Margin frustrations!

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SteveH

Hello

I have an awkward margin problem in Word 2000 and wondered if anyone would
be able to provide me with a Web link or advice about resolving it.

I have messed about with the usual File | Page setup options and also tried
to move the actual margins with the mouse pointer in an open document - to no
avail.

The problem I am having is that at the end of the page in a (30-page) Word
document, sometimes the text goes off-page. This seems to occur with the
final paragraph on a page.

When I highlight the text and position it correctly (an inch from both right
and left borders, for example), it then displaces the text on the following
page so that it, instead, is out of position. And so it goes on.

Which is the easiest way of resolving this, please?
 
C

Charles Kenyon

How are you moving text around? Do you have point and type enabled? (If so,
turn it off!)

Normally one does not select text and position its borders, the borders are
set in the page margins and the paragraph indents.

Click on the pilcrow on your formatting toolbar (reveal non-printing
characters, looks like a backward's P). My guess is that your document is
going to be full of weird formatting, directly applied.

If you plan on using Word much, take some time to explore how to format
documents through styles. If you routinely work with 30-page documents, you
probably also want to explore sections and tables of contents.
http://addbalance.com/usersguide/basic_formatting.htm
http://addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm
http://addbalance.com/usersguide/sections.htm
http://addbalance.com/usersguide/complex_documents.htm

To address your immediate concern, try selecting the problem text and with
it selected press Ctrl-Q and Ctrl-Spacebar. Then press an arrow key so you
don't inintentionally delete your selected text while you look it over. This
will reset your directly-applied formatting to that of the underlying
paragraph style. If this makes things worse, press Ctrl-Z to undo.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide


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