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Margin frustrations!
Hello
I have an awkward margin problem in Word 2000 and wondered if anyone would be able to provide me with a Web link or advice about resolving it. I have messed about with the usual File | Page setup options and also tried to move the actual margins with the mouse pointer in an open document - to no avail. The problem I am having is that at the end of the page in a (30-page) Word document, sometimes the text goes off-page. This seems to occur with the final paragraph on a page. When I highlight the text and position it correctly (an inch from both right and left borders, for example), it then displaces the text on the following page so that it, instead, is out of position. And so it goes on. Which is the easiest way of resolving this, please? |
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Margin frustrations!
How are you moving text around? Do you have point and type enabled? (If so,
turn it off!) Normally one does not select text and position its borders, the borders are set in the page margins and the paragraph indents. Click on the pilcrow on your formatting toolbar (reveal non-printing characters, looks like a backward's P). My guess is that your document is going to be full of weird formatting, directly applied. If you plan on using Word much, take some time to explore how to format documents through styles. If you routinely work with 30-page documents, you probably also want to explore sections and tables of contents. http://addbalance.com/usersguide/basic_formatting.htm http://addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm http://addbalance.com/usersguide/sections.htm http://addbalance.com/usersguide/complex_documents.htm To address your immediate concern, try selecting the problem text and with it selected press Ctrl-Q and Ctrl-Spacebar. Then press an arrow key so you don't inintentionally delete your selected text while you look it over. This will reset your directly-applied formatting to that of the underlying paragraph style. If this makes things worse, press Ctrl-Z to undo. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "SteveH" wrote in message ... Hello I have an awkward margin problem in Word 2000 and wondered if anyone would be able to provide me with a Web link or advice about resolving it. I have messed about with the usual File | Page setup options and also tried to move the actual margins with the mouse pointer in an open document - to no avail. The problem I am having is that at the end of the page in a (30-page) Word document, sometimes the text goes off-page. This seems to occur with the final paragraph on a page. When I highlight the text and position it correctly (an inch from both right and left borders, for example), it then displaces the text on the following page so that it, instead, is out of position. And so it goes on. Which is the easiest way of resolving this, please? |
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