Page Size in Page Versus Other Word Processors

Question:
How can make the work area the size of the screen and make the control the size of the letters in the work area?
Background:(Useful if you don't understand the question only)
In word and in Mac ODT the while page is filled with the text but not page. I asked and read the manual. First I asked phone support about it, I called for another reason, and they said want the window to fill the computer screen no problem just pull it to the screen size unfortunately the text stays where it is not helpful. So I get the manual and its says no problem go to view and make it fit the with of the page. Now I have a giant letters and unreadable words.
In word they have a silly little thing call precent that allows the user to control both the size of the work area and the size of the image.
I have seen this question before but I have yet to see an answer. Is Mac ODT simply better then Pages. It seems better. It seems to have all the functions and more.
How can make the work area the size of the screen and make the control the size of the letters in the work area?

1. What is "Mac ODT"?
Interesting, the idea seems to be to turn plain text into rich text and then fill the imageable area with rich text in a single column.
Rich text is referred to as rich text and ODF Open Document Format is referred to, correctly, as ODT Open Document Text, but on the incorrect assumption that ODT is platform dependent.
There is no idea of frames within which one flows plain text, or linking frames across a spread, or of a light table after the metaphor for pagination introduced by Adobe, Aldus, and Apple.
There is also no idea of applying composition by automatic markup or by manual markup to paragraphs and to parts of paragraphs.
There is also no idea of a mechanical printing forme with composition and illustration wedged in place by furniture, or of a photo-mechanical printing form with composition and illustration pasted into place on the printing forme that has become a sheet of film.
To start everyday endusers off from scratch, they should have a film to watch. Steven Fry, who does a wonderful Jeeves, recently did a program for the BBC on reconstructing the machine that made us what we are, the Gutenberg press.
Something like that is what it takes to understand the difference between the single column mode and the multiple column mode of Pages.
Best,
Henrik

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