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Margins warning when printing
I've specified a custom page size for my document that is smaller that the US
Letter paper I actually have in my printer. Each time I print the document, I get the warning, "The margins of section 1 are outside the printable area of the page." The document actually prints fine on US Letter paper, though I'd prefer it to be vertically centered on the page. (It's already centered horizontally.) Googling for this issue has failed to yield a fix, including these two MS KB articles: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q291336/ http://support.microsoft.com/kb/224061/ I get the same warning when I print to PDF instead of printing to a real printer. I'm using Word 2002. Does anybody know how to make this warning go away? Thanks, Scott |
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Margins warning when printing
You can center it vertically via the FilePage SetupLayout menu item.
-- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Scott Meyers" wrote in message ... I've specified a custom page size for my document that is smaller that the US Letter paper I actually have in my printer. Each time I print the document, I get the warning, "The margins of section 1 are outside the printable area of the page." The document actually prints fine on US Letter paper, though I'd prefer it to be vertically centered on the page. (It's already centered horizontally.) Googling for this issue has failed to yield a fix, including these two MS KB articles: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q291336/ http://support.microsoft.com/kb/224061/ I get the same warning when I print to PDF instead of printing to a real printer. I'm using Word 2002. Does anybody know how to make this warning go away? Thanks, Scott |
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Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote:
You can center it vertically via the FilePage SetupLayout menu item. This does not appear to have any effect. The page image continues to come out near the top of my US Letter paper. Scott |
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Margins warning when printing
If you are printing to letter size paper, why are you specifying a different
size? The vertical alignment is probably be set according to your specified paper size, not the actual paper size. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Scott Meyers" wrote in message ... Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote: You can center it vertically via the FilePage SetupLayout menu item. This does not appear to have any effect. The page image continues to come out near the top of my US Letter paper. Scott |
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Margins warning when printing
Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote:
If you are printing to letter size paper, why are you specifying a different size? I'm writing a book, and its paper size will be smaller than US Letter, but US Letter paper is all I have for my printer. Scott |
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I think you should be leaving the paper size as letter size and set margins
as appropriate to achieve the desired print area on the page. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Scott Meyers" wrote in message ... Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote: If you are printing to letter size paper, why are you specifying a different size? I'm writing a book, and its paper size will be smaller than US Letter, but US Letter paper is all I have for my printer. Scott |
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Scott Meyers wrote:
Doug Robbins - Word MVP wrote: If you are printing to letter size paper, why are you specifying a different size? I'm writing a book, and its paper size will be smaller than US Letter, but US Letter paper is all I have for my printer. Scott Scott, unless you are self-publishing, the size of the book pages is not important at the creation stage; the publisher's designer will determine that. If you are sending the book to a publisher you will need to type in a clear largish (say 12 point) typeface, with double line spacing and pretty wide margins, A4 size paper (at least it's A4 in Aust. Suzanne will confirm the US size). The acquistions editor expects your manuscript in that form (hardcopy and computer file), and that is how the editor will work with it. After that, the designer copes with the transition to the finished page size (which is rarely A4). You first time you'll become aware of the finished page size is probably when (if) you get pages to proofread. |
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Scott Meyers wrote:
For my previous books, I've prepared camera-ready copy for the publisher... Sorry Scott. I made the faulty assumption that were purely a writer, in which case my post holds. You are obviously much more directly involved with the publishing process if you supply camera-ready copy. My instinct is that for that Word may not be the best platform. There are some very good publishing packages out there, designed specically for the technical process of publication. You can import Word documents into them, and they concenmtrate on such things as image placement, text flow, margins, running heads and foots and pagination, many of which Word can do, but not as well I think. When I was briefly involved at that level, I used Adobe Pagemaker, but that was years ago. It may or may not have a good reputation now. No doubt others who have it will comment. |
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Print Layout with the window zoomed to your liking would probably be more
appropriate. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Scott Meyers" wrote in message ... wrote: Scott Meyers wrote: For my previous books, I've prepared camera-ready copy for the publisher... Sorry Scott. I made the faulty assumption that were purely a writer, in Thanks for taking the time to post. I'm new to Word (hence my use of this newsgroup), and I'm grateful to anybody who takes the time to try to help us newbies. Anyway, on reflection, I think I may try changing the page size back to US Letter, setting the margins the way I want them, then doing most of my editing in web mode. That should make the printing warning go away, and it should let me edit using a relatively narrow window, too. Scott |
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