit your document in “Read Mode”, you can add comments. The “Navigation” pane allows you to easily jump around your document by showing you an outline of your document using the headings, allowing you to click on any heading to jump to that section. You can also easily navigate through the document by clicking “VIEW” on the Reading toolbar and selecting “Navigation Pane” from the drop-down menu. Click “OK” to accept the change and close the dialog box. In the “Start up options” section, select the “Open email attachments and other uneditable files in reading view” check box so there is NO check mark in the box.

If not, click “General” in the list of items on the left. The “General” screen should display by default. On the “Info” backstage screen, click “Options” in the list of items on the left. If you don’t want this to be the default, click “File” in the upper-left corner of the Reading toolbar. To exit full-screen mode and return to resizable window, click the “Restore Down” button.īy default, uneditable documents, such as email attachments, open in “Read Mode”. The menus and filename are restored, but the window is left in full-screen mode. To show the menus and filename permanently again, click the “Always Show Reading Toolbar” button. To access the menus on the Reading toolbar, click the “…” button. The window is automatically set to full screen and the toolbar hides, leaving you a few controls in the upper-right corner of the window. If you want even more distraction-free goodness, you can automatically hide the toolbar at the top of the window. To zoom in on a particular object, such as an image, double-click on the object. The currently selected percentage displays to the right of the slider.

You can zoom in and out of your document using the slider on the right side of the status bar. You can use the arrows on the left and right side of the screen or you can click the right and left arrow keys on the keyboard. There are a couple of ways to browse through the pages of your document. The document is displayed in a distraction-free window with a Reading toolbar at the top of the window. NOTE: You can also activate “Read Mode” by clicking the book icon on the right side of the status bar at the bottom of the Word window.

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