Zooming the View In and Out

Working with the Zoom tools gives you one more way to control exactly what you see in a Word document. The Zoom tools are located in the bottom-right corner of the window. Large documents are difficult to work with and difficult to view. Many documents, when viewed at 100%, are larger than the maximized size of the window. When this happens, viewing the entire document requires reducing the zoom.

Change the View

Image Use any of the following zoom options available on the Status bar:

Zoom Out. Click to zoom out (percentage gets smaller).

Zoom In. Click to zoom in (percentage gets larger).

Slider. Drag to zoom out or ...

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