A senior moment there I meant to say 'greater than A5'.

My guess is that the user has set A5 as the paper size in the print dialog
and is shrinking the A4 page to fit in that print dialog. This would indeed
shrink the font size by half, to retain the page layout. There is no
mechanism that would cause a paper size change as described in my previous
post to change the font size. Changing the paper size merely causes the text
to reflow on to more pages.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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Joe wrote:
But that was the reason for the request for help, the page was A4
size and he wanted to print it out on A5 and when he increased the
size of the paper the font reduced from Arial 12 down to about 6. I
did copy and paste the original size that he sent me but it didn't
display here.
So the original did not have a size greater than A4, it was A4 thus my
original posting.


Regards
Joe
Tasmania
"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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If the document originally had a page size of greater than A4, file
page setup paper paper size A5 will change the paper size
without changing the font size.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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Joe wrote:
Thanks Armidillow and Graham.

Graham, if ' scale to fit is more likely to be the problem than the
solution ' what suggestions do you have to help this person please?


Regards
Joe
Tasmania
"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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'Scale to fit' is more likely to be the problem than the solution.
Changing the document page setup shouldn't change the font size,
but scaling in the print dialog certainly will.

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
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Armadillow wrote:
Setting page size to A5 is only half the answer. Several places
need to have the A5 selection. Go to the Properties button of
your Print menu. Click on the "Effect" tab, and make sure that the
document size is A5. Look right under it...there is a radio
button that needs to be checked...Scale To Fit. Click on OK
button. See if this helps.

"Joe" wrote:

I am trying to help one of our senior members here with a problem
that he is having. i.e.

Joe.
I am writing a letter on M.S. Word and want to print that on size
A5. The printing is no problem but the print size come up so
small it is hardly readable. How can I overcome that? The size
is even smaller than this.

I did advise him to go into File/Page Setup/Paper and change the
size to A5 but that didn't resolve his problem.

Can anyone assist us please?

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Regards
Joe
Tasmania