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Is there any way to specify that the page has to print out on letter sized
paper even though it is a web document?


"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
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In a web page (HTML), there is no such thing as a page the way you think
of a page. In a document, the page corresponds to the paper size (so A4 or
Letter, for example). But in a Web page, what do you consider as a page?
Basically, you consider a screen as a page. But there are many different
screen sizes displaying at many different resolutions. So it is necessary
to define your web page size , usually 1024 or 1280 pixels wide. (1024
will fit most PCs including Netbooks, so is a good choice if you want
please the maximum number of user.) Word is not a good choice for creating
web pages though.

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Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"Wowbagger" privacy, please wrote in message
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This is in Word 2007.

The problem I am having is with the left/right margins:

When in print layout (and print preview) the page appears to be your
standard, run-of the mill letter-sized document. The fanciest aspects on
the page are some centered text and a few bulleted paragraphs. No
images, no tables, no hyperlinks, nothing that I can think of that would
make a difference.

When I switch to web layout the page size changes itself: the ruler at
the top indicates the page is 10 1/2 inches wide (even though the ruler
in print layout says 8 1/2 inches wide) and when I grab the right edge of
the white space on the ruler (with the cursor changing to a left/right
arrow) and drag the paper size back to what it should be it snaps back as
soon as I release the mouse button.

Shouldn't the margins be the same regardless of which layout you are
viewing?

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
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Is the issue that there appears to be no margin at the top and bottom of
the page? If that is the case, move the mouse cursor to the junction
between two pages until the mouse cursor changes to two vertically
opposed arrows at which point you should get a tooltip appearing with
the message "Double-click to show white space". Double click with the
left mouse button.

There is also a setting for this under Options, but you did not say what
version of Word you are using and the location differs by version (at
least with 2007)

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Hope this helps.

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
"Wowbagger" privacy, please wrote in message
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I have a document with .5 .5 .5 .5 margins that display correctly in
every view except for page layout - when viewing in layout mode I cannot
get Word to treat the document as an 8 1/2 x 11 page.

How can I correct this issue?