Google Docs Moves Closer to Microsoft Word with Fixed Width Page View aka Print Layout View

One of the big challenges in using Google Docs was editing documents big windows which would cause the writing canvas to stretch the entire browser width. On wide-screen displays, this often meant viewing entire paragraphs on just a line or two of the display. When the was printed out or sent to another medium where the width was sized down to something reasonable, you may be in for a surprise. Google introduced “Fixed Width Page View” which is very similar to Microsoft Word’s Print Layout view. This brings Google Docs much closer to Microsoft Word. However there is still a small niggle but with a simple solution.

While Google Docs doesn’t provide a simple way to zoom in and out, you can use the browsers zooming function to easily zoom in and out (use Ctrl + or Ctrl - in Firefox).

via Google