You could add the following line to an autoopen macro which would force that
view, but I feel that it would get rather irritating after a while :(
ActiveWindow.View.ReadingLayout = True
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

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> Can this be done?
Hi Stephanie,
As Graham pointed out, you can use a macro in MS Word 2003
but in MS WordView 2003 (Word viewer) macros aren't supported
and MS doesn't have a supported method for setting a default
for the view option.
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