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Peculiar Ruler in Word
My wife has just emailed me a Word document that is SUPPOSED to be set up for
A4, but the ruler across the top of the document shows 0-54 cm I can't get this to go back to the normal A4 ruler which would show 21 (or 29.7 if landscape). If I close the doc an restart Word, the ruler STILL shows the wrong measurement, so obviously some default or other has been changed. Can anyone offer any advice as to how i can get it back to the correct A4 ruler? Thanks in advance Pete |
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See http://www.gmayor.com/Character_Units.htm
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Peter Rooney wrote: My wife has just emailed me a Word document that is SUPPOSED to be set up for A4, but the ruler across the top of the document shows 0-54 cm I can't get this to go back to the normal A4 ruler which would show 21 (or 29.7 if landscape). If I close the doc an restart Word, the ruler STILL shows the wrong measurement, so obviously some default or other has been changed. Can anyone offer any advice as to how i can get it back to the correct A4 ruler? Thanks in advance Pete |
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Graham,
No luck, I'm afraid. The ruler still shows -3 to 18. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Even when I restart Word, the print view shows a piece of paper that's almost square - not A4 at all! Pete "Graham Mayor" wrote: See http://www.gmayor.com/Character_Units.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Peter Rooney wrote: My wife has just emailed me a Word document that is SUPPOSED to be set up for A4, but the ruler across the top of the document shows 0-54 cm I can't get this to go back to the normal A4 ruler which would show 21 (or 29.7 if landscape). If I close the doc an restart Word, the ruler STILL shows the wrong measurement, so obviously some default or other has been changed. Can anyone offer any advice as to how i can get it back to the correct A4 ruler? Thanks in advance Pete |
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Two possible issues:
1. The document contains tracked changes or comments and Word is expanding the margin to allow for the "balloons." 2. You have white space hidden; see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/WhiteSpace.htm. From your description, (1) seems more likely. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Peter Rooney" wrote in message ... Graham, No luck, I'm afraid. The ruler still shows -3 to 18. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Even when I restart Word, the print view shows a piece of paper that's almost square - not A4 at all! Pete "Graham Mayor" wrote: See http://www.gmayor.com/Character_Units.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Peter Rooney wrote: My wife has just emailed me a Word document that is SUPPOSED to be set up for A4, but the ruler across the top of the document shows 0-54 cm I can't get this to go back to the normal A4 ruler which would show 21 (or 29.7 if landscape). If I close the doc an restart Word, the ruler STILL shows the wrong measurement, so obviously some default or other has been changed. Can anyone offer any advice as to how i can get it back to the correct A4 ruler? Thanks in advance Pete |
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And perhaps the ruler/grid origin has been disturbed somehow?
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "CyberTaz" typegeneraltaz1ATcomcastdotnet wrote in message ... To tell you the truth, my money's on #2... -3 to 0 cm is left edge to left margin = 3 cm 0 to 18 cm is left margin to rt edge = 18 cm 18 cm + 3 cm = the 21 cm he's looking for, and the page looks "almost square" because the white space is hidden (21 cm X 25 cm displayed). -- Regards |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Two possible issues: 1. The document contains tracked changes or comments and Word is expanding the margin to allow for the "balloons." 2. You have white space hidden; see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/WhiteSpace.htm. From your description, (1) seems more likely. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Peter Rooney" wrote in message ... Graham, No luck, I'm afraid. The ruler still shows -3 to 18. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Even when I restart Word, the print view shows a piece of paper that's almost square - not A4 at all! Pete "Graham Mayor" wrote: See http://www.gmayor.com/Character_Units.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Peter Rooney wrote: My wife has just emailed me a Word document that is SUPPOSED to be set up for A4, but the ruler across the top of the document shows 0-54 cm I can't get this to go back to the normal A4 ruler which would show 21 (or 29.7 if landscape). If I close the doc an restart Word, the ruler STILL shows the wrong measurement, so obviously some default or other has been changed. Can anyone offer any advice as to how i can get it back to the correct A4 ruler? Thanks in advance Pete |
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To tell you the truth, my money's on #2...
-3 to 0 cm is left edge to left margin = 3 cm 0 to 18 cm is left margin to rt edge = 18 cm 18 cm + 3 cm = the 21 cm he's looking for, and the page looks "almost square" because the white space is hidden (21 cm X 25 cm displayed). -- Regards |:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... Two possible issues: 1. The document contains tracked changes or comments and Word is expanding the margin to allow for the "balloons." 2. You have white space hidden; see http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/WhiteSpace.htm. From your description, (1) seems more likely. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Peter Rooney" wrote in message ... Graham, No luck, I'm afraid. The ruler still shows -3 to 18. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Even when I restart Word, the print view shows a piece of paper that's almost square - not A4 at all! Pete "Graham Mayor" wrote: See http://www.gmayor.com/Character_Units.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Peter Rooney wrote: My wife has just emailed me a Word document that is SUPPOSED to be set up for A4, but the ruler across the top of the document shows 0-54 cm I can't get this to go back to the normal A4 ruler which would show 21 (or 29.7 if landscape). If I close the doc an restart Word, the ruler STILL shows the wrong measurement, so obviously some default or other has been changed. Can anyone offer any advice as to how i can get it back to the correct A4 ruler? Thanks in advance Pete |
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Graham, your solution worked for me like clockwork. Thanks!
"Graham Mayor" wrote: See http://www.gmayor.com/Character_Units.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Peter Rooney wrote: My wife has just emailed me a Word document that is SUPPOSED to be set up for A4, but the ruler across the top of the document shows 0-54 cm I can't get this to go back to the normal A4 ruler which would show 21 (or 29.7 if landscape). If I close the doc an restart Word, the ruler STILL shows the wrong measurement, so obviously some default or other has been changed. Can anyone offer any advice as to how i can get it back to the correct A4 ruler? Thanks in advance Pete |
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Peculiar Ruler in Word
Good morning, all!
Post Easter weekend update: At home, I uninstalled and reinstalled Office (Publisher is unaffected by this problem - starts with a normal looking A4 document) but to no avail. The worrying thing is that since I opened the document in Word at work, THAT's corrupted too! At the moment, the ruler shows a left hand margin from -1 to 0, then the ruler running from 0 to 19 and the right hand margin running from 19 to 20. the length of the page is the same, giving the page a roughly square appearance. Just wondering if some nasty piece of hidden VBA has corrupted the registry in some way and now it's corrupted my settings too. Does anyone have any idea as to if and where the paper size for Word is stored in the registry, so i can at least go and check if the settings are correct? All I want is for Word to open with a nice A4 sized document! Yours in desperation Pete |
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Oops.
I stand corrected - it WAS the white space issue. Feeling a bit foolish, but thank you all for solving this. Not sure why I couldn't make it work last weekm but have just done now, but there you go. Thanks again Pete "Peter Rooney" wrote: Good morning, all! Post Easter weekend update: At home, I uninstalled and reinstalled Office (Publisher is unaffected by this problem - starts with a normal looking A4 document) but to no avail. The worrying thing is that since I opened the document in Word at work, THAT's corrupted too! At the moment, the ruler shows a left hand margin from -1 to 0, then the ruler running from 0 to 19 and the right hand margin running from 19 to 20. the length of the page is the same, giving the page a roughly square appearance. Just wondering if some nasty piece of hidden VBA has corrupted the registry in some way and now it's corrupted my settings too. Does anyone have any idea as to if and where the paper size for Word is stored in the registry, so i can at least go and check if the settings are correct? All I want is for Word to open with a nice A4 sized document! Yours in desperation Pete |
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