100% zoom vs one/two page display

Question

If I hit one page view, the text gets scrunched down to a hard to read level.  If I hit 100% zoom I see two pages.  What I'd like to do is see the document in 100% and then simply keep scrolling down.  It seems like Word 2007 really forces
you into a devil's choice:  two pages side-by-side, or a zoom to an unreadable level to completely fit one page on the screen.  Again, what I'd like to get is as much of one page as possible (and only one page), and 100% zoom.  Thanks.

Answer 1

Why are the developers unwilling to implement a solution to this problem, and instead just telling us helpless users to live with a workaround? All it takes is to push a non-critical update through Microsoft Update to fix this for everybody.
I'm pretty sure you have a big team of developers working on developing Microsoft Word. If I can think of all the possible solutions below just by myself, why can't that whole team come up with something ever better? Seriously?
Either: Provide a new option under
Word Options > Display > Page display options that says
"Prefer displaying single page in Print Layout view." with an information tooltip
(i) that says "Word prefers displaying two or more pages in a row if the zoom level and the width of its window allows it. Turn on this option to force Word to always display a single page per row at any zoom level, regardless of available
width." 
- The next solution may be better than this as at low zoom levels the small unreadable pages will be displayed as a continuous string instead of a grid.
- You may even include a checkbox on the Ribbon to easily toggle this.
Or: Provide a new option under
Word Options > Display > Page display options that says
"Prefer displaying one page instead of two pages in Print Layout view." with an information tooltip
(i) that says "Word prefers displaying two or more pages in a row if the zoom level and the width of Word's window allows it. Turn on this option to force Word to display a single page at zoom levels where normally two pages are displayed side
by side in a row. This option is most useful if you have a widescreen monitor, and it will not affect zoom levels where three or more pages can be displayed in a row."
- This means when the zoom level is small enough to allow three or more pages on a row, Word reverts to normal behavior (but two pages must always be shown as one page).
- You may even include a checkbox on the Ribbon to easily toggle this.
Or: In the
Zoom section of View tab of the Ribbon, make One Page and
Two Pages buttons behave as toggle buttons. When
"One Page" is toggled on, always display one page no matter what the zoom level. When
"Two Pages" is toggled on, always display two pages unless the zoom gets too big. When
both are toggled off, use normal behavior. 
- Of course, don't allow both to be toggled on at same time.
If Microsoft ever puts me in the dev team of Word, I'm telling you a LOT of things will change. For starters, I'll listen to user suggestions and attempt to implement the good bunch instead of throwing workarounds at them and telling them to live with it.
Of course, that's not gonna happen coz I don't know why manholes are round and not square!