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View Buttons on Status Bar:

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The Views

Print Layout:

Default view. 
Shows how the page will look when printed.

This view is good for adjusting margins and columns, headers and footers, and for working with drawing objects, text boxes, and frames. This view may look slightly different from the Print Preview, depending on your printer.

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Web Layout: 

Shows how your document looks when viewed as a web page. 

In a web page text wraps to the window rather than wrapping to the page.

Navigation Pane: The illustration shows an additional feature on the left, the Document Map (2007), also called the Navigation Pane (2010, 2013). If you click an item in the document map, you are moved to that spot in the document on the right. You must assign heading paragraph styles to your text to see anything in the Navigation pane.

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Outline:

The document's paragraph styles are used to create an outline.

In this view it is easy to reorganize whole sections of a long document by collapsing the outline section and dragging it to a new location. This is an advantage over the Page Layout and Draft views where large amounts of text are hard to select. But, you must assign paragraph styles to your text carefully for this to work.  

A feature of the outline view is creating a master document by combining several Word documents. This is useful for long documents with several chapters or sections or for documents that have different parts written by different people. The view looks like the Outline view but the entries are coming from more than one document.

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Full Screen Reading or Read Mode:

Large images on the page may not fit this view. Pages with columns or large tables may be easier to read in Print Layout.

The "pages" are screen pages, NOT how the document will print!

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Draft:

Default view in earlier versions of Word.  

You can clearly see what you are typing and editing in Draft view. But, you will not see the full formatting. You may see placeholders for the pictures, tables, text boxes, and frames.

This view was useful in the very early days of word processors. It took a lot of time for the computer to calculate where everything went. For every change, it had to re-calculate. Painfully slow! Most people found it easier to enter all of the text first and then arrange it all and do most of the formatting and adding of images afterwards.

Nowadays computers are fast enough to make it easy to format and position things as you go. So the Print Layout view is the default view in Word 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016.

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Print Preview:

Though it is not on the View ribbon, Print Preview is a very important view. It displays exactly how the document will look after being printed. At least it usually does! Print Preview can be subtly different from the Print Layout view, especially with headers and footers. Occasionally, a header or footer will not completely print, even though they displayed fine in the Print Preview.

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Split:

This view shows two parts of the same document at once.

Each horizontal section has its own scrollbar. You can even use a different style view for each split.

To create a split:

Method 1: Word 2007, 2010 - Split Box
Point with the mouse pointer to the split box at the top of the scrollbar. The pointer changes to a resize shape . Drag downward and the document window splits horizontally.
(Word 2013 does not have a split box.)

Method 2: All versions - Split button
Click the Split button on the View ribbon. A split bar appears in the middle of the window. Drag the Split bar up and down to adjust the sizes and click the left mouse button to accept the sizes.

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Zoom in any view:

Whatever view you are in, you can use the Zoom button on the View tab or the Zoom slider on the Status bar to enlarge or reduce what you see. You can even show several pages at a time.

Useful for:

• Spotting unplanned blank pages easily!
• Selecting a large selection
• Moving a selection between pages.

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