Selecting Document Views In Microsoft Office Word

The document window gives you an option to displays your documents in four different perspectives. Changing to a certain view option does not effect the document contents in any way and only shows you different layouts for your document. These options are:
Normal View
Web Layout View
Print Layout View
Outline View

You can select these options from the View Menu or by clicking their respective icons placed on the leftmost section of the horizontal scroll bar as shown in image below

Normal View
Work in normal view for typing, editing, and formatting text. Normal view shows text formatting but simplifies the layout of the layout of the page so that you can type and edit quickly.

Web Layout View
Work in web layout view when you are creating a  web page or a document that is viewed on the screen. In web layout view, you can see backgrounds, text is wrapped to fit the window, and graphics are positioned just as they are in a web browsr.

Print Layout View
Work in print layout view to see how text, graphics, and other elements will be positioned on the printed page. This view is useful for editing headers and footers, for adjusting margins, and for working with columns and drawing objects. This option gives you the exact layout of your final document. 

Outline View 
Work in outline view to look at the structure of document and to move, copy, and reorganize text by dragging headings. In outline view, you can collapse a document to see only the main headings, or you can expand it to see all headings and even body text. Outline view also makes it easy to work with 'master document'. A master document make it easier to organize and maintain a long document, such as multi part report or a book with chapters. In outline view, page boundaries, headers and footers, graphics, and backgrounds do not appear.