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Hi all
Just curious What is the purpose of allowing the overall margins in page setup to be a negative value ? Thanks in advance Andrew |
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I don't know how you're getting that to work. When I try it (Word 2003), I
get a message box that says 'The measurement must be between 0" and 22".' The *paragraph indents* can be set to negative values, even to the point of letting the text run off the page; but the page margins can't do that. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Andrew Kennard wrote: Hi all Just curious What is the purpose of allowing the overall margins in page setup to be a negative value ? Thanks in advance Andrew |
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In most versions of Word a negative value for the top or bottom page margin
makes it absolute (so it is not affected by the size of the header/footer). This is not exactly intuitive, but is a Word convention. Negative values are not accepted for side margins. -- 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. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... I don't know how you're getting that to work. When I try it (Word 2003), I get a message box that says 'The measurement must be between 0" and 22".' The *paragraph indents* can be set to negative values, even to the point of letting the text run off the page; but the page margins can't do that. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Andrew Kennard wrote: Hi all Just curious What is the purpose of allowing the overall margins in page setup to be a negative value ? Thanks in advance Andrew |
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Now that you mention it, I did know that once upon a time. I think I last
used it when I still had Word 6.0. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: In most versions of Word a negative value for the top or bottom page margin makes it absolute (so it is not affected by the size of the header/footer). This is not exactly intuitive, but is a Word convention. Negative values are not accepted for side margins. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... I don't know how you're getting that to work. When I try it (Word 2003), I get a message box that says 'The measurement must be between 0" and 22".' The *paragraph indents* can be set to negative values, even to the point of letting the text run off the page; but the page margins can't do that. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Andrew Kennard wrote: Hi all Just curious What is the purpose of allowing the overall margins in page setup to be a negative value ? Thanks in advance Andrew |
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The only reason I know about it is that it is mentioned in
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=162235 ("WD97: How to Add a Portrait Page Number to a Landscape Page"). For whatever reason, I don't believe it is mentioned in http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...peSection.htm; we must have figured out a workaround or decided it wasn't needed. -- 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. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... Now that you mention it, I did know that once upon a time. I think I last used it when I still had Word 6.0. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: In most versions of Word a negative value for the top or bottom page margin makes it absolute (so it is not affected by the size of the header/footer). This is not exactly intuitive, but is a Word convention. Negative values are not accepted for side margins. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... I don't know how you're getting that to work. When I try it (Word 2003), I get a message box that says 'The measurement must be between 0" and 22".' The *paragraph indents* can be set to negative values, even to the point of letting the text run off the page; but the page margins can't do that. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Andrew Kennard wrote: Hi all Just curious What is the purpose of allowing the overall margins in page setup to be a negative value ? Thanks in advance Andrew |
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Thanks for the feed back
I was using Word 2000 which allows negative top and bottom margins and I just wondered why "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... The only reason I know about it is that it is mentioned in http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=162235 ("WD97: How to Add a Portrait Page Number to a Landscape Page"). For whatever reason, I don't believe it is mentioned in http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting...peSection.htm; we must have figured out a workaround or decided it wasn't needed. -- 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. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... Now that you mention it, I did know that once upon a time. I think I last used it when I still had Word 6.0. Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: In most versions of Word a negative value for the top or bottom page margin makes it absolute (so it is not affected by the size of the header/footer). This is not exactly intuitive, but is a Word convention. Negative values are not accepted for side margins. "Jay Freedman" wrote in message ... I don't know how you're getting that to work. When I try it (Word 2003), I get a message box that says 'The measurement must be between 0" and 22".' The *paragraph indents* can be set to negative values, even to the point of letting the text run off the page; but the page margins can't do that. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Andrew Kennard wrote: Hi all Just curious What is the purpose of allowing the overall margins in page setup to be a negative value ? Thanks in advance Andrew |
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