I am using different page margins throughout a document, but recently I'm
experiencing a problem where I cannot change the margins on a certain page
without it affecting the next one, and vice versa. I've looked everywhere to
see if I can find the reason but with no luck. Can anyone please help? I'm
using Word 2002.

The pages will need to be separated by a Section Break if you want to have
different margins on them.

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"Big Ron" wrote in message
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I am using different page margins throughout a document, but recently I'm
experiencing a problem where I cannot change the margins on a certain page
without it affecting the next one, and vice versa. I've looked everywhere
to
see if I can find the reason but with no luck. Can anyone please help? I'm
using Word 2002.

Thanks for the reply Doug, but sadly the document already has 'New page'
section breaks in it so this doesn't seem to be the problem.

As I also have tables in the document I have got around the problem by just
re-sizing the tables rather than the whole page margins, but surely this
can't be the only way.

Ron, the only thing I can think is that when you go to format the margins,
you've got "whole document" selected. Make sure you have only "this section"
selected in the dropdown.

Also, I like to set the table width to 100%. This then makes the tables
resize appropriately to the margins, tho I'm sure it could cause problems
under certain circumstances.

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~Anne Troy

www.OfficeArticles.com


"Big Ron" wrote in message
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Thanks for the reply Doug, but sadly the document already has 'New page'
section breaks in it so this doesn't seem to be the problem.

As I also have tables in the document I have got around the problem by
just
re-sizing the tables rather than the whole page margins, but surely this
can't be the only way.

If you're a former WordPerfect user, you may be trying to change margins
when what you really need to change is indents (in Format Paragraph).

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"Big Ron" wrote in message
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Thanks for the reply Doug, but sadly the document already has 'New page'
section breaks in it so this doesn't seem to be the problem.

As I also have tables in the document I have got around the problem by
just
re-sizing the tables rather than the whole page margins, but surely this
can't be the only way.

"Anne Troy" wrote:

Ron, the only thing I can think is that when you go to format the margins,
you've got "whole document" selected. Make sure you have only "this section"
selected in the dropdown.

Anne, you may have answered my problem, but where in the menus would I do
this? At the moment I'm just draging the margins to where I want them in the
'ruler' above the document.

Okay, Ron. Try this:
http://www.officearticles.com/word/c...oft_wo rd.htm
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~Anne Troy

www.OfficeArticles.com


"Big Ron" wrote in message
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"Anne Troy" wrote:

Ron, the only thing I can think is that when you go to format the
margins,
you've got "whole document" selected. Make sure you have only "this
section"
selected in the dropdown.

Anne, you may have answered my problem, but where in the menus would I do
this? At the moment I'm just draging the margins to where I want them in
the
'ruler' above the document.

That seems to have done the trick. Quite logical now I think about it, but as
the saying goes "Questions are always easy when you know the answer".

Thanks for your help Anne, and everyone else who has posted.