There's a bug in Word that sometimes results in its thinking that you have a
single column narrower than the margin width or, worse still, two columns,
the first of which is margin width (leaving no room for the second).
Checking the "Equal column width" box cures this.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Words into Type
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"lorrwill" wrote in message
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I will try this when I get back to my office. The evil document in
question
definitely was not set up with columns but there may be a bit of spaghetti
code tucked away in there somewhere. I have found some buggy behavior in
other Word documents that makes me wonder whether someone did some less
than
desirable tweaking to the global template.
Thanks!
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:
Though I share CyberTaz's confusion, I'll charitably assume that you're
using landscape orientation. If so, try this:
1. Format | Columns.
2. Set "Apply to" to "Whole document."
3. Click on the preset picture for One (even if 1 column is already
selected); this will check the "Equal column width" box.
4. OK.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
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"lorrwill" wrote in message
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This is a very bizarre thing: the text is centered just fine in a
letter
sized document, but change the page size to legal and the centering is
still
for letter.
I checked the styles and formatting and there is nothing to explain
this.
Ditto with clearing all the formatting and then trying to center. I
also
tried creating a center tab - also didn't work.
The page does have a page border but I also found nothing in those
settings
to explain why the document text will not recognize the new page size.
Any ideas on how to solve this?
Thanks.