[Resident Lawyer Techno-Nerd]

My normal.dot is set to have 1" margins all round. Can an autotext entry
consisting of a full page label set with non-standard margins of .5 top, .3
left and right, and .0 bottom, be set up to over-ride my standard normal.dot
margins of 1" when I execute the autotext entry?

[Jay Freedman]

On Thu, 24 May 2007 08:01:01 -0700, Resident Lawyer Techno-Nerd
Resident Lawyer wrote:

My normal.dot is set to have 1" margins all round. Can an autotext entry
consisting of a full page label set with non-standard margins of .5 top, .3
left and right, and .0 bottom, be set up to over-ride my standard normal.dot
margins of 1" when I execute the autotext entry?

You would be better served to create a new template (.dot file) with
your page setup as desired. This is done by choosing the "Word
Template" item in the "Save as type" dropdown of the Save As dialog.
Then select that template in the File New dialog instead of using
Normal.dot to create these documents.

If you still want to pursue the AutoText route, you need to know that
page margins are a property of the section, which stores its
properties in the section break at the end of the section.

Insert a section break at the end of your page, and include the
section break when you select the material to be the content of the
AutoText entry.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
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