Ok found out what the cause was: I was inserting an object that was in
landscape. I was able to 'page setup' the long portrait doc but when I
added that object unable to 'page setup'. Thanks for the info.

"ted medin" wrote in message
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Have a template with one line centered: sometext & a single small bookmark
tried to make the margins larger & got:settings u chose for L & R margins,
col spacing or paragraph indent are too large for the page width in some
sections.