Word offers several document viewing modes that are useful in various situations. Among them there is a view mode (convenient for printing), a web page mode and a reading mode. Reading View has been available since Word 2013 and is designed to help you easily view documents on modern devices such as tablets.
Reading mode scales the document based on the screen size. This is reflected not only in the text, but also in other content - in pictures, videos, tables, and so on. The page of your document for easier viewing and reading on tablets is not vertical, but horizontal.
Comment: Reader mode is not the same as read-only mode. Mode Only for reading is designed to protect the document, which in any view mode protects the document from making any changes. Reading mode is just a more convenient viewing mode.
To enable reading mode for the current document, click the tab View(View).
In section View modes(Views) click Reading mode(Read Mode).
Comment: In addition, you can turn on the reading mode by clicking the book-shaped icon on the right side of the status bar at the very bottom of the Word window.
The document will open without unnecessary distractions and with a toolbar Reading at the top of the window.
There are a couple of ways to navigate through the pages of a document. You can use the right and left arrows on the sides of the screen, or the right and left arrows on the keyboard.
You can zoom in and out of the document using the slider on the right side of the status bar. The current scale is displayed to the right of the slider. To enlarge a particular object (for example, a picture), double-click on this object.
If you want to keep even fewer distractions on your screen, turn on auto-hide the toolbar at the top of the window.
The window will automatically expand to full screen, the toolbars will hide, leaving only a few controls in the upper right corner of the window. To open the toolbar menu Reading, click the “ … “.
To turn the menu and file name always on again, press the button. Always show the reading toolbar(Always Show Reading Toolbar).
The menu and file name will reappear on the screen, but the window will remain maximized. To exit full screen mode and return to a normal customizable window, click the button. Reestablish(Restore Down).
Documents that are not meant to be edited (such as email attachments) open in Reading view by default. If you want to change these settings, click on the tab File(File) in the top left corner of the toolbar Reading.
On the left side of the window Intelligence(Info) click Parameters(Options).
The section opens by default. General(General). If another section has opened, then click on the corresponding button in the list on the left. In a group Launch parameters(Start up options) uncheck Open email attachments and other non-editable files in read mode(Open email attachments and other uneditable files in reading view). Click OK to save changes and close the dialog box.
For easy document navigation on the toolbar Reading open tab View(View) and from the menu select Navigation area(Navigation pane).
The Navigation Pane allows you to easily navigate throughout your document by displaying its heading structure. To move to any section, you just need to click on its title. With it, you can find text, tables, pictures and other Word objects, as well as navigate through the document using page thumbnails.
To close Navigation area press the button X in the top right corner of the panel.
You cannot edit a document in Reading View, but you can add notes. To do this, select the text to which you want to attach a note, right-click on it and in the context menu click Create note(New Comment).
Comment: The context menu also contains a number of commands with which you can copy, search for definitions, translate selected text, and apply selection to it. Command Search with Bing(Search with Bing) is also available on the tab Service(Tools) toolbars Reading.
An input field will appear on the right side of the window. Enter a note in it and click X to hide it. The note field is also closed by a simple click anywhere away from it.
The text you select will be highlighted when the note is open.
After the note has been hidden, it can be shown again by clicking on the footnote on the right side of the window.
If you want to display all notes in the document, then on the toolbar Reading click View > Show notes(View > Show Comments).
The notes will be shown in the column on the right, connected by lines to the content they are linked to. To hide all notes again, click again Show notes(Show Comments).
By default, the content of your document is shown in two columns. You may not notice this if the window is not open wide enough. The width of these columns can be adjusted by clicking View > Column Width(View > Column Width) and select Narrow(Narrow) or Wide(Wide).
The page color in Reading View is white by default. You can change it, for this in the menu View(View) click Page color(Page Color) and choose a color that is more pleasing to your eyes, for example, Sepia(Sepia) - makes the screen less bright, and Inversion(Inverse) - It is more convenient to read at night or in a dark room.
Earlier we showed you how you can change the width of the columns. What if you don't want to view your document in columns? To disable this, click View > Layout(View > Layout) and select an option Page layout(Paper Layout). Now your document is displayed in one column, regardless of the window width. Parameters Column Width(Column Width) and Page color(Page Color) turned gray and became unavailable.
Several tools are available in Reading Mode. On the menu Service(Tools) are commands To find(Find) to search for text (this opens the navigation pane), Search with Bing(Search with Bing) - opens the Bing search engine in the browser to search the Internet, as well as Cancel text entry in a note(Undo Typing in Comment) and
Reading articles in a special reading mode is much easier, more convenient and more enjoyable than in the usual way. That is why there are browser extensions that allow you to put an article into reading mode and read it like text from a piece of paper. Gradually, this functionality is transferred to the browsers themselves in the form of built-in features. So, there is a reading mode, which is still being tested, but is already quite functional ..
How to Activate Reading Mode in Google Chrome
To enable reading mode in Chrome, you need to add an additional command line parameter:
--enable-dom-distiller
Opening the shortcut properties
If you launch the browser from the "Taskbar"
Right-click on the Chrome shortcut on the taskbar. Then also right-click on the Google Chrome item, which is located third from the bottom (as shown in the picture below).
In the menu that appears, select "Properties".
If you launch the browser from the "Desktop"
Right-click on the Chrome shortcut and select " Properties". After that, the shortcut properties window will open, which you need to add.
Adding a parameter to the launch line
In the window that appears, find the field " An object» and at the end of the line, after a space, add the parameter --enable-dom-distiller. An example is shown in the picture below.
When finished editing, press the button OK».
It remains only to restart the browser and the new reading mode will be activated.
How to enable Reader Mode in Google Chrome
Activating reading mode in Chrome so far still requires a little more effort than just clicking a button on the browser toolbar. Due to the fact that this mode is still being tested, its launch has not yet been added to a prominent place.
However, it's not hard to get started. You have to click on the button Menu" on the top right (its second name is "hamburger" because of the horizontal stripes that vaguely resemble this food product) and select the item " Shrink page". After that, the page will be filtered and only the main article will remain in it.
This is how the article "" usually looks like in normal mode.
And this is how it will look in reading mode in the Google Chrome browser.
As you can see, after turning on the reading mode, reading the material is much more convenient and easier, since all other elements are turned off.
To return to normal view mode, simply click on the " Back» browser.
If the item "Compress page" did not appear for you
Most likely your browser is still running. Make sure there is no browser icon in the system tray.
If it is there, then use the right mouse button to call up the context menu, select the "Exit" item, and only then launch it again using the shortcut for which the read mode activation parameter has been added.
The Yandex browser has a built-in reading mode, with which it is convenient and comfortable to read articles on site pages. In reading mode, the text posted on the site is presented in an easy-to-read form, without unnecessary elements that overload the web page and make it difficult to perceive the content.
Reading mode in Yandex Browser first appeared in the version of Yandex browser for Android, and then in the version of the browser for PC, running on all major platforms (Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, iOS). This is not a new mode for Yandex, since Yandex Elements (Yandex.Bar), an add-on for browsers, has a similar "text only" mode. Reading mode is now implemented in Yandex.Browser.
To comfortably read an article on a website, the user needs to switch to reading mode. The contents of the web page will be transformed and will be displayed in the so-called book version. This means that the formatting of the open page will change, all unnecessary site elements (navigation bars, ads, etc.) that are not related to the text of the article will be removed.
Reader mode does not work on homepages of sites. Because there are various elements of the site structure that represent the website for the visitor, in many cases, the main pages have only headlines or article announcements. Also, the read mode does not work on catalog pages, for the reasons mentioned above.
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How to enable reading mode in Yandex Browser
How to enable reading mode in Yandex? The reading mode works on the pages of sites containing a certain amount of text, mostly separate articles. The Easy Reading feature is built into Yandex.Browser, so the user does not need to do anything else.
In order to enable reading mode, enter the site page. A dedicated Reading Mode icon will appear in the address bar bar.
After that, a web page will open in the browser, in which only text content will be displayed. A button will appear opposite the address bar that says "Reading Mode", which means that the reading mode in the browser is enabled.
You will see that all extraneous elements of the site have been removed, except for the text of the article and images located directly in the body of the article.
Reading mode settings in Yandex Browser
After moving the mouse cursor to the top panel of the browser, a special panel with settings for the reading mode will open.
The following settings are available in Yandex.Browser, with which you can change the display settings of the reading mode in the browser:
- Increase or decrease text size
- Page background color changes
- Font selection
Use the "+" and "-" buttons to adjust the font size. The text size can be increased or decreased four times.
For a better experience, change the background of the page. By default, a light gray background opens in the browser. Additionally, sepia and black (dark) background colors are available. Change the background color in order to better see the text on the monitor screen at night.
Two font styles are available in Yandex Browser reading mode: Georgia and Arial. Choose the font that you perceive better.
The settings panel will close after you move your mouse cursor away from the top of the Yandex browser window.
How to turn off reading mode in Yandex Browser
Exiting reading mode in Yandex Browser is quite simple. After clicking on the "Reading Mode" icon opposite the "smart line" (address bar), the reading mode in the browser will be disabled.
After that, the web page will take its original form. The site page will display all the elements of this page.
Article Conclusions
Reading mode in Yandex Browser allows you to enable the easy reading function, in which all unnecessary elements are removed from the site page, except for the text and illustrations included in the text of the article on the site page.
Hello! Most of our contemporaries draw information from the Internet. And if you have firmly decided to become a blogger, then you will have to constantly extract more and more new knowledge for yourself on the Internet. To make your work easier, today I will talk about how to enable reading mode in the browser. This mode will not only make your reading comfortable, but will also protect your eyesight.
For clarity, I took a screenshot of a fragment of one of my articles. This is what it looks like when viewed normally in a browser window.
And this is how it is already displayed when the reading mode is on. As you can see, as the text and images get larger, the sidebar is no longer displayed. In fact, the information that is really needed remains.
To be able to do this, you just need to add a special extension to your browser called Reader Mode. This is an official extension from the Chrome Web Store. There you are direct link to installation page .
Just click on the "Install" button and the automatic installation process will begin. In this case, the browser will ask you for additional permission to install. You just have to agree - click the "Install extension" button.
In just a couple of seconds, the installation will complete. You will see a window like this notifying you that the extension has been added to Chrome.
And next to the search bar of the browser you will see an icon in the form of glasses.
This is the treasured button to turn on the reading mode. Now, by clicking on it, you can easily translate any site that has a sidebar on the page into a mode convenient for you.
The Reader Mode extension in question can work in any browser based on the Chromium engine. Naturally, it will work directly in Google Chrome, similarly in Yandex browser and other similar browsers. For example, in the Vivaldi browser.
In order not to rack your brains on how to install it in a particular browser, just open this article in it and follow the installation link.
If your favorite browser is Mozilla Firefox, then you are a bit out of luck. It does not support this possibility. Although it can also be switched to reading mode, this will require special knowledge. You can search for a solution yourself on the Internet. I wrote this article for beginners, who find it much easier to install the extension.
So read for pleasure and benefit. And if you still have any questions, then ask them in the comments.
Sometimes it is necessary to see the entire sheet of the document in full size in order to highlight important points in the text with a marker or add a note. To freely read sheet by sheet and make edits, the reading mode in Word will help. You can turn on Reader Mode as follows:
Exit Reading Mode
After reading the entire text and adding notes, you need to somehow exit the reading mode. In this case, there are two ways. The first is to press the "ESC" button. This key is located above the letter "Yo".
The second method is attentiveness - in the upper right corner of the entire document, there is a "Close" button with a cross. After clicking on it, the document will return from full-screen reading mode to the standard markup mode.
Read-only document
If the document is opened “read-only”, then the “Enable editing” button will help to exit this mode. It is located at the top of the open Word program as an orange notification pop-up.
Note. It is advisable, after making all the changes to the article, to save the file in a separate folder or give a new name to the file.
If, after the steps taken, it was not possible to start editing the file, then try the following method. To remove restrictions from a Word document, you need to right-click on a closed Word file and select "Properties".
