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page size 8.5x36
I want to set up a custom page size in Word for an 8.5" x 36" document. Word
2002 will only let me go up to 22" length. How do I get it to let me go to 36"? My goal is to create the document in Word and then make a pdf using Acrobat. I'm using MS Word 2002 on Windows XP Home. Thanks - Barry |
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I have the exact same problem. I'm also using Word 2002 on XP. Unfortunately
the answer for MS Word is that it can't do it. I even downloaded a device driver for a plotter so that I could fool it into generating Postscript. However, according to Graham Mayor in the post just below this, ain't no way no how. We need a publishing program. "meadows" wrote: I want to set up a custom page size in Word for an 8.5" x 36" document. Word 2002 will only let me go up to 22" length. How do I get it to let me go to 36"? My goal is to create the document in Word and then make a pdf using Acrobat. I'm using MS Word 2002 on Windows XP Home. Thanks - Barry |
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I've read something about using Windows Forms to fool Word into using a
larger size, but I was hoping someone had tried it before I give it a go. The printer driver I plan on using is Adobe PDF that shows up once Acrobat is installed. Acrobat can handle 200x200. Unfortunately, I need to create the document with Word because it's all I have. - Barry "RealCav" wrote: I have the exact same problem. I'm also using Word 2002 on XP. Unfortunately the answer for MS Word is that it can't do it. I even downloaded a device driver for a plotter so that I could fool it into generating Postscript. However, according to Graham Mayor in the post just below this, ain't no way no how. We need a publishing program. "meadows" wrote: I want to set up a custom page size in Word for an 8.5" x 36" document. Word 2002 will only let me go up to 22" length. How do I get it to let me go to 36"? My goal is to create the document in Word and then make a pdf using Acrobat. I'm using MS Word 2002 on Windows XP Home. Thanks - Barry |
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The absolute limit for paper height and width in Word is 22".
-- 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. "meadows" wrote in message ... I've read something about using Windows Forms to fool Word into using a larger size, but I was hoping someone had tried it before I give it a go. The printer driver I plan on using is Adobe PDF that shows up once Acrobat is installed. Acrobat can handle 200x200. Unfortunately, I need to create the document with Word because it's all I have. - Barry "RealCav" wrote: I have the exact same problem. I'm also using Word 2002 on XP. Unfortunately the answer for MS Word is that it can't do it. I even downloaded a device driver for a plotter so that I could fool it into generating Postscript. However, according to Graham Mayor in the post just below this, ain't no way no how. We need a publishing program. "meadows" wrote: I want to set up a custom page size in Word for an 8.5" x 36" document. Word 2002 will only let me go up to 22" length. How do I get it to let me go to 36"? My goal is to create the document in Word and then make a pdf using Acrobat. I'm using MS Word 2002 on Windows XP Home. Thanks - Barry |
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Of course, limitations like this just point out how much the core code of
Word is in need of an overhaul. Probably some of this stuff hasn't been touched in a dozen years. The technical reason for the limitation is that Word positions everything on the page in terms of "twips" (1 twip = 1/20 point = 1/1440 inch) from the top left corner. Then 22 inches = 31680 twips. This number was chosen because it fits in a signed integer variable, which is 15 bits of a 16-bit value (maximum value 32768; the 16th bit is used for the sign). This is unfortunate, since the "natural" size of integers in Windows on Intel and AMD processors has been 32 bits for quite a while and is now heading into 64-bit territory. The processor actually has to do extra work to translate between these variable sizes. However, I can understand Microsoft's reluctance to rewrite the core code. The downside is the likelihood of introducing new bugs, and the upside is very limited -- how many more copies of Office would sell because you could print bigger pages? The business case for it just isn't there. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: The absolute limit for paper height and width in Word is 22". "meadows" wrote in message ... I've read something about using Windows Forms to fool Word into using a larger size, but I was hoping someone had tried it before I give it a go. The printer driver I plan on using is Adobe PDF that shows up once Acrobat is installed. Acrobat can handle 200x200. Unfortunately, I need to create the document with Word because it's all I have. - Barry "RealCav" wrote: I have the exact same problem. I'm also using Word 2002 on XP. Unfortunately the answer for MS Word is that it can't do it. I even downloaded a device driver for a plotter so that I could fool it into generating Postscript. However, according to Graham Mayor in the post just below this, ain't no way no how. We need a publishing program. "meadows" wrote: I want to set up a custom page size in Word for an 8.5" x 36" document. Word 2002 will only let me go up to 22" length. How do I get it to let me go to 36"? My goal is to create the document in Word and then make a pdf using Acrobat. I'm using MS Word 2002 on Windows XP Home. Thanks - Barry |
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