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Font Reduces in Word when Printing on A5
I am trying to help one of our senior members here with a problem that he is
having. i.e. Joe. I am writing a letter on M.S. Word and want to print that on size A5. The printing is no problem but the print size come up so small it is hardly readable. How can I overcome that? The size is even smaller than this. I did advise him to go into File/Page Setup/Paper and change the size to A5 but that didn't resolve his problem. Can anyone assist us please? -- Regards Joe Tasmania |
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Font Reduces in Word when Printing on A5
Setting page size to A5 is only half the answer. Several places need to
have the A5 selection. Go to the Properties button of your Print menu. Click on the "Effect" tab, and make sure that the document size is A5. Look right under it...there is a radio button that needs to be checked...Scale To Fit. Click on OK button. See if this helps. "Joe" wrote: I am trying to help one of our senior members here with a problem that he is having. i.e. Joe. I am writing a letter on M.S. Word and want to print that on size A5. The printing is no problem but the print size come up so small it is hardly readable. How can I overcome that? The size is even smaller than this. I did advise him to go into File/Page Setup/Paper and change the size to A5 but that didn't resolve his problem. Can anyone assist us please? -- Regards Joe Tasmania |
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Font Reduces in Word when Printing on A5
'Scale to fit' is more likely to be the problem than the solution. Changing
the document page setup shouldn't change the font size, but scaling in the print dialog certainly will. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Armadillow wrote: Setting page size to A5 is only half the answer. Several places need to have the A5 selection. Go to the Properties button of your Print menu. Click on the "Effect" tab, and make sure that the document size is A5. Look right under it...there is a radio button that needs to be checked...Scale To Fit. Click on OK button. See if this helps. "Joe" wrote: I am trying to help one of our senior members here with a problem that he is having. i.e. Joe. I am writing a letter on M.S. Word and want to print that on size A5. The printing is no problem but the print size come up so small it is hardly readable. How can I overcome that? The size is even smaller than this. I did advise him to go into File/Page Setup/Paper and change the size to A5 but that didn't resolve his problem. Can anyone assist us please? -- Regards Joe Tasmania |
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Font Reduces in Word when Printing on A5
Thanks Armidillow and Graham.
Graham, if ' scale to fit is more likely to be the problem than the solution ' what suggestions do you have to help this person please? -- Regards Joe Tasmania "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... 'Scale to fit' is more likely to be the problem than the solution. Changing the document page setup shouldn't change the font size, but scaling in the print dialog certainly will. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Armadillow wrote: Setting page size to A5 is only half the answer. Several places need to have the A5 selection. Go to the Properties button of your Print menu. Click on the "Effect" tab, and make sure that the document size is A5. Look right under it...there is a radio button that needs to be checked...Scale To Fit. Click on OK button. See if this helps. "Joe" wrote: I am trying to help one of our senior members here with a problem that he is having. i.e. Joe. I am writing a letter on M.S. Word and want to print that on size A5. The printing is no problem but the print size come up so small it is hardly readable. How can I overcome that? The size is even smaller than this. I did advise him to go into File/Page Setup/Paper and change the size to A5 but that didn't resolve his problem. Can anyone assist us please? -- Regards Joe Tasmania |
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If the document originally had a page size of greater than A4, file page
setup paper paper size A5 will change the paper size without changing the font size. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Joe wrote: Thanks Armidillow and Graham. Graham, if ' scale to fit is more likely to be the problem than the solution ' what suggestions do you have to help this person please? Regards Joe Tasmania "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... 'Scale to fit' is more likely to be the problem than the solution. Changing the document page setup shouldn't change the font size, but scaling in the print dialog certainly will. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Armadillow wrote: Setting page size to A5 is only half the answer. Several places need to have the A5 selection. Go to the Properties button of your Print menu. Click on the "Effect" tab, and make sure that the document size is A5. Look right under it...there is a radio button that needs to be checked...Scale To Fit. Click on OK button. See if this helps. "Joe" wrote: I am trying to help one of our senior members here with a problem that he is having. i.e. Joe. I am writing a letter on M.S. Word and want to print that on size A5. The printing is no problem but the print size come up so small it is hardly readable. How can I overcome that? The size is even smaller than this. I did advise him to go into File/Page Setup/Paper and change the size to A5 but that didn't resolve his problem. Can anyone assist us please? -- Regards Joe Tasmania |
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Just in case the obvious has been missed ....
When you say "senior member" do you perhaps mean "old" - and possibly someone who has failing eyesight and large fonts displayed on screen. If so, what size is the font really? Is the A5 paper actually relevant or is the font small on all paper sizes? -- Enjoy, Tony "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... If the document originally had a page size of greater than A4, file page setup paper paper size A5 will change the paper size without changing the font size. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Joe wrote: Thanks Armidillow and Graham. Graham, if ' scale to fit is more likely to be the problem than the solution ' what suggestions do you have to help this person please? Regards Joe Tasmania "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... 'Scale to fit' is more likely to be the problem than the solution. Changing the document page setup shouldn't change the font size, but scaling in the print dialog certainly will. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Armadillow wrote: Setting page size to A5 is only half the answer. Several places need to have the A5 selection. Go to the Properties button of your Print menu. Click on the "Effect" tab, and make sure that the document size is A5. Look right under it...there is a radio button that needs to be checked...Scale To Fit. Click on OK button. See if this helps. "Joe" wrote: I am trying to help one of our senior members here with a problem that he is having. i.e. Joe. I am writing a letter on M.S. Word and want to print that on size A5. The printing is no problem but the print size come up so small it is hardly readable. How can I overcome that? The size is even smaller than this. I did advise him to go into File/Page Setup/Paper and change the size to A5 but that didn't resolve his problem. Can anyone assist us please? -- Regards Joe Tasmania |
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But that was the reason for the request for help, the page was A4 size and
he wanted to print it out on A5 and when he increased the size of the paper the font reduced from Arial 12 down to about 6. I did copy and paste the original size that he sent me but it didn't display here. So the original did not have a size greater than A4, it was A4 thus my original posting. -- Regards Joe Tasmania "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... If the document originally had a page size of greater than A4, file page setup paper paper size A5 will change the paper size without changing the font size. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Joe wrote: Thanks Armidillow and Graham. Graham, if ' scale to fit is more likely to be the problem than the solution ' what suggestions do you have to help this person please? Regards Joe Tasmania "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... 'Scale to fit' is more likely to be the problem than the solution. Changing the document page setup shouldn't change the font size, but scaling in the print dialog certainly will. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Armadillow wrote: Setting page size to A5 is only half the answer. Several places need to have the A5 selection. Go to the Properties button of your Print menu. Click on the "Effect" tab, and make sure that the document size is A5. Look right under it...there is a radio button that needs to be checked...Scale To Fit. Click on OK button. See if this helps. "Joe" wrote: I am trying to help one of our senior members here with a problem that he is having. i.e. Joe. I am writing a letter on M.S. Word and want to print that on size A5. The printing is no problem but the print size come up so small it is hardly readable. How can I overcome that? The size is even smaller than this. I did advise him to go into File/Page Setup/Paper and change the size to A5 but that didn't resolve his problem. Can anyone assist us please? -- Regards Joe Tasmania |
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Font Reduces in Word when Printing on A5
Yes I do mean old or aged whatever term suits, we are a group of Seniors who
are in a state-wide organisation and I try and run the helpdesk to assist our members some of whom are aged up to the nineties. You can have a look at http://users.bigpond.com/linkingseniors/ if you desire to. The original font that he was using was Arial 12 and he had the page set to A4, but for some reason he wanted it printed on A5 and that's when the trouble began. As far as I know he only gets the font problem when he tries to print on the A5 paper. -- Regards Joe Tasmania "Tony Jollans" My Forename at My Surname dot com wrote in message ... Just in case the obvious has been missed .... When you say "senior member" do you perhaps mean "old" - and possibly someone who has failing eyesight and large fonts displayed on screen. If so, what size is the font really? Is the A5 paper actually relevant or is the font small on all paper sizes? -- Enjoy, Tony "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... If the document originally had a page size of greater than A4, file page setup paper paper size A5 will change the paper size without changing the font size. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Joe wrote: Thanks Armidillow and Graham. Graham, if ' scale to fit is more likely to be the problem than the solution ' what suggestions do you have to help this person please? Regards Joe Tasmania "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... 'Scale to fit' is more likely to be the problem than the solution. Changing the document page setup shouldn't change the font size, but scaling in the print dialog certainly will. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Armadillow wrote: Setting page size to A5 is only half the answer. Several places need to have the A5 selection. Go to the Properties button of your Print menu. Click on the "Effect" tab, and make sure that the document size is A5. Look right under it...there is a radio button that needs to be checked...Scale To Fit. Click on OK button. See if this helps. "Joe" wrote: I am trying to help one of our senior members here with a problem that he is having. i.e. Joe. I am writing a letter on M.S. Word and want to print that on size A5. The printing is no problem but the print size come up so small it is hardly readable. How can I overcome that? The size is even smaller than this. I did advise him to go into File/Page Setup/Paper and change the size to A5 but that didn't resolve his problem. Can anyone assist us please? -- Regards Joe Tasmania |
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Font Reduces in Word when Printing on A5
A senior moment there I meant to say 'greater than A5'.
My guess is that the user has set A5 as the paper size in the print dialog and is shrinking the A4 page to fit in that print dialog. This would indeed shrink the font size by half, to retain the page layout. There is no mechanism that would cause a paper size change as described in my previous post to change the font size. Changing the paper size merely causes the text to reflow on to more pages. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Joe wrote: But that was the reason for the request for help, the page was A4 size and he wanted to print it out on A5 and when he increased the size of the paper the font reduced from Arial 12 down to about 6. I did copy and paste the original size that he sent me but it didn't display here. So the original did not have a size greater than A4, it was A4 thus my original posting. Regards Joe Tasmania "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... If the document originally had a page size of greater than A4, file page setup paper paper size A5 will change the paper size without changing the font size. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Joe wrote: Thanks Armidillow and Graham. Graham, if ' scale to fit is more likely to be the problem than the solution ' what suggestions do you have to help this person please? Regards Joe Tasmania "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... 'Scale to fit' is more likely to be the problem than the solution. Changing the document page setup shouldn't change the font size, but scaling in the print dialog certainly will. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Armadillow wrote: Setting page size to A5 is only half the answer. Several places need to have the A5 selection. Go to the Properties button of your Print menu. Click on the "Effect" tab, and make sure that the document size is A5. Look right under it...there is a radio button that needs to be checked...Scale To Fit. Click on OK button. See if this helps. "Joe" wrote: I am trying to help one of our senior members here with a problem that he is having. i.e. Joe. I am writing a letter on M.S. Word and want to print that on size A5. The printing is no problem but the print size come up so small it is hardly readable. How can I overcome that? The size is even smaller than this. I did advise him to go into File/Page Setup/Paper and change the size to A5 but that didn't resolve his problem. Can anyone assist us please? -- Regards Joe Tasmania |
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To clarify, A5 is *smaller* than A4 (half the size). Word does not reduce
the font size when you reduce the paper size *unless* you're reducing the paper size by printing "2 pages per sheet" in the Print dialog or using the "Scale to paper size" option in the Print dialog. From the description, it sounds very likely that your user has selected A5 under "Scale to paper size" instead of actually resetting the paper size to A5 in the Page Setup dialog. If your user wants to *increase* the size of the printout, he could change the actual paper size to A5 in Page Setup and then choose A4 in the "Scale to paper size" dropdown in the Print dialog to print it twice as big. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Joe" wrote in message ... But that was the reason for the request for help, the page was A4 size and he wanted to print it out on A5 and when he increased the size of the paper the font reduced from Arial 12 down to about 6. I did copy and paste the original size that he sent me but it didn't display here. So the original did not have a size greater than A4, it was A4 thus my original posting. -- Regards Joe Tasmania "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... If the document originally had a page size of greater than A4, file page setup paper paper size A5 will change the paper size without changing the font size. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Joe wrote: Thanks Armidillow and Graham. Graham, if ' scale to fit is more likely to be the problem than the solution ' what suggestions do you have to help this person please? Regards Joe Tasmania "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... 'Scale to fit' is more likely to be the problem than the solution. Changing the document page setup shouldn't change the font size, but scaling in the print dialog certainly will. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Armadillow wrote: Setting page size to A5 is only half the answer. Several places need to have the A5 selection. Go to the Properties button of your Print menu. Click on the "Effect" tab, and make sure that the document size is A5. Look right under it...there is a radio button that needs to be checked...Scale To Fit. Click on OK button. See if this helps. "Joe" wrote: I am trying to help one of our senior members here with a problem that he is having. i.e. Joe. I am writing a letter on M.S. Word and want to print that on size A5. The printing is no problem but the print size come up so small it is hardly readable. How can I overcome that? The size is even smaller than this. I did advise him to go into File/Page Setup/Paper and change the size to A5 but that didn't resolve his problem. Can anyone assist us please? -- Regards Joe Tasmania |
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Many thanks to all who have responded to this posting, I have collated the
information and passed it onto our member. -- Regards Joe Tasmania "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... To clarify, A5 is *smaller* than A4 (half the size). Word does not reduce the font size when you reduce the paper size *unless* you're reducing the paper size by printing "2 pages per sheet" in the Print dialog or using the "Scale to paper size" option in the Print dialog. From the description, it sounds very likely that your user has selected A5 under "Scale to paper size" instead of actually resetting the paper size to A5 in the Page Setup dialog. If your user wants to *increase* the size of the printout, he could change the actual paper size to A5 in Page Setup and then choose A4 in the "Scale to paper size" dropdown in the Print dialog to print it twice as big. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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