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This is in Word 2007.

The problem I am having is with the left/right margins:

When in print layout (and print preview) the page appears to be your
standard, run-of the mill letter-sized document. The fanciest aspects on
the page are some centered text and a few bulleted paragraphs. No images,
no tables, no hyperlinks, nothing that I can think of that would make a
difference.

When I switch to web layout the page size changes itself: the ruler at the
top indicates the page is 10 1/2 inches wide (even though the ruler in print
layout says 8 1/2 inches wide) and when I grab the right edge of the white
space on the ruler (with the cursor changing to a left/right arrow) and drag
the paper size back to what it should be it snaps back as soon as I release
the mouse button.

Shouldn't the margins be the same regardless of which layout you are
viewing?

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
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Is the issue that there appears to be no margin at the top and bottom of
the page? If that is the case, move the mouse cursor to the junction
between two pages until the mouse cursor changes to two vertically opposed
arrows at which point you should get a tooltip appearing with the message
"Double-click to show white space". Double click with the left mouse
button.

There is also a setting for this under Options, but you did not say what
version of Word you are using and the location differs by version (at
least with 2007)

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
"Wowbagger" privacy, please wrote in message
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I have a document with .5 .5 .5 .5 margins that display correctly in every
view except for page layout - when viewing in layout mode I cannot get
Word to treat the document as an 8 1/2 x 11 page.

How can I correct this issue?