[newbie on Entourage]

When I open a dot-template (which was made in Word on a PC) in my Word for
Mac 2004, the right margin is expanded by 5 cm or so. I've looked in Page
Lay-out, margins, page border, but nothing has helped me so far...

I've never had this problem before. There's a macro in the document, and if
I disable the macro, the documents looks perfect for a couple of seconds -
but then I can't printsuddenly the right boundary expands again.

I can't print the document - the document scales down to include the empty
white border on the right side.

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The most likely explanation is that the document contains "markup" (Tracked
Changes or comments), and the margin space is being allowed for the
"balloons."

--
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.

"newbie on Entourage" wrote in
message ...
When I open a dot-template (which was made in Word on a PC) in my Word for
Mac 2004, the right margin is expanded by 5 cm or so. I've looked in Page
Lay-out, margins, page border, but nothing has helped me so far...

I've never had this problem before. There's a macro in the document, and
if
I disable the macro, the documents looks perfect for a couple of seconds -
but then I can't printsuddenly the right boundary expands again.

I can't print the document - the document scales down to include the empty
white border on the right side.

[Daiya Mitchell]

Hi newbie,

It sounds like there are tracked changes in the template (or Word 2004
thinks there are) and so Word is reserving space in the margin for the
comment/change balloons. For viewing, uncheck View | Markup and see if
it fixes. For printing, try using File | Print, change Copies & Pages to
Microsoft Word, and in the Print Dialog, under Print What, set it to
Document and make sure it is not Document showing Markup.

I'm on a Mac, and that is a known issue with Word 2004 (although I
thought an update had fixed it), but if that doesn't fix it, then I
think you'll be better off re-posting the question in the Mac-specific
newsgroups, where you will reach lots of Mac users.
See here for Google/Entourage gateway to newsgroups for MacWord,
MacExcel, and other MS programs for the Mac:
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/community/community.aspx?pid=newsgroups

Technically, you *could* reach the Mac groups from the MS website you
are currently on, but I don't know how, because the MS sites don't work
so well on the Mac anyhow and are a bit hard to navigate---you'd have to
search hard for them. I'd say just use Google Groups, with the link above.

hope that helps,
Daiya

newbie on Entourage wrote:
When I open a dot-template (which was made in Word on a PC) in my Word for
Mac 2004, the right margin is expanded by 5 cm or so. I've looked in Page
Lay-out, margins, page border, but nothing has helped me so far...

I've never had this problem before. There's a macro in the document, and if
I disable the macro, the documents looks perfect for a couple of seconds -
but then I can't printsuddenly the right boundary expands again.

I can't print the document - the document scales down to include the empty
white border on the right side.

[Daiya Mitchell]

PS to previous response--If imaginary or real markup is the problem,
Accepting all Changes on the Reviewing Toolbar should also fix it.

Side note--templates on the Mac work differently than in Windows. On
Windows, you can double-click a template to create a doc based on it,
but on the Mac, you have to use File | Project Gallery to create a doc
based on a template. And unfortunately the Project Gallery can only see
certain folders where it expects templates to be--so Applications/MS
Office/Templates/My Templates is a good place to put them.

So make sure you don't open and edit the template on the company servers
and annoy the person who made it.

newbie on Entourage wrote:
When I open a dot-template (which was made in Word on a PC) in my Word for
Mac 2004, the right margin is expanded by 5 cm or so. I've looked in Page
Lay-out, margins, page border, but nothing has helped me so far...

I've never had this problem before. There's a macro in the document, and if
I disable the macro, the documents looks perfect for a couple of seconds -
but then I can't printsuddenly the right boundary expands again.

I can't print the document - the document scales down to include the empty
white border on the right side.

[newbie on Entourage]

Thanks - that's excactly it! I'm really impressed about your quick answers...
:-)

/Lisa

"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

The most likely explanation is that the document contains "markup" (Tracked
Changes or comments), and the margin space is being allowed for the
"balloons."

--
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.

"newbie on Entourage" wrote in
message ...
When I open a dot-template (which was made in Word on a PC) in my Word for
Mac 2004, the right margin is expanded by 5 cm or so. I've looked in Page
Lay-out, margins, page border, but nothing has helped me so far...

I've never had this problem before. There's a macro in the document, and
if
I disable the macro, the documents looks perfect for a couple of seconds -
but then I can't printsuddenly the right boundary expands again.

I can't print the document - the document scales down to include the empty
white border on the right side.

[newbie on Entourage]

Thanks a lot! This is really useful to me. :-)

Lisa

"Daiya Mitchell" wrote:

PS to previous response--If imaginary or real markup is the problem,
Accepting all Changes on the Reviewing Toolbar should also fix it.

Side note--templates on the Mac work differently than in Windows. On
Windows, you can double-click a template to create a doc based on it,
but on the Mac, you have to use File | Project Gallery to create a doc
based on a template. And unfortunately the Project Gallery can only see
certain folders where it expects templates to be--so Applications/MS
Office/Templates/My Templates is a good place to put them.

So make sure you don't open and edit the template on the company servers
and annoy the person who made it.

newbie on Entourage wrote:
When I open a dot-template (which was made in Word on a PC) in my Word for
Mac 2004, the right margin is expanded by 5 cm or so. I've looked in Page
Lay-out, margins, page border, but nothing has helped me so far...

I've never had this problem before. There's a macro in the document, and if
I disable the macro, the documents looks perfect for a couple of seconds -
but then I can't printsuddenly the right boundary expands again.

I can't print the document - the document scales down to include the empty
white border on the right side.

[Daiya Mitchell]

yeah, it's a quirk that trips up a lot of people. If using the Project
Gallery gets annoying, once the template is in the right place you can
record a macro of yourself using the Project Gallery to open it, for
quick access. See Help on record a macro.

Where you might run into problems is if the template is kept on a
company server and the person who made it updates the one on the server,
then you have to remember to re-copy the new version. In such a case, I
believe, you could use Word | Preferences | File Locations and set
Workgroup Templates to point at a space on the company server, and then
Project Gallery will also see that space and the templates (when the
server is connected), and you'll always get the most up-to-date copy.
I'm not in a company so don't have a lot of experience with this one.


newbie on Entourage wrote:
Thanks a lot! This is really useful to me. :-)

Lisa

"Daiya Mitchell" wrote:


PS to previous response--If imaginary or real markup is the problem,
Accepting all Changes on the Reviewing Toolbar should also fix it.

Side note--templates on the Mac work differently than in Windows. On
Windows, you can double-click a template to create a doc based on it,
but on the Mac, you have to use File | Project Gallery to create a doc
based on a template. And unfortunately the Project Gallery can only see
certain folders where it expects templates to be--so Applications/MS
Office/Templates/My Templates is a good place to put them.

So make sure you don't open and edit the template on the company servers
and annoy the person who made it.

newbie on Entourage wrote:

When I open a dot-template (which was made in Word on a PC) in my Word for
Mac 2004, the right margin is expanded by 5 cm or so. I've looked in Page
Lay-out, margins, page border, but nothing has helped me so far...

I've never had this problem before. There's a macro in the document, and if
I disable the macro, the documents looks perfect for a couple of seconds -
but then I can't printsuddenly the right boundary expands again.

I can't print the document - the document scales down to include the empty
white border on the right side.