[Wowbagger]

I have a document with .5 .5 .5 .5 margins that display correctly in every
view except for page layout - when viewing in layout mode I cannot get Word
to treat the document as an 8 1/2 x 11 page.

How can I correct this issue?

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

Is the issue that there appears to be no margin at the top and bottom of the
page? If that is the case, move the mouse cursor to the junction between
two pages until the mouse cursor changes to two vertically opposed arrows at
which point you should get a tooltip appearing with the message
"Double-click to show white space". Double click with the left mouse
button.

There is also a setting for this under Options, but you did not say what
version of Word you are using and the location differs by version (at least
with 2007)

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
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I have a document with .5 .5 .5 .5 margins that display correctly in every
view except for page layout - when viewing in layout mode I cannot get Word
to treat the document as an 8 1/2 x 11 page.

How can I correct this issue?

[Wowbagger]

This is in Word 2007.

The problem I am having is with the left/right margins:

When in print layout (and print preview) the page appears to be your
standard, run-of the mill letter-sized document. The fanciest aspects on
the page are some centered text and a few bulleted paragraphs. No images,
no tables, no hyperlinks, nothing that I can think of that would make a
difference.

When I switch to web layout the page size changes itself: the ruler at the
top indicates the page is 10 1/2 inches wide (even though the ruler in print
layout says 8 1/2 inches wide) and when I grab the right edge of the white
space on the ruler (with the cursor changing to a left/right arrow) and drag
the paper size back to what it should be it snaps back as soon as I release
the mouse button.

Shouldn't the margins be the same regardless of which layout you are
viewing?

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
...
Is the issue that there appears to be no margin at the top and bottom of
the page? If that is the case, move the mouse cursor to the junction
between two pages until the mouse cursor changes to two vertically opposed
arrows at which point you should get a tooltip appearing with the message
"Double-click to show white space". Double click with the left mouse
button.

There is also a setting for this under Options, but you did not say what
version of Word you are using and the location differs by version (at
least with 2007)

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
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I have a document with .5 .5 .5 .5 margins that display correctly in every
view except for page layout - when viewing in layout mode I cannot get
Word to treat the document as an 8 1/2 x 11 page.

How can I correct this issue?

[Terry Farrell]

In a web page (HTML), there is no such thing as a page the way you think of
a page. In a document, the page corresponds to the paper size (so A4 or
Letter, for example). But in a Web page, what do you consider as a page?
Basically, you consider a screen as a page. But there are many different
screen sizes displaying at many different resolutions. So it is necessary to
define your web page size , usually 1024 or 1280 pixels wide. (1024 will fit
most PCs including Netbooks, so is a good choice if you want please the
maximum number of user.) Word is not a good choice for creating web pages
though.

--
Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

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This is in Word 2007.

The problem I am having is with the left/right margins:

When in print layout (and print preview) the page appears to be your
standard, run-of the mill letter-sized document. The fanciest aspects on
the page are some centered text and a few bulleted paragraphs. No images,
no tables, no hyperlinks, nothing that I can think of that would make a
difference.

When I switch to web layout the page size changes itself: the ruler at the
top indicates the page is 10 1/2 inches wide (even though the ruler in
print layout says 8 1/2 inches wide) and when I grab the right edge of the
white space on the ruler (with the cursor changing to a left/right arrow)
and drag the paper size back to what it should be it snaps back as soon as
I release the mouse button.

Shouldn't the margins be the same regardless of which layout you are
viewing?

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
...
Is the issue that there appears to be no margin at the top and bottom of
the page? If that is the case, move the mouse cursor to the junction
between two pages until the mouse cursor changes to two vertically
opposed arrows at which point you should get a tooltip appearing with the
message "Double-click to show white space". Double click with the left
mouse button.

There is also a setting for this under Options, but you did not say what
version of Word you are using and the location differs by version (at
least with 2007)

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
"Wowbagger" privacy, please wrote in message
...
I have a document with .5 .5 .5 .5 margins that display correctly in
every view except for page layout - when viewing in layout mode I cannot
get Word to treat the document as an 8 1/2 x 11 page.

How can I correct this issue?

[Wowbagger]

Is there any way to specify that the page has to print out on letter sized
paper even though it is a web document?


"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
...
In a web page (HTML), there is no such thing as a page the way you think
of a page. In a document, the page corresponds to the paper size (so A4 or
Letter, for example). But in a Web page, what do you consider as a page?
Basically, you consider a screen as a page. But there are many different
screen sizes displaying at many different resolutions. So it is necessary
to define your web page size , usually 1024 or 1280 pixels wide. (1024
will fit most PCs including Netbooks, so is a good choice if you want
please the maximum number of user.) Word is not a good choice for creating
web pages though.

--
Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"Wowbagger" privacy, please wrote in message
...
This is in Word 2007.

The problem I am having is with the left/right margins:

When in print layout (and print preview) the page appears to be your
standard, run-of the mill letter-sized document. The fanciest aspects on
the page are some centered text and a few bulleted paragraphs. No
images, no tables, no hyperlinks, nothing that I can think of that would
make a difference.

When I switch to web layout the page size changes itself: the ruler at
the top indicates the page is 10 1/2 inches wide (even though the ruler
in print layout says 8 1/2 inches wide) and when I grab the right edge of
the white space on the ruler (with the cursor changing to a left/right
arrow) and drag the paper size back to what it should be it snaps back as
soon as I release the mouse button.

Shouldn't the margins be the same regardless of which layout you are
viewing?

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
...
Is the issue that there appears to be no margin at the top and bottom of
the page? If that is the case, move the mouse cursor to the junction
between two pages until the mouse cursor changes to two vertically
opposed arrows at which point you should get a tooltip appearing with
the message "Double-click to show white space". Double click with the
left mouse button.

There is also a setting for this under Options, but you did not say what
version of Word you are using and the location differs by version (at
least with 2007)

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
"Wowbagger" privacy, please wrote in message
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I have a document with .5 .5 .5 .5 margins that display correctly in
every view except for page layout - when viewing in layout mode I cannot
get Word to treat the document as an 8 1/2 x 11 page.

How can I correct this issue?

[Terry Farrell]

Not in the HTML document, only by selecting Letter in the printer settings.
You can see this by opening a web page in Internet Explorer (one with a long
page that you have to scroll down), then select File, Page Setup and choose
Letter, then select File Print Preview. You can now make minor changes in
where the page will break by moving the Top/Bottom margins using the mouse.

Terry

"Wowbagger" privacy, please wrote in message
...
Is there any way to specify that the page has to print out on letter sized
paper even though it is a web document?


"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
...
In a web page (HTML), there is no such thing as a page the way you think
of a page. In a document, the page corresponds to the paper size (so A4
or Letter, for example). But in a Web page, what do you consider as a
page? Basically, you consider a screen as a page. But there are many
different screen sizes displaying at many different resolutions. So it is
necessary to define your web page size , usually 1024 or 1280 pixels
wide. (1024 will fit most PCs including Netbooks, so is a good choice if
you want please the maximum number of user.) Word is not a good choice
for creating web pages though.

--
Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"Wowbagger" privacy, please wrote in message
...
This is in Word 2007.

The problem I am having is with the left/right margins:

When in print layout (and print preview) the page appears to be your
standard, run-of the mill letter-sized document. The fanciest aspects
on the page are some centered text and a few bulleted paragraphs. No
images, no tables, no hyperlinks, nothing that I can think of that would
make a difference.

When I switch to web layout the page size changes itself: the ruler at
the top indicates the page is 10 1/2 inches wide (even though the ruler
in print layout says 8 1/2 inches wide) and when I grab the right edge
of the white space on the ruler (with the cursor changing to a
left/right arrow) and drag the paper size back to what it should be it
snaps back as soon as I release the mouse button.

Shouldn't the margins be the same regardless of which layout you are
viewing?

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
...
Is the issue that there appears to be no margin at the top and bottom
of the page? If that is the case, move the mouse cursor to the
junction between two pages until the mouse cursor changes to two
vertically opposed arrows at which point you should get a tooltip
appearing with the message "Double-click to show white space". Double
click with the left mouse button.

There is also a setting for this under Options, but you did not say
what version of Word you are using and the location differs by version
(at least with 2007)

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
"Wowbagger" privacy, please wrote in message
...
I have a document with .5 .5 .5 .5 margins that display correctly in
every view except for page layout - when viewing in layout mode I
cannot get Word to treat the document as an 8 1/2 x 11 page.

How can I correct this issue?

[Wowbagger]

The page will print out on letter-sized paper but it prints out as landscape
with the centered text centered on the landscape orientation and the rest of
the text shrunk to fit on the page.


"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
...
Not in the HTML document, only by selecting Letter in the printer
settings. You can see this by opening a web page in Internet Explorer (one
with a long page that you have to scroll down), then select File, Page
Setup and choose Letter, then select File Print Preview. You can now make
minor changes in where the page will break by moving the Top/Bottom
margins using the mouse.

Terry

"Wowbagger" privacy, please wrote in message
...
Is there any way to specify that the page has to print out on letter
sized paper even though it is a web document?


"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
...
In a web page (HTML), there is no such thing as a page the way you think
of a page. In a document, the page corresponds to the paper size (so A4
or Letter, for example). But in a Web page, what do you consider as a
page? Basically, you consider a screen as a page. But there are many
different screen sizes displaying at many different resolutions. So it
is necessary to define your web page size , usually 1024 or 1280 pixels
wide. (1024 will fit most PCs including Netbooks, so is a good choice if
you want please the maximum number of user.) Word is not a good choice
for creating web pages though.

--
Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"Wowbagger" privacy, please wrote in message
...
This is in Word 2007.

The problem I am having is with the left/right margins:

When in print layout (and print preview) the page appears to be your
standard, run-of the mill letter-sized document. The fanciest aspects
on the page are some centered text and a few bulleted paragraphs. No
images, no tables, no hyperlinks, nothing that I can think of that
would make a difference.

When I switch to web layout the page size changes itself: the ruler at
the top indicates the page is 10 1/2 inches wide (even though the ruler
in print layout says 8 1/2 inches wide) and when I grab the right edge
of the white space on the ruler (with the cursor changing to a
left/right arrow) and drag the paper size back to what it should be it
snaps back as soon as I release the mouse button.

Shouldn't the margins be the same regardless of which layout you are
viewing?

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
...
Is the issue that there appears to be no margin at the top and bottom
of the page? If that is the case, move the mouse cursor to the
junction between two pages until the mouse cursor changes to two
vertically opposed arrows at which point you should get a tooltip
appearing with the message "Double-click to show white space". Double
click with the left mouse button.

There is also a setting for this under Options, but you did not say
what version of Word you are using and the location differs by version
(at least with 2007)

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
"Wowbagger" privacy, please wrote in message
...
I have a document with .5 .5 .5 .5 margins that display correctly in
every view except for page layout - when viewing in layout mode I
cannot get Word to treat the document as an 8 1/2 x 11 page.

How can I correct this issue?

[Terry Farrell]

What does it look like in Print Preview? I'm at a loss why a portrait page
is printing in landscape. Is the Printer setup correctly.

Terry

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...
The page will print out on letter-sized paper but it prints out as
landscape with the centered text centered on the landscape orientation and
the rest of the text shrunk to fit on the page.


"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
...
Not in the HTML document, only by selecting Letter in the printer
settings. You can see this by opening a web page in Internet Explorer
(one with a long page that you have to scroll down), then select File,
Page Setup and choose Letter, then select File Print Preview. You can now
make minor changes in where the page will break by moving the Top/Bottom
margins using the mouse.

Terry

"Wowbagger" privacy, please wrote in message
...
Is there any way to specify that the page has to print out on letter
sized paper even though it is a web document?


"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
...
In a web page (HTML), there is no such thing as a page the way you
think of a page. In a document, the page corresponds to the paper size
(so A4 or Letter, for example). But in a Web page, what do you consider
as a page? Basically, you consider a screen as a page. But there are
many different screen sizes displaying at many different resolutions.
So it is necessary to define your web page size , usually 1024 or 1280
pixels wide. (1024 will fit most PCs including Netbooks, so is a good
choice if you want please the maximum number of user.) Word is not a
good choice for creating web pages though.

--
Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"Wowbagger" privacy, please wrote in message
...
This is in Word 2007.

The problem I am having is with the left/right margins:

When in print layout (and print preview) the page appears to be your
standard, run-of the mill letter-sized document. The fanciest aspects
on the page are some centered text and a few bulleted paragraphs. No
images, no tables, no hyperlinks, nothing that I can think of that
would make a difference.

When I switch to web layout the page size changes itself: the ruler at
the top indicates the page is 10 1/2 inches wide (even though the
ruler in print layout says 8 1/2 inches wide) and when I grab the
right edge of the white space on the ruler (with the cursor changing
to a left/right arrow) and drag the paper size back to what it should
be it snaps back as soon as I release the mouse button.

Shouldn't the margins be the same regardless of which layout you are
viewing?

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
...
Is the issue that there appears to be no margin at the top and bottom
of the page? If that is the case, move the mouse cursor to the
junction between two pages until the mouse cursor changes to two
vertically opposed arrows at which point you should get a tooltip
appearing with the message "Double-click to show white space".
Double click with the left mouse button.

There is also a setting for this under Options, but you did not say
what version of Word you are using and the location differs by
version (at least with 2007)

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
"Wowbagger" privacy, please wrote in message
...
I have a document with .5 .5 .5 .5 margins that display correctly in
every view except for page layout - when viewing in layout mode I
cannot get Word to treat the document as an 8 1/2 x 11 page.

How can I correct this issue?

[Wowbagger]

"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
...
What does it look like in Print Preview? I'm at a loss why a portrait page
is printing in landscape. Is the Printer setup correctly.

Print preview in every layout except for the web layout displays correctly.




Terry

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...
The page will print out on letter-sized paper but it prints out as
landscape with the centered text centered on the landscape orientation
and the rest of the text shrunk to fit on the page.


"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
...
Not in the HTML document, only by selecting Letter in the printer
settings. You can see this by opening a web page in Internet Explorer
(one with a long page that you have to scroll down), then select File,
Page Setup and choose Letter, then select File Print Preview. You can
now make minor changes in where the page will break by moving the
Top/Bottom margins using the mouse.

Terry

"Wowbagger" privacy, please wrote in message
...
Is there any way to specify that the page has to print out on letter
sized paper even though it is a web document?


"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
...
In a web page (HTML), there is no such thing as a page the way you
think of a page. In a document, the page corresponds to the paper size
(so A4 or Letter, for example). But in a Web page, what do you
consider as a page? Basically, you consider a screen as a page. But
there are many different screen sizes displaying at many different
resolutions. So it is necessary to define your web page size , usually
1024 or 1280 pixels wide. (1024 will fit most PCs including Netbooks,
so is a good choice if you want please the maximum number of user.)
Word is not a good choice for creating web pages though.

--
Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"Wowbagger" privacy, please wrote in message
...
This is in Word 2007.

The problem I am having is with the left/right margins:

When in print layout (and print preview) the page appears to be your
standard, run-of the mill letter-sized document. The fanciest
aspects on the page are some centered text and a few bulleted
paragraphs. No images, no tables, no hyperlinks, nothing that I can
think of that would make a difference.

When I switch to web layout the page size changes itself: the ruler
at the top indicates the page is 10 1/2 inches wide (even though the
ruler in print layout says 8 1/2 inches wide) and when I grab the
right edge of the white space on the ruler (with the cursor changing
to a left/right arrow) and drag the paper size back to what it should
be it snaps back as soon as I release the mouse button.

Shouldn't the margins be the same regardless of which layout you are
viewing?

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
...
Is the issue that there appears to be no margin at the top and
bottom of the page? If that is the case, move the mouse cursor to
the junction between two pages until the mouse cursor changes to two
vertically opposed arrows at which point you should get a tooltip
appearing with the message "Double-click to show white space".
Double click with the left mouse button.

There is also a setting for this under Options, but you did not say
what version of Word you are using and the location differs by
version (at least with 2007)

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of
my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
"Wowbagger" privacy, please wrote in message
...
I have a document with .5 .5 .5 .5 margins that display correctly in
every view except for page layout - when viewing in layout mode I
cannot get Word to treat the document as an 8 1/2 x 11 page.

How can I correct this issue?

[Terry Farrell]

I can only suggest that you are attempting a layout that Word doesn't do
well in HTML (which is quite a lot, unfortunately).

Terry

"Wowbagger" privacy, please wrote in message
...

"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
...
What does it look like in Print Preview? I'm at a loss why a portrait
page is printing in landscape. Is the Printer setup correctly.

Print preview in every layout except for the web layout displays
correctly.




Terry

"Wowbagger" privacy, please wrote in message
...
The page will print out on letter-sized paper but it prints out as
landscape with the centered text centered on the landscape orientation
and the rest of the text shrunk to fit on the page.


"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
...
Not in the HTML document, only by selecting Letter in the printer
settings. You can see this by opening a web page in Internet Explorer
(one with a long page that you have to scroll down), then select File,
Page Setup and choose Letter, then select File Print Preview. You can
now make minor changes in where the page will break by moving the
Top/Bottom margins using the mouse.

Terry

"Wowbagger" privacy, please wrote in message
...
Is there any way to specify that the page has to print out on letter
sized paper even though it is a web document?


"Terry Farrell" wrote in message
...
In a web page (HTML), there is no such thing as a page the way you
think of a page. In a document, the page corresponds to the paper
size (so A4 or Letter, for example). But in a Web page, what do you
consider as a page? Basically, you consider a screen as a page. But
there are many different screen sizes displaying at many different
resolutions. So it is necessary to define your web page size ,
usually 1024 or 1280 pixels wide. (1024 will fit most PCs including
Netbooks, so is a good choice if you want please the maximum number
of user.) Word is not a good choice for creating web pages though.

--
Terry Farrell - MSWord MVP

"Wowbagger" privacy, please wrote in message
...
This is in Word 2007.

The problem I am having is with the left/right margins:

When in print layout (and print preview) the page appears to be your
standard, run-of the mill letter-sized document. The fanciest
aspects on the page are some centered text and a few bulleted
paragraphs. No images, no tables, no hyperlinks, nothing that I can
think of that would make a difference.

When I switch to web layout the page size changes itself: the ruler
at the top indicates the page is 10 1/2 inches wide (even though the
ruler in print layout says 8 1/2 inches wide) and when I grab the
right edge of the white space on the ruler (with the cursor changing
to a left/right arrow) and drag the paper size back to what it
should be it snaps back as soon as I release the mouse button.

Shouldn't the margins be the same regardless of which layout you are
viewing?

"Doug Robbins - Word MVP" wrote in message
...
Is the issue that there appears to be no margin at the top and
bottom of the page? If that is the case, move the mouse cursor to
the junction between two pages until the mouse cursor changes to
two vertically opposed arrows at which point you should get a
tooltip appearing with the message "Double-click to show white
space". Double click with the left mouse button.

There is also a setting for this under Options, but you did not say
what version of Word you are using and the location differs by
version (at least with 2007)

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of
my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP, originally posted via msnews.microsoft.com
"Wowbagger" privacy, please wrote in message
...
I have a document with .5 .5 .5 .5 margins that display correctly
in every view except for page layout - when viewing in layout mode
I cannot get Word to treat the document as an 8 1/2 x 11 page.

How can I correct this issue?