Any way to set a default view in Word 2007 or 2010 and keep among restarts?

A custom macro executed automatically upon opening a document is the right way. This blog post pointed me into the right direction. However, the code needed a slight modificaiton to make it work with both Word 2010 and Word 2007. Here it goes:

Public Sub AutoOpen()
    ThisDocument.Application.ActiveWindow.View.Zoom.PageColumns = 1
    ThisDocument.Application.ActiveWindow.View.Zoom.Percentage = 100
End Sub

Shall be installed into the Normal.dotm template.

Open the default template while in Word (path = C:\Users[your username]\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Templates. Open the file named either "Normal.dotm" or "Normal.dotx." On the view tab, click "page layout" and in the zoom panel, click "one page." Save and close. You can change a lot of other default settings here, too, such as font size, style, etc.

In 2010: I opened a blank document, set it up to view the way I wanted, then did a Save As, and now Word is opening normally again. A simple Save didn't work had to Save As.

Apparently some document that a coworker had me work on (that she had started on) screwed up my default settings when I did a Save As.