Page Setup settings are per section. Your best bet may be to delete all
section breaks, set your margins, then reinsert the section breaks.

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"Andy" wrote in message
...
I have to format some documents that have been revised a lot by several
people, so I've got lots of ghosts to contend with, but not enough time to
re-create the docs from scratch. The biggest problem I'm having is that
the
mirror margins won't work consistently from page to page. Sometimes at the
start of a section, sometimes in the middle of a section, it will switch
keep
the gutter on the same side as the previous page. I've noticed that if I
go
and change it from Inside margin .5, Outside .5, and gutter .5 to: inside
..5,
Outside 1", and gutter 0 it sometimes corrects itself, but not every time
and
I'm not happy with this option since I'm not confident that it will hold
later on.

Also, would anyone recommend a "clear all formating" option for this
document?

Thanks so much for any help!!!!