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How do I keep custom page size from changing automatically?
I'm trying to set my paper size to custom 7 x 10. I then go to the layout tab
and select my settings there. When I go back to the other tabs to recheck everything, the paper size has automatically changed from the custom 7 x 10 setting I chose to B5 7.17 x 10.12. Why is it doing this? Someone please help! I specifically need 7 x 10 for my publisher's book specifications. I've never had this problem before; it just started doing this. Thanks for any help you can give! |
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How do I keep custom page size from changing automatically?
Forgot to mention this is for Microsoft Word 2003
"Mattajang" wrote: I'm trying to set my paper size to custom 7 x 10. I then go to the layout tab and select my settings there. When I go back to the other tabs to recheck everything, the paper size has automatically changed from the custom 7 x 10 setting I chose to B5 7.17 x 10.12. Why is it doing this? Someone please help! I specifically need 7 x 10 for my publisher's book specifications. I've never had this problem before; it just started doing this. Thanks for any help you can give! |
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How do I keep custom page size from changing automatically?
Stop spinning your wheels. Whenever you try to set a custom size that is
very close to one of the built-in sizes (and these are provided by your printer driver, BTW, not Word), Word will keep defaulting back to the built-in size. Your only recourse is to adjust margins accordingly. But--and this is a very big but--it is very unlikely that your publisher really wants you to set the book up for 7" x 10" paper. He wants you to set up for this page size, which is quite a different thing. Envision your 7" x 10" page, including the desired margins, and then set margins on Letter paper that will give you the required size text block (including header and footer, if any). You can, if you want, print an outline (like a page border) or crop marks to indicate the page placement (see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/CropMarks.htm). Your publisher should be able to work with this. At least, that's the way I do it when I typeset a 6x9 book. I send the book to the commercial printer as a press-quality PDF, and he handles the imposition from there. -- 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. "Mattajang" wrote in message ... Forgot to mention this is for Microsoft Word 2003 "Mattajang" wrote: I'm trying to set my paper size to custom 7 x 10. I then go to the layout tab and select my settings there. When I go back to the other tabs to recheck everything, the paper size has automatically changed from the custom 7 x 10 setting I chose to B5 7.17 x 10.12. Why is it doing this? Someone please help! I specifically need 7 x 10 for my publisher's book specifications. I've never had this problem before; it just started doing this. Thanks for any help you can give! |
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How do I keep custom page size from changing automatically?
You can only setup page sizes that the current printer driver will allow.
Most will default to the nearest standard size, which is what you are experiencing. Accept the next larger standard size than your intended page size and make up the difference with the margins, or use the printer driver you had setup before that allowed the custom size. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Mattajang wrote: I'm trying to set my paper size to custom 7 x 10. I then go to the layout tab and select my settings there. When I go back to the other tabs to recheck everything, the paper size has automatically changed from the custom 7 x 10 setting I chose to B5 7.17 x 10.12. Why is it doing this? Someone please help! I specifically need 7 x 10 for my publisher's book specifications. I've never had this problem before; it just started doing this. Thanks for any help you can give! |
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How do I keep custom page size from changing automatically?
Do you know what size margins I need to use to set up for 7 x 10 rather than
6 x 9? I'm not too good at this. Thanks. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Stop spinning your wheels. Whenever you try to set a custom size that is very close to one of the built-in sizes (and these are provided by your printer driver, BTW, not Word), Word will keep defaulting back to the built-in size. Your only recourse is to adjust margins accordingly. But--and this is a very big but--it is very unlikely that your publisher really wants you to set the book up for 7" x 10" paper. He wants you to set up for this page size, which is quite a different thing. Envision your 7" x 10" page, including the desired margins, and then set margins on Letter paper that will give you the required size text block (including header and footer, if any). You can, if you want, print an outline (like a page border) or crop marks to indicate the page placement (see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/CropMarks.htm). Your publisher should be able to work with this. At least, that's the way I do it when I typeset a 6x9 book. I send the book to the commercial printer as a press-quality PDF, and he handles the imposition from there. -- 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. "Mattajang" wrote in message ... Forgot to mention this is for Microsoft Word 2003 "Mattajang" wrote: I'm trying to set my paper size to custom 7 x 10. I then go to the layout tab and select my settings there. When I go back to the other tabs to recheck everything, the paper size has automatically changed from the custom 7 x 10 setting I chose to B5 7.17 x 10.12. Why is it doing this? Someone please help! I specifically need 7 x 10 for my publisher's book specifications. I've never had this problem before; it just started doing this. Thanks for any help you can give! |
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How do I keep custom page size from changing automatically?
How do I change back to the former printer driver? I deleted the printer I
added and set my former printer as the default printer, but the problem is still occurring; it automatically switches to B5 7.17 x 10.12. "Graham Mayor" wrote: You can only setup page sizes that the current printer driver will allow. Most will default to the nearest standard size, which is what you are experiencing. Accept the next larger standard size than your intended page size and make up the difference with the margins, or use the printer driver you had setup before that allowed the custom size. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Mattajang wrote: I'm trying to set my paper size to custom 7 x 10. I then go to the layout tab and select my settings there. When I go back to the other tabs to recheck everything, the paper size has automatically changed from the custom 7 x 10 setting I chose to B5 7.17 x 10.12. Why is it doing this? Someone please help! I specifically need 7 x 10 for my publisher's book specifications. I've never had this problem before; it just started doing this. Thanks for any help you can give! |
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How do I keep custom page size from changing automatically?
Take a piece of paper 7" x 10" and pin it to the top left of a piece of
paper size A4 or US Letter.. Measure the distances between the edges of the two pieces of paper and add the amounts to the bottom and right margins that you intended for the 7 x 10 paper. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Mattajang wrote: Do you know what size margins I need to use to set up for 7 x 10 rather than 6 x 9? I'm not too good at this. Thanks. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Stop spinning your wheels. Whenever you try to set a custom size that is very close to one of the built-in sizes (and these are provided by your printer driver, BTW, not Word), Word will keep defaulting back to the built-in size. Your only recourse is to adjust margins accordingly. But--and this is a very big but--it is very unlikely that your publisher really wants you to set the book up for 7" x 10" paper. He wants you to set up for this page size, which is quite a different thing. Envision your 7" x 10" page, including the desired margins, and then set margins on Letter paper that will give you the required size text block (including header and footer, if any). You can, if you want, print an outline (like a page border) or crop marks to indicate the page placement (see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/CropMarks.htm). Your publisher should be able to work with this. At least, that's the way I do it when I typeset a 6x9 book. I send the book to the commercial printer as a press-quality PDF, and he handles the imposition from there. -- 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. "Mattajang" wrote in message ... Forgot to mention this is for Microsoft Word 2003 "Mattajang" wrote: I'm trying to set my paper size to custom 7 x 10. I then go to the layout tab and select my settings there. When I go back to the other tabs to recheck everything, the paper size has automatically changed from the custom 7 x 10 setting I chose to B5 7.17 x 10.12. Why is it doing this? Someone please help! I specifically need 7 x 10 for my publisher's book specifications. I've never had this problem before; it just started doing this. Thanks for any help you can give! |
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How do I keep custom page size from changing automatically?
The problem remains the same. You can only setup page sizes that the current
printer driver will allow. Some printer drivers allow you to set up custom sizes, others don't. Work with B5 and add the extra .17 to the left and .12 to the bottom margin. If you have a PDF or a postscript printer driver as your active printer, you should be able to setup accurate custom page sizes. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Mattajang wrote: How do I change back to the former printer driver? I deleted the printer I added and set my former printer as the default printer, but the problem is still occurring; it automatically switches to B5 7.17 x 10.12. "Graham Mayor" wrote: You can only setup page sizes that the current printer driver will allow. Most will default to the nearest standard size, which is what you are experiencing. Accept the next larger standard size than your intended page size and make up the difference with the margins, or use the printer driver you had setup before that allowed the custom size. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Mattajang wrote: I'm trying to set my paper size to custom 7 x 10. I then go to the layout tab and select my settings there. When I go back to the other tabs to recheck everything, the paper size has automatically changed from the custom 7 x 10 setting I chose to B5 7.17 x 10.12. Why is it doing this? Someone please help! I specifically need 7 x 10 for my publisher's book specifications. I've never had this problem before; it just started doing this. Thanks for any help you can give! |
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How do I keep custom page size from changing automatically?
I made the 6 x 9 crop marks as well as the rectangle to visualize the page
size. When typing in the header is it supposed to appear above the horizontal crop marks? It seems to me that it would be chopped off from the body of the main text and there would be no header. When I change the size of the header/footer then the crop marks change too. Thanks for helping; I'm not too good with using Word yet. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Stop spinning your wheels. Whenever you try to set a custom size that is very close to one of the built-in sizes (and these are provided by your printer driver, BTW, not Word), Word will keep defaulting back to the built-in size. Your only recourse is to adjust margins accordingly. But--and this is a very big but--it is very unlikely that your publisher really wants you to set the book up for 7" x 10" paper. He wants you to set up for this page size, which is quite a different thing. Envision your 7" x 10" page, including the desired margins, and then set margins on Letter paper that will give you the required size text block (including header and footer, if any). You can, if you want, print an outline (like a page border) or crop marks to indicate the page placement (see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/CropMarks.htm). Your publisher should be able to work with this. At least, that's the way I do it when I typeset a 6x9 book. I send the book to the commercial printer as a press-quality PDF, and he handles the imposition from there. -- 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. "Mattajang" wrote in message ... Forgot to mention this is for Microsoft Word 2003 "Mattajang" wrote: I'm trying to set my paper size to custom 7 x 10. I then go to the layout tab and select my settings there. When I go back to the other tabs to recheck everything, the paper size has automatically changed from the custom 7 x 10 setting I chose to B5 7.17 x 10.12. Why is it doing this? Someone please help! I specifically need 7 x 10 for my publisher's book specifications. I've never had this problem before; it just started doing this. Thanks for any help you can give! |
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How do I keep custom page size from changing automatically?
You need to set the page margins such that they will constrain the text area
to the size you want for the 7" x 10" page. You then need to set the header and footer margins such that they will be at the desired position within the 7" x 10" space, that is, within the rectangle you have created. For example, suppose you want 0.75" margins on all sides of the 7" x 10" page. You must add this amount to the amount of margin required to make up the difference between 7" x 10" and 8.5" x 11": 8.5" - 7" = 1.5" 1.5"/2 = 0.75" 0.75" + 0.75" = 1.5" So your side margins would be 1.5" (you may not want them to be uniform--you may want a gutter on the inside--in which case you adjust accordingly, keeping the total equal to 3". 11" - 10" = 1" 1"/2 = 0.5" 0.5" + 0.75" = 1.25" So your top and bottom margins would be 1.25" (again, you can make them uneven provided the total is 2.5"). You then set the header margin to, say, 1", which will put it 0.25" from the top of your text area. If there is no footer, then you may want to increase the top margin to allow more space between the header and the text body and leave a smaller bottom margin. You then need to create the crop marks so that they will be *outside* the 7" x 10" space. Keep in mind that the directions in the cited article were for a 6" x 9" page, so you can't follow them exactly. -- 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. "Mattajang" wrote in message ... I made the 6 x 9 crop marks as well as the rectangle to visualize the page size. When typing in the header is it supposed to appear above the horizontal crop marks? It seems to me that it would be chopped off from the body of the main text and there would be no header. When I change the size of the header/footer then the crop marks change too. Thanks for helping; I'm not too good with using Word yet. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Stop spinning your wheels. Whenever you try to set a custom size that is very close to one of the built-in sizes (and these are provided by your printer driver, BTW, not Word), Word will keep defaulting back to the built-in size. Your only recourse is to adjust margins accordingly. But--and this is a very big but--it is very unlikely that your publisher really wants you to set the book up for 7" x 10" paper. He wants you to set up for this page size, which is quite a different thing. Envision your 7" x 10" page, including the desired margins, and then set margins on Letter paper that will give you the required size text block (including header and footer, if any). You can, if you want, print an outline (like a page border) or crop marks to indicate the page placement (see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/CropMarks.htm). Your publisher should be able to work with this. At least, that's the way I do it when I typeset a 6x9 book. I send the book to the commercial printer as a press-quality PDF, and he handles the imposition from there. -- 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. "Mattajang" wrote in message ... Forgot to mention this is for Microsoft Word 2003 "Mattajang" wrote: I'm trying to set my paper size to custom 7 x 10. I then go to the layout tab and select my settings there. When I go back to the other tabs to recheck everything, the paper size has automatically changed from the custom 7 x 10 setting I chose to B5 7.17 x 10.12. Why is it doing this? Someone please help! I specifically need 7 x 10 for my publisher's book specifications. I've never had this problem before; it just started doing this. Thanks for any help you can give! |
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How do I keep custom page size from changing automatically?
Thanks, so much!! I finally got it right! I don't know what computer dummies
would do without wonderful, helpful people like all of you! Thanks again!!! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You need to set the page margins such that they will constrain the text area to the size you want for the 7" x 10" page. You then need to set the header and footer margins such that they will be at the desired position within the 7" x 10" space, that is, within the rectangle you have created. For example, suppose you want 0.75" margins on all sides of the 7" x 10" page. You must add this amount to the amount of margin required to make up the difference between 7" x 10" and 8.5" x 11": 8.5" - 7" = 1.5" 1.5"/2 = 0.75" 0.75" + 0.75" = 1.5" So your side margins would be 1.5" (you may not want them to be uniform--you may want a gutter on the inside--in which case you adjust accordingly, keeping the total equal to 3". 11" - 10" = 1" 1"/2 = 0.5" 0.5" + 0.75" = 1.25" So your top and bottom margins would be 1.25" (again, you can make them uneven provided the total is 2.5"). You then set the header margin to, say, 1", which will put it 0.25" from the top of your text area. If there is no footer, then you may want to increase the top margin to allow more space between the header and the text body and leave a smaller bottom margin. You then need to create the crop marks so that they will be *outside* the 7" x 10" space. Keep in mind that the directions in the cited article were for a 6" x 9" page, so you can't follow them exactly. -- 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. "Mattajang" wrote in message ... I made the 6 x 9 crop marks as well as the rectangle to visualize the page size. When typing in the header is it supposed to appear above the horizontal crop marks? It seems to me that it would be chopped off from the body of the main text and there would be no header. When I change the size of the header/footer then the crop marks change too. Thanks for helping; I'm not too good with using Word yet. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Stop spinning your wheels. Whenever you try to set a custom size that is very close to one of the built-in sizes (and these are provided by your printer driver, BTW, not Word), Word will keep defaulting back to the built-in size. Your only recourse is to adjust margins accordingly. But--and this is a very big but--it is very unlikely that your publisher really wants you to set the book up for 7" x 10" paper. He wants you to set up for this page size, which is quite a different thing. Envision your 7" x 10" page, including the desired margins, and then set margins on Letter paper that will give you the required size text block (including header and footer, if any). You can, if you want, print an outline (like a page border) or crop marks to indicate the page placement (see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/CropMarks.htm). Your publisher should be able to work with this. At least, that's the way I do it when I typeset a 6x9 book. I send the book to the commercial printer as a press-quality PDF, and he handles the imposition from there. -- 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. "Mattajang" wrote in message ... Forgot to mention this is for Microsoft Word 2003 "Mattajang" wrote: I'm trying to set my paper size to custom 7 x 10. I then go to the layout tab and select my settings there. When I go back to the other tabs to recheck everything, the paper size has automatically changed from the custom 7 x 10 setting I chose to B5 7.17 x 10.12. Why is it doing this? Someone please help! I specifically need 7 x 10 for my publisher's book specifications. I've never had this problem before; it just started doing this. Thanks for any help you can give! |
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How do I keep custom page size from changing automatically?
Once you can visualize what you need to do, the arithmetic is pretty simple.
Glad you finally got it. -- 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. "Mattajang" wrote in message ... Thanks, so much!! I finally got it right! I don't know what computer dummies would do without wonderful, helpful people like all of you! Thanks again!!! "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: You need to set the page margins such that they will constrain the text area to the size you want for the 7" x 10" page. You then need to set the header and footer margins such that they will be at the desired position within the 7" x 10" space, that is, within the rectangle you have created. For example, suppose you want 0.75" margins on all sides of the 7" x 10" page. You must add this amount to the amount of margin required to make up the difference between 7" x 10" and 8.5" x 11": 8.5" - 7" = 1.5" 1.5"/2 = 0.75" 0.75" + 0.75" = 1.5" So your side margins would be 1.5" (you may not want them to be uniform--you may want a gutter on the inside--in which case you adjust accordingly, keeping the total equal to 3". 11" - 10" = 1" 1"/2 = 0.5" 0.5" + 0.75" = 1.25" So your top and bottom margins would be 1.25" (again, you can make them uneven provided the total is 2.5"). You then set the header margin to, say, 1", which will put it 0.25" from the top of your text area. If there is no footer, then you may want to increase the top margin to allow more space between the header and the text body and leave a smaller bottom margin. You then need to create the crop marks so that they will be *outside* the 7" x 10" space. Keep in mind that the directions in the cited article were for a 6" x 9" page, so you can't follow them exactly. -- 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. "Mattajang" wrote in message ... I made the 6 x 9 crop marks as well as the rectangle to visualize the page size. When typing in the header is it supposed to appear above the horizontal crop marks? It seems to me that it would be chopped off from the body of the main text and there would be no header. When I change the size of the header/footer then the crop marks change too. Thanks for helping; I'm not too good with using Word yet. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Stop spinning your wheels. Whenever you try to set a custom size that is very close to one of the built-in sizes (and these are provided by your printer driver, BTW, not Word), Word will keep defaulting back to the built-in size. Your only recourse is to adjust margins accordingly. But--and this is a very big but--it is very unlikely that your publisher really wants you to set the book up for 7" x 10" paper. He wants you to set up for this page size, which is quite a different thing. Envision your 7" x 10" page, including the desired margins, and then set margins on Letter paper that will give you the required size text block (including header and footer, if any). You can, if you want, print an outline (like a page border) or crop marks to indicate the page placement (see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/CropMarks.htm). Your publisher should be able to work with this. At least, that's the way I do it when I typeset a 6x9 book. I send the book to the commercial printer as a press-quality PDF, and he handles the imposition from there. -- 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. "Mattajang" wrote in message ... Forgot to mention this is for Microsoft Word 2003 "Mattajang" wrote: I'm trying to set my paper size to custom 7 x 10. I then go to the layout tab and select my settings there. When I go back to the other tabs to recheck everything, the paper size has automatically changed from the custom 7 x 10 setting I chose to B5 7.17 x 10.12. Why is it doing this? Someone please help! I specifically need 7 x 10 for my publisher's book specifications. I've never had this problem before; it just started doing this. Thanks for any help you can give! |
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