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Larry Dees Larry Dees is offline
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Default Border error message regarding pt size

I am having the same error, however the error occurs when you try to get into
the 'page borders' tab, and Word won't let me enter the tab to change the
settings. Any idea on how to get around this?

"Jay Freedman" wrote:

It isn't complaining about the width of the border. Somehow you've gotten a
bad setting for a page border.

In the Format Borders and Shading dialog, go to the Page Border tab and
click the Options button at the lower right. Each of the four boxes in the
Margins group must be set to a number between 1 and 31 pt. (If this is set
wrong, it doesn't matter that the Page Border itself is set to None.)

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Laura Kay wrote:
I'm trying to format borders in a table and the error messge "The
measurement must be between 1 pt and 31 pt" appears.

I've changed the pt size to 1 pt but it doesn't help. It's only in
this one document. If I cut and paste to a new document the borders
function works fine. Unfortunately, it's a huge document and I can't
copy the whole thing to a new document. Anyone have experience or a
solution with this?