The referenced article will walk you through finding and editing Normal.dot.

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"Mamatoots" wrote in message
...
The Format/columns worked and am able to work now. Thank you. I did try
to
follow the directions regarding Normal.dot but was unable to do
so.....found
no files for normal.dot. Found a normal.bin and normal.fmt. Not very
experienced with computers and just quit....I know, you can't hurt
it...believe me when I say I can tear up a ball bearing! I have windows XP
and Word 2003-if you could "walk" me thru it, I'd be eternally grateful.
B

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

In that case, go to Format | Columns and click on the preset labeled One
(this is different from just selecting 1 as the number of columns). If
that
corrects the issue in the present document, then you will need to make
the
same change in Normal.dot (see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm).

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"Mamatoots" wrote in message
...
I am not working with sections....just a new word document. When I
try to
change the orientation from Landscape to Portrait, I get
messge"Increasing
right margin causes las column to become too narrow in some sections
having
unevenly spaced columns....."

I have tried everything suggested here and I am still at a loss.
Changing
margins doesn't work. Every document I open and created is in
landscape.
I
NEED PORTRAIT. What do I do? Please Help me.


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

What happens if you change the last, Landscape section to Portrait
before
deleting the section break? Also, have you gone to Format | Columns
and
clicked on the One button?

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"A. Siddiqi" A. wrote in message
...
I have exactly the same problem as Michel. Have ALREADY tried
whatever
was
offered by others in thread, Nothing works. The last Landscape
page
just
wont go away. Deleting the section break, automatically changes
the
previous
portrait section to landscpae. Attempts to change it back to
portrait
are
met with error message Michel mentioned. Can somebidy help???
PLease??

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

In such cases, however, it's easier to use Insert | File to
insert
the
old
document into a fresh document based on the template containing
the
styles,
especially if the new document format includes different
margins,
header/footer, etc.

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"Michel Offringa" wrote in message
...
I looked to the 'Working with sections' part but there was no
helpfull
information for me (or is there ?).
Please also look at all of my previous messages in this
thread.

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Greetings and thanks
Michel


"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

See
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...thSections.htm

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"Michel Offringa"
wrote
in
message
...
If i copy a portrait oriented section break (next page)
from
another
part
of the report to the end the pages i want changed from
landscape
to
portrait
are changed. But.....an extra (landscape oriented) page is
added
which i
dont want.

Copying a continuous section break doesnt work either.

Can someone please help me ???
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Greetings and thanks
Michel


"Michel Offringa" wrote:

I am creating the fourth section with
Insert/Break/Section-Next
Page.
I get the error message when i try to change the
orientation
from
Landscape to Portrait (even after changing the right margins
etc.).
I use Word 2002 SP-2.

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Michel


"Jean-Guy Marcil" wrote:

Bonjour,

Dans son message, Michel Offringa écrivait :
In this message, Michel Offringa wrote:

|| Hello,
||
|| I hope anyone can help me.
|| I am working on a report whcih has 3 sections. The
first
without a
header
(front page). The
|| second has a header and is portrait oriented.
|| The third section has a header (different from the
second)
and
is
landscape oriented.
|| Now i want to add a fourth section at the end of
the
document
with
the
same header as the third
|| section but portrait oriented. When i try to do
that i
get
an
error
that
some of the margins
|| etc. are too large for the page. I cannot find a
way to
solve
this
problem.
||

How are you creating the fourth section and at which
point
during
that
creation process do you get the error message? What
Word
version?
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Salut!
_______________________________________
Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP
ISTOO
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