Combining Files - Controlling Bookmark Magnification

Application:  Adobe Acrobat X Pro
When combining groups of files (usually .doc files) into a single .pdf file, bookmarks are automatically created for the first page of each source file – which is a convenient feature.
I frequently combine multi-sized pages, but I can't know whether my readers have changed their default Page Display Zoom setting.  I want to make sure that for each new 'section' (or source file) in the combined .pdf file (where the bookmarks are set) they see the whole page first.
I know how to edit each bookmark's magnification to be ‘Fit Page’ after the files have been combined, but manually editing each bookmark one-at-a-time is tedious.
Question:  Is there a setting to control the magnification of automatically-created bookmarks before multiple files are combined into a single .pdf file?
Thanks in advance. – Jim
Message was edited by: LipseyJ - revised content.

Not possible with Acrobat. The defaults cannot be changed, and there is no way to alter the action of an existing bookmark via scripting so it can't be automated without a custom plugin (I don't know of one that does it out of the box).

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