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Margins in landscape layout
I have a new problem with Word 2003, which I have been using successfully for
several years. When I change to "landscape" mode the text and other content truncate at 4 inches from the right margin, no matter what I set the left and right margins! It is as if some formatting option has been reset that I cannot reverse. Same problem if I start a new blank document, change to Landscape orientation and start typing - right margin truncates. This is true even though the ruler bar at the top shows the margin on the right as I set it (1", 1/2 ", etc) and the little arrow indicating the text margin is sitting at the page margin. If I open a file created on another computer, I do not have this problem. I.e., I can take a Word document in portrait layout from another source, change it to landscape layout and it flows to the right margin. Any ideas what format option could have gotten changed on my system that might truncate the right margin? |
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Margins in landscape layout
Do you get an error message if you try to change the margins? If so, go to
Format | Columns, click on the preset picture for One, then OK. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Natalie" wrote in message ... I have a new problem with Word 2003, which I have been using successfully for several years. When I change to "landscape" mode the text and other content truncate at 4 inches from the right margin, no matter what I set the left and right margins! It is as if some formatting option has been reset that I cannot reverse. Same problem if I start a new blank document, change to Landscape orientation and start typing - right margin truncates. This is true even though the ruler bar at the top shows the margin on the right as I set it (1", 1/2 ", etc) and the little arrow indicating the text margin is sitting at the page margin. If I open a file created on another computer, I do not have this problem. I.e., I can take a Word document in portrait layout from another source, change it to landscape layout and it flows to the right margin. Any ideas what format option could have gotten changed on my system that might truncate the right margin? |
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Margins in landscape layout
Thank you very much - that did the trick! somehow a default must have gotten
set to 2 columns. I did not get the error message you described, but resetting the column setting to "one" seems to be the solution! Again, many thanks. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Do you get an error message if you try to change the margins? If so, go to Format | Columns, click on the preset picture for One, then OK. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Natalie" wrote in message ... I have a new problem with Word 2003, which I have been using successfully for several years. When I change to "landscape" mode the text and other content truncate at 4 inches from the right margin, no matter what I set the left and right margins! It is as if some formatting option has been reset that I cannot reverse. Same problem if I start a new blank document, change to Landscape orientation and start typing - right margin truncates. This is true even though the ruler bar at the top shows the margin on the right as I set it (1", 1/2 ", etc) and the little arrow indicating the text margin is sitting at the page margin. If I open a file created on another computer, I do not have this problem. I.e., I can take a Word document in portrait layout from another source, change it to landscape layout and it flows to the right margin. Any ideas what format option could have gotten changed on my system that might truncate the right margin? |
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Margins in landscape layout
It isn't that the columns are really set to two, just that the "Equal column
width" box isn't checked, and Word gets confused about the column/page width. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Natalie" wrote in message ... Thank you very much - that did the trick! somehow a default must have gotten set to 2 columns. I did not get the error message you described, but resetting the column setting to "one" seems to be the solution! Again, many thanks. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Do you get an error message if you try to change the margins? If so, go to Format | Columns, click on the preset picture for One, then OK. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA "Natalie" wrote in message ... I have a new problem with Word 2003, which I have been using successfully for several years. When I change to "landscape" mode the text and other content truncate at 4 inches from the right margin, no matter what I set the left and right margins! It is as if some formatting option has been reset that I cannot reverse. Same problem if I start a new blank document, change to Landscape orientation and start typing - right margin truncates. This is true even though the ruler bar at the top shows the margin on the right as I set it (1", 1/2 ", etc) and the little arrow indicating the text margin is sitting at the page margin. If I open a file created on another computer, I do not have this problem. I.e., I can take a Word document in portrait layout from another source, change it to landscape layout and it flows to the right margin. Any ideas what format option could have gotten changed on my system that might truncate the right margin? |
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