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If you want to just read a Word document rather than work on it, Read Mode is a great way for you to do it. The Read Mode in Word 2013 effectively hides most of the writing tools and menus, giving as much room as possible for the pages themselves, and fits the page layout to the device that you are using. Essentially, Read Mode adjusts the font size, columns, and allows you to adjust the settings to make the reading of your document as comfortable as possible. There are also options left for you to use while in Read Mode. These include the Find function, Search with Bing function, Inking function, Navigation Pane, and Comments. There are 2 kinds of layout in Read Mode--Paper Layout and Column Layout. There are various options for you to experiment with in Read Mode. To know more, watch this video!

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Hello again and welcome back to our course on Word 2013. In this section, we’re going to look at one of the new features of Word 2013 and that is Read Mode.

Now if you’ve used an earlier version of Word, you may be familiar with a view such as Full Screen reading mode and really Read Mode is a development from there. The basic idea of Read Mode is that if you really want to read the document rather than work on it, rather than edit it, then Read Mode hides the writing tools and menus and it gives as much room as possible for the pages themselves.

The other aspect of Read Mode which is important with the various devices that we’re now running Word 2013 is that Word 2013 fits the page layout to the device. So it will adjust columns, it will adjust font sizes, and so on, but also it lets you adjust the settings to make the reading of a document in Word 2013 on your device as comfortable as possible. I should point out that when I say it removes the tools for editing, it does actually leave certain things in place, as we’ll see in a moment.

So to enter Read Mode, you can either click on the button on the status bar that’s the left hand one of the group of View buttons or use the one in the Views Group on the View tab on the Ribbon. Click and it takes you into Read Mode.

Now in Read Mode, there is no Ribbon and you just have at the top these three words: there’s File to take you into Backstage View, Tools that lets you do a restricted number of things, there’s a Find function, a Search with Bing function, and an Inking function and I’ll talk about those in a moment, and then the View let’s you view the Navigation Pane. Clearly if you were in Read Mode with a long document, it would be useful to be able to find your way round and the Navigation Pane is a great way of doing that. And you also have an option to show Comments.

Now we haven’t looked at Comments so far, but basically if people put comments on the document, you may want to be able to see those as you’re reading through a document. This may for example be a document that you’re reading but which you’re ultimately are going to need to make comments on yourself or in fact you may need to respond to comments about it.

Within Read Mode, there are a couple of additional things you can do to make things more comfortable for you in terms of reading a document. You can remove the toolbar all together by using this button in the top right. So to the left of the Close, Maximize, and Minimize this button says Auto-hide reading toolbar, but I’m going to leave the toolbar in place at the moment because I want to go over to the View Menu here and look at the bottom option which is Layout.

There are two choices of layout. There’s Paper Layout and as you can see that’s the selected one at the moment, which means that I can basically scroll up and down through the document. But there’s an alternative layout called Column Layout, and in Column Layout it’s much more like the modern style of book or document reader where you have a button to turn pages.

So for instance here I can read that page when I finish with it. I can click on the button to take me to the next page and there’s a button there to take me back as well. So that’s an alternative mode of working your way through the pages of a document.

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