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Or it could be that the dumb IT support staff have setup the print driver
and page layout to use different page sizes and the print dialog has the
zoom setting set to scale to paper size ... but the header/footer is the
usual cause.

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Jay Freedman wrote:
On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 15:12:00 -0800, Clive130651
wrote:

Dumb Word users wishes to understand why when printing a full page of
standard Avery size labels the print always contains two pages ,
E.g. Set for Avery 5170 which is 3 labels across and seven down, the
result is a page with 3 x 6 labels on and "Page 1 of 2" in the
Footer, plus page two with the remaining 3 labels and similarly
"Page 2 of 2" on the Footer.

The address text being used for the Label is standard word text, and
Template used to create the document which contains the address text
does not include page numbering in the Footer.

Its driving me crazy !

Thanks for any suggestions (except .. "hand-write the labels!")


The reason is that the Dumb User (or maybe someone else) added a
footer to the Normal.dot template, which is what the label dialog
uses to create the page of labels. There is no way to force Word to
use a different template when you use that dialog.

The table that holds the label text is already so close to the edges
of the page that there's no room for a footer. With the footer in the
way, the last row of the table is forced to the next page. This is
why the article
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...alTemplate.htm
warns you not to put a footer in Normal.dot.

You can (a) remove the footer from Normal.dot or (b) turn your other
template into a mail merge main document and set up the address text
as a mail merge source
(http://www.gmayor.com/mail_merge_lab...h_word_xp.htm).