[Terry Farrell]

Not in the HTML document, only by selecting Letter in the printer settings.
You can see this by opening a web page in Internet Explorer (one with a long
page that you have to scroll down), then select File, Page Setup and choose
Letter, then select File Print Preview. You can now make minor changes in
where the page will break by moving the Top/Bottom margins using the mouse.

Terry

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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

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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
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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?