Word comes with some useful layouts for viewing your documents in different situations. These layouts include a print-friendly layout, a webpage layout, and a new layout as of Word 2013 called “Read Mode” that’s aimed at viewing documents on modern devices such as tablets.
The “Read Mode” adjusts the document according to the screen size. This applies not only to the text, but also to content such as images, videos, tables, etc. You page through your document in “Read Mode” horizontally, rather than vertically, for better viewing and reading on tablets.
In addition, in Reading view, Word Online offers Accessible Mode, which can make reading much easier for people who use a screen reader. In Accessibility Mode, Word Online presents a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of the file with tagging in your browser. Open a document in Word and find and click on the ‘Read Mode’ icon at the bottom, to activate the reading mode. The icon is present just below your document. Check out the screenshot below! In addition, in Reading view, Word Online offers Accessible Mode, which can make reading much easier for people who use a screen reader. In Accessibility Mode, Word Online presents a Portable Document Format (PDF) version of the file with tagging in your browser.
NOTE: The “Read Mode” is different than “read-only mode”. The “read-only mode” is a protected mode for documents that prevents changes from being made to a document in any layout for security purposes. The “Read Mode” is for changing the layout of a document for better and easier viewing.
To activate “Read Mode” for the current document, click the “View” tab.
In the “Views” section of the “View” tab, click “Read Mode”.
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.
The document is displayed in a distraction-free window with a Reading toolbar at the top of the window.
There are a couple of ways to browse through the pages of your document. 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.
You can zoom in and out of your document using the slider on the right side of the status bar. The currently selected percentage displays to the right of the slider. To zoom in on a particular object, such as an image, double-click on the object.
If you want even more distraction-free goodness, you can automatically hide the toolbar at the top of the window.
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. To access the menus on the Reading toolbar, click the “…” button.
To show the menus and filename permanently again, click the “Always Show Reading Toolbar” button.
The menus and filename are restored, but the window is left in full-screen mode. To exit full-screen mode and return to resizable window, click the “Restore Down” button.
By default, uneditable documents, such as email attachments, open in “Read Mode”. If you don’t want this to be the default, click “File” in the upper-left corner of the Reading toolbar.
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On the “Info” backstage screen, click “Options” in the list of items on the left.
The “General” screen should display by default. If not, click “General” in the list of items on the left. 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. Click “OK” to accept the change and close the dialog box.
You can also easily navigate through the document by clicking “VIEW” on the Reading toolbar and selecting “Navigation Pane” from the drop-down menu.
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 use it to find text and Word objects, such as tables and images, and to navigate through your document using thumbnails of the pages.
Close the “Navigation” pane by clicking the “X” in the upper-right corner of the pane.
Even though you can’t edit your document in “Read Mode”, you can add comments. 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.
NOTE: This popup menu also contains additional commands that allow you to “Copy”, “Define”, or “Translate” the selected text, as well as apply a “Highlight” to it. The “Search with Bing” command is also available on the “TOOLS” menu on the Reading toolbar.
A “Comments” box displays on the right side of the window under a callout icon. Type your comment in the box and click “X” to close the comment. You can also click anywhere outside the comment box to close it.
The text you selected displays as highlighted when the comment is open.
After you close the comment, you can open it again by clicking the callout icon on the right side of the window.
If you want to see all the comments in the document, click “VIEW” on the Reading toolbar and select “Show Comments” from the drop-down menu.
The comments are displayed in a column to the right of the content in your document with lines connecting them to the content they reference. To hide the comments again, select “Show Comments” from the “VIEW” menu again.
By default, the content in your document is displayed in two columns. You may not notice this if the window is not wide enough. You can change the width of these columns by selecting “Column Width” from the “VIEW” menu, and then selecting “Narrow” or “Wide”.
The color of the page in “Read Mode” is white, by default. If you want to use a different “Page Color”, on the “VIEW” menu to make it easier on your eyes, you can choose “Sepia”, which will make the window less bright, or “Inverse”, if you’re reading at night or in a dark or dim room.
Earlier we showed you how to change the width of the columns. What if you don’t want to view your document in columns? You can turn this off by selecting “Layout” from the “VIEW” menu and then selecting “Paper Layout”. Your document will display in one column no matter how wide you make the window. The “Column Width” and “Page Color” options are grayed out and not available.
There are several tools available in “Read Mode”. Using the “TOOLS” menu, you can “Find” text (this opens the “Navigation” pane), “Search with Bing” (opens Bing in a browser to search the internet), and “Undo Typing in Comment” and “Redo Typing in Comment”.
You can return to editing your document by selecting “Edit Document” from the “VIEW” menu.
If you prefer keyboard shortcuts, you can also press “Alt + W + F” to open a document in “Read Mode”.
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It certainly isn't clearly stated in the article you cited that it refers only to the Windows product... in fact, I would agree that it's misleading, but if you check the fine print @ the bottom of that page you'll see that only Windows versions are specified. No version of Word for Mac is mentioned. Word 2016 for Mac does not have the Focus View provided in Word 2011 or anything comparable to the Full Screen Reading feature in the various PC releases.
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Right now, the MS web sites are in a state of flux, & IMHO they've put the proverbial cart way ahead of the horse. Ostensibly, the long-term goal is to make the Windows & Mac versions as identical as possible. As you can readily see, they've not only made negligible progress in that endeavor but also have ripped out numerous features that were included in the Mac product. However, they've redesigned the web sites in such a way that everything points to the PC version, as though feature parity already has been attained. Unless you expressly go digging for Mac-oriented info you won't be guided to anything other than what refers to Office for Windows. A tip, FWIW: If the string mac doesn't appear in the URL, the page most likely is primarily -- if not entirely -- Windows-centric.
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The jumping off point for Mac Office info is: https://products.office.com/en-us/mac/microsoft-office-for-mac which does, for the most part, link to more Mac-specific pages. Don't expect to find much you don't already know, though... there's little to brag about, advertise, or even describe in this release as it stands. Improvement is expected to come by way of updates, but what or when has not been announced.