Hello

Is there a way to take a legal sized document and size it down permantly to
a letter sized document without loosing anything.

I have a 39 page legal size document that I am trying to size down to letter
size. Someone else copied and pasted the document into a new letter size but
as I am checking the document, it has lost some of the formatting and lost
information also.

Any and all suggestions are welcome
MJ

Still Me

I have set up a new document made sure that all the margins are set to the
orginal settings, go into page setup and set it to Letter size once I paste
in the orginal document it has gone back to Legal size and another time it
doubled the amount of pages.

Can you go in and go in and globably bring all the fonts down 2 points?

MJ

Your printer may have a "Scaling" option that may do this for
you. Leave the document set up as legal size, and click on File
| Print | Properties | Scale to paper size: Letter | OK.

MJ wrote:

Hello

Is there a way to take a legal sized document and size it down permantly to
a letter sized document without loosing anything.

I have a 39 page legal size document that I am trying to size down to letter
size. Someone else copied and pasted the document into a new letter size but
as I am checking the document, it has lost some of the formatting and lost
information also.

Any and all suggestions are welcome
MJ

Press Ctrl+A to select all of the text, and press Ctrl+[ to
reduce the font size of the selection by one point (press twice
to reduce by two points, etc.) or press Ctrl+] to increase the
font size of the selection by one point.

MJ wrote:


Still Me

I have set up a new document made sure that all the margins are set to the
orginal settings, go into page setup and set it to Letter size once I paste
in the orginal document it has gone back to Legal size and another time it
doubled the amount of pages.

Can you go in and go in and globably bring all the fonts down 2 points?

MJ

In Word 2000 or above, in the Print dialog, choose "Scale to paper size:
Letter."

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"MJ" wrote in message
...
Hello

Is there a way to take a legal sized document and size it down permantly
to
a letter sized document without loosing anything.

I have a 39 page legal size document that I am trying to size down to
letter
size. Someone else copied and pasted the document into a new letter size
but
as I am checking the document, it has lost some of the formatting and lost
information also.

Any and all suggestions are welcome
MJ

THANK YOU !!
It worked and saved me many hours of work.
MJ

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:

Press Ctrl+A to select all of the text, and press Ctrl+[ to
reduce the font size of the selection by one point (press twice
to reduce by two points, etc.) or press Ctrl+] to increase the
font size of the selection by one point.

That worked only if I printed the document. This needs to be permantly scaled
down to letter size and keep the formating etc.

Is there a way to permantly size it down?

MJ

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

In Word 2000 or above, in the Print dialog, choose "Scale to paper size:
Letter."

--
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.

Sorry, I missed the "permanently" part. You could try "Shrink to Fit" after
changing the page size. But see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/FitCopy.htm for other tricks.

--
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.

"MJ" wrote in message
...
That worked only if I printed the document. This needs to be permantly
scaled
down to letter size and keep the formating etc.

Is there a way to permantly size it down?

MJ

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

In Word 2000 or above, in the Print dialog, choose "Scale to paper size:
Letter."

--
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.