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margins won't change
My original document had 2" margins on the top and bottom. Now I need to
change them to 1" margins. When I use the usual procedure to change margins, nothing changes. A 2" margin remains (above and below the header and footer that is on the pages), even though the page setup reads 1". I have tried highlighting the entire document and then clicked on applying the 1" margin to selected text. I have tried copying the entire document into a newly opened blank word file. Neither strategy has worked. Any suggestions? |
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I don't know if this will fix your problem but I tried using margins in Word
2000 right now. Open a document then select File then Page Layout. Enter the margins. Make sure it says apply to whole document then click OK. Let me know what happens. Kaja S. "Frustrated in Fargo" wrote: My original document had 2" margins on the top and bottom. Now I need to change them to 1" margins. When I use the usual procedure to change margins, nothing changes. A 2" margin remains (above and below the header and footer that is on the pages), even though the page setup reads 1". I have tried highlighting the entire document and then clicked on applying the 1" margin to selected text. I have tried copying the entire document into a newly opened blank word file. Neither strategy has worked. Any suggestions? |
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"Kaja" wrote: I don't know if this will fix your problem but I tried using margins in Word 2000 right now. Open a document then select File then Page Layout. Enter the margins. Make sure it says apply to whole document then click OK. Let me know what happens. Kaja S. Thanks for trying, Kaja - there is no Page Layout tab on the 2004 version (that I can see) - I think it's been replaced by the Page Set Up tab, which then probably has the same features as yours in which you enter the margins, click to apply to the whole document, etc. This is what I've been doing but it just doesn't work. I think something that I did when I set up this very large document (including headers and footers, and various sections to separate chapters) must be affecting the margins but I can't figure out what to do about it. "Frustrated in Fargo" wrote: My original document had 2" margins on the top and bottom. Now I need to change them to 1" margins. When I use the usual procedure to change margins, nothing changes. A 2" margin remains (above and below the header and footer that is on the pages), even though the page setup reads 1". I have tried highlighting the entire document and then clicked on applying the 1" margin to selected text. I have tried copying the entire document into a newly opened blank word file. Neither strategy has worked. Any suggestions? |
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I had one more idea. Word 2004 may be different than my Word 2000 but try
this. Click on help and enter "change margins" into the search field. It may bring up a resolution. Hope it works. Kaja "Frustrated in Fargo" wrote: "Kaja" wrote: I don't know if this will fix your problem but I tried using margins in Word 2000 right now. Open a document then select File then Page Layout. Enter the margins. Make sure it says apply to whole document then click OK. Let me know what happens. Kaja S. Thanks for trying, Kaja - there is no Page Layout tab on the 2004 version (that I can see) - I think it's been replaced by the Page Set Up tab, which then probably has the same features as yours in which you enter the margins, click to apply to the whole document, etc. This is what I've been doing but it just doesn't work. I think something that I did when I set up this very large document (including headers and footers, and various sections to separate chapters) must be affecting the margins but I can't figure out what to do about it. "Frustrated in Fargo" wrote: My original document had 2" margins on the top and bottom. Now I need to change them to 1" margins. When I use the usual procedure to change margins, nothing changes. A 2" margin remains (above and below the header and footer that is on the pages), even though the page setup reads 1". I have tried highlighting the entire document and then clicked on applying the 1" margin to selected text. I have tried copying the entire document into a newly opened blank word file. Neither strategy has worked. Any suggestions? |
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Thanks for this idea. It led me to take a closer look at how the header and
footer could be influencing the problem. Here is what I discovered through the office assistance when a phrase something like "change the position of the header or footer" came up. Once I clicked on a header and had the header/footer menu bar come up, I then clicked on a button there for "page set up." There I could see that the horizontal position of the header was at 2.25" rather than 1". I was able to reset that, but it wouldn't apply the change to the whole document - but I was able to reset the whole document by going to the individual headers and footers in each section and changing the measurements there. That worked! Thanks for you setting me in the right direction ! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Make sure that your header and footer margins are normal (0.5") and that there is no extra space (Spacing Before/After, extra empty paragraphs) in the header or footer. -- 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. "Frustrated in Fargo" Frustrated in wrote in message ... My original document had 2" margins on the top and bottom. Now I need to change them to 1" margins. When I use the usual procedure to change margins, nothing changes. A 2" margin remains (above and below the header and footer that is on the pages), even though the page setup reads 1". I have tried highlighting the entire document and then clicked on applying the 1" margin to selected text. I have tried copying the entire document into a newly opened blank word file. Neither strategy has worked. Any suggestions? |
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