How can I quickly access the Microsoft Word zoom setting on a Mac?

Question

I get a lot of Word documents to work on, and the first thing I always do is access the zoom setting (View-> Zoom) and change the zoom to "Page Width". There's no keyboard shortcut for the zoom settings, and I do it enough times that I'd like a quicker way. In Pages, there's a little pop-up that lets you choose the zoom you want.Is there a way to quickly change the zoom settings in Word? Thanks.

Answer 1

I also prefer to work in MS Word in the "Page Width" view. Although there is not a keyboard shortcut assigned to get to Page Width view quickly, you can add your own keyboard shortcut to MS Word for Page Width View. It's easy to create keyboard shortcut in Word for Mac.

In the Tools Menu - select 'Customize Keyboard...'

In the Categories list - select 'View'

In the Commands list - scroll to and select 'ViewZoomPageWidth'

in the 'Press new keyboard shortcut' area - type "Command+\"

Click the Assign button, then click the OK button to exit the dialog box

You now can simply use the keyboard shortcut 'command-\' (that's command key - plus the forward slash key) to immediately change to Page Width view.