Window size on opening Word on Mac

Hi Jac,

Try this...

1. Close all open Word documents and then quit Word and Outlook completely.
2. Open the Activity Monitor.app program, which is located in Applications/Utilities
3. Type "Microsoft" into the search box and verify that there aren't any running copies of Microsoft Word or Microsoft Outlook open. If there are, select the application so that it highlights and then use the X button to Force it to Quit.
4. Quit the Activity Monitor application and open Microsoft Word. A new blank document should be displayed.
5. Adjust the window of the new blank document to the size you want.
6. Save this blank document. It will probably have the name of Document1 and that is fine, you can delete it later.
7. Quit Word completely and reopen it. Verify if the window size is what you set it to be.
8. Test other documents and hopefully they all open to your designated size.

Let us know if this works because if not that points to a problem in Word's preference profile and we'll probably have to help you reestablish them.

Assuming that you do mean that you want to use Full Screen View, the fastest & easiest solution is to use the built-in keyboard shortcut Control+Command+F when you want to send a document window to or restore from Full Screen. There's also the Full Screen [rightmost] stoplight button at the left end of the title bar if you prefer to use a click method.

OTOH, if you're looking to have new documents open at a specific custom window size &/or position on screen you'll need to use code to do so. As many times as this has been covered over the years I would think most of the regulars here would know that a template solution won't work [e.g., How do I get Word 2011 to remember its window assignment?]. Regardless of experience, though, testing the proposed 'solution' also would have revealed that to be the case. A template will honor the Zoom percentage at which it was saved but cannot control those other parameters unless it has the necessary code.

A number of macros have been published relevant to specific releases of the program. Unfortunately, VBA support has changed a bit with each release, so what works for one version won't work for another. I haven't seen a macro published for this purpose for Word 2016 and am not able to supply it.