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Margin outside printable area
Using Word 2002.
I am receiving the following error message on many of the documents I have composed: "The margins of section 1 are set outside the printable area of the page. Do you want to continue?" When printed, the left margin of 8.5" x 11" paper is 2.5". The margin that is set in the page layout dialogue box is 1.25". The document text is truncated on the right side of the paper. To the best of my ability, I cannot see that a section is defined anywhere in the documents. One document is a mere table with a page header defined. I have turned on the show/hide indicator. No section breaks are visible. How do I correct these situations? |
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Documents with no section breaks are still Section 1. Go to Format |
Columns, make sure that "Whole document" is selected for "Apply to," and click on the One preset picture (even if it appears to be already selected), then OK. This should fix the problem. -- 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. "PatJennings" wrote in message ... Using Word 2002. I am receiving the following error message on many of the documents I have composed: "The margins of section 1 are set outside the printable area of the page. Do you want to continue?" When printed, the left margin of 8.5" x 11" paper is 2.5". The margin that is set in the page layout dialogue box is 1.25". The document text is truncated on the right side of the paper. To the best of my ability, I cannot see that a section is defined anywhere in the documents. One document is a mere table with a page header defined. I have turned on the show/hide indicator. No section breaks are visible. How do I correct these situations? |
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Thank you. It worked like a charm!.
Pat "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Documents with no section breaks are still Section 1. Go to Format | Columns, make sure that "Whole document" is selected for "Apply to," and click on the One preset picture (even if it appears to be already selected), then OK. This should fix the problem. -- 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. "PatJennings" wrote in message ... Using Word 2002. I am receiving the following error message on many of the documents I have composed: "The margins of section 1 are set outside the printable area of the page. Do you want to continue?" When printed, the left margin of 8.5" x 11" paper is 2.5". The margin that is set in the page layout dialogue box is 1.25". The document text is truncated on the right side of the paper. To the best of my ability, I cannot see that a section is defined anywhere in the documents. One document is a mere table with a page header defined. I have turned on the show/hide indicator. No section breaks are visible. How do I correct these situations? |
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Glad to have helped. The problem arises from (ever) using the Columns button
on the Standard toolbar in some earlier versions, which doesn't check the "Equal column width" box in the Columns dialog (that has been corrected in later versions). The result is that you can get a single column whose size won't adjust to the page size or two columns of which the first is margin width or some other problem that Word can't figure out how to deal with. -- 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. "PatJennings" wrote in message ... Thank you. It worked like a charm!. Pat "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Documents with no section breaks are still Section 1. Go to Format | Columns, make sure that "Whole document" is selected for "Apply to," and click on the One preset picture (even if it appears to be already selected), then OK. This should fix the problem. -- 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. "PatJennings" wrote in message ... Using Word 2002. I am receiving the following error message on many of the documents I have composed: "The margins of section 1 are set outside the printable area of the page. Do you want to continue?" When printed, the left margin of 8.5" x 11" paper is 2.5". The margin that is set in the page layout dialogue box is 1.25". The document text is truncated on the right side of the pape r. |
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Dear Suzanne,
This problem has raised its head again. This time I know that the document I am creating is by importing a table from an external program which is not a Microsoft program. Likewise, the other problems which I previously identified, and were corrected through your guidance were tables that I copied from web-pages. Again, I was able to correct those. However, after trying many times to implement your solution, I am left with it not correcting. And again, when I trice to fix it by defining page margins, error message to use the "fix it now" set the left margin at 2.75". Doing a print preview and a print to paper showed a left-truncated table. That is, the first column and part of the second column of the table did not print. Do you have any ideas or recommendations for me? Sincerely, Pat "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Glad to have helped. The problem arises from (ever) using the Columns button on the Standard toolbar in some earlier versions, which doesn't check the "Equal column width" box in the Columns dialog (that has been corrected in later versions). The result is that you can get a single column whose size won't adjust to the page size or two columns of which the first is margin width or some other problem that Word can't figure out how to deal with. -- 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. "PatJennings" wrote in message ... Thank you. It worked like a charm!. Pat "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Documents with no section breaks are still Section 1. Go to Format | Columns, make sure that "Whole document" is selected for "Apply to," and click on the One preset picture (even if it appears to be already selected), then OK. This should fix the problem. -- 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. "PatJennings" wrote in message ... Using Word 2002. I am receiving the following error message on many of the documents I have composed: "The margins of section 1 are set outside the printable area of the page. Do you want to continue?" When printed, the left margin of 8.5" x 11" paper is 2.5". The margin that is set in the page layout dialogue box is 1.25". The document text is truncated on the right side of the pape r. To the best of my ability, I cannot see that a section is defined anywhere in the documents. One document is a mere table with a page header defined. I have turned on the show/hide indicator. No section breaks are visible. How do I correct these situations? |
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If the Columns solution doesn't work, I'm out of ideas.
-- 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. "PatJennings" wrote in message ... Dear Suzanne, This problem has raised its head again. This time I know that the document I am creating is by importing a table from an external program which is not a Microsoft program. Likewise, the other problems which I previously identified, and were corrected through your guidance were tables that I copied from web-pages. Again, I was able to correct those. However, after trying many times to implement your solution, I am left with it not correcting. And again, when I trice to fix it by defining page margins, error message to use the "fix it now" set the left margin at 2.75". Doing a print preview and a print to paper showed a left-truncated table. That is, the first column and part of the second column of the table did not print. Do you have any ideas or recommendations for me? Sincerely, Pat "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Glad to have helped. The problem arises from (ever) using the Columns button on the Standard toolbar in some earlier versions, which doesn't check the "Equal column width" box in the Columns dialog (that has been corrected in later versions). The result is that you can get a single column whose size won't adjust to the page size or two columns of which the first is margin width or some other problem that Word can't figure out how to deal with. -- 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. "PatJennings" wrote in message ... Thank you. It worked like a charm!. Pat "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Documents with no section breaks are still Section 1. Go to Format | Columns, make sure that "Whole document" is selected for "Apply to," and click on the One preset picture (even if it appears to be already selected), then OK. This should fix the problem. -- 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. "PatJennings" wrote in message ... Using Word 2002. I am receiving the following error message on many of the documents I have composed: "The margins of section 1 are set outside the printable area of the page. Do you want to continue?" When printed, the left margin of 8.5" x 11" paper is 2.5". The margin that is set in the page layout dialogue box is 1.25". The document text is truncated on the right side of the pape r. To the best of my ability, I cannot see that a section is defined anywhere in the documents. One document is a mere table with a page header defined. I have turned on the show/hide indicator. No section breaks are visible. How do I correct these situations? |
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This problem has now cropped up in many documents containing tables. For
example, I had two documents created from Word templates. The templates are a Fax Transmittal Sheet (cover letter) and a Resume (my personal resume). Previously, both documents printed correctly. Over the past few weeks, I have altered both documents, modifying content, not format and saving them to newly named files. On screen, all documents - both original and modified, appear correctly, However, when printing, warnings appear indicating that the margins are set outside printable space (don't recall whatever the actual warning states). Either choosing to ignore or fix the error does not help. The printed documents have the increased left side margin, approx. 2.5" wide and the print is truncated on the right side. I copied the body text from the fax document, excluding the data in the table at top and pasted it to a notepad document. I then closed Word and rebooted the computer. Then I restarted, opened Word and opened the Notepad document. I added the data from the top table, i.e., Sent to, Sent from, etc. to the document without formatting as a table. Just tabs, that sort of thing. Printing was fine. I cannot fix the important documents (fax and resume) or any of their derivatives to print correctly. Nor can I seem to be able to "start over" and I desperately need to find a solution. Could this possibly be the results of a virus or something like that. IF so, how do I determine and correct. I am using Windows Live OneCare as my system virus protection program. Sincerely, Pat "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... If the Columns solution doesn't work, I'm out of ideas. -- 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. "PatJennings" wrote in message ... Dear Suzanne, This problem has raised its head again. This time I know that the document I am creating is by importing a table from an external program which is not a Microsoft program. Likewise, the other problems which I previously identified, and were corrected through your guidance were tables that I copied from web-pages. Again, I was able to correct those. However, after trying many times to implement your solution, I am left with it not correcting. And again, when I trice to fix it by defining page margins, error message to use the "fix it now" set the left margin at 2.75". Doing a print preview and a print to paper showed a left-truncated table. That is, the first column and part of the second column of the table did not print. Do you have any ideas or recommendations for me? Sincerely, Pat "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Glad to have helped. The problem arises from (ever) using the Columns button on the Standard toolbar in some earlier versions, which doesn't check the "Equal column width" box in the Columns dialog (that has been corrected in later versions). The result is that you can get a single column whose size won't adjust to the page size or two columns of which the first is margin width or some other problem that Word can't figure out how to deal with. -- 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. "PatJennings" wrote in message ... Thank you. It worked like a charm!. Pat "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Documents with no section breaks are still Section 1. Go to Format | Columns, make sure that "Whole document" is selected for "Apply to," and click on the One preset picture (even if it appears to be already selected), then OK. This should fix the problem. -- 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. "PatJennings" wrote in message ... Using Word 2002. I am receiving the following error message on many of the documents I have composed: "The margins of section 1 are set outside the printable area of the page. Do you want to continue?" When printed, the left margin of 8.5" x 11" paper is 2.5". The margin that is set in the page layout dialogue box is 1.25". The document text is truncated on the right side of the pape r. To the best of my ability, I cannot see that a section is defined anywhere in the documents. One document is a mere table with a page header defined. I have turned on the show/hide indicator. No section breaks are visible. How do I correct these situations? |
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