Help...I keep wanting to change my margin and I get the message ..this will
decrease my column even though I am trying to make my margin larger not
smaller.

Does this problem occur in one particular document, or in all new
documents?

If it's in one particular document, then open that document.
Click on Format | Columns | One | Apply to: Whole document | OK.
Save and close the document.

If it's in all new documents, then locate and open your
normal.dot file as described in Method 1 in
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm . Click
on Format | Columns | One | Apply to: Whole document | OK. Type
a character or two and delete what you just typed. Save the
normal.dot file and close it.

Bev wrote:

Help...I keep wanting to change my margin and I get the message ..this will
decrease my column even though I am trying to make my margin larger not
smaller.

Thank you .......that definitely took care of it............I have no idea
how it got changed because I always could do it before.....thanks, again.

"garfield-n-odie" wrote:

Does this problem occur in one particular document, or in all new
documents?

If it's in one particular document, then open that document.
Click on Format | Columns | One | Apply to: Whole document | OK.
Save and close the document.

If it's in all new documents, then locate and open your
normal.dot file as described in Method 1 in
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/...ocNotBlank.htm . Click
on Format | Columns | One | Apply to: Whole document | OK. Type
a character or two and delete what you just typed. Save the
normal.dot file and close it.

Bev wrote:

Help...I keep wanting to change my margin and I get the message ..this will
decrease my column even though I am trying to make my margin larger not
smaller.