measurement between 0" and 22"

[JohnTheTemp]

The measurement must be between 0" and 22".Word 2007, set to work in inches
(and the ruler shows inches)

On a particular document, two of us at different times tried to change the
left/right margins from 1" to 1.25".

Most of the time, Word displayed the error message: The measurement must be
between 0" and 22"

There were a couple random times when I was able to change the the margins
without getting the error message. I saved the document and it's now set to
the correct margin. However, the error message still appears when I try to
switch to another tab in the "Page Layout" dialog box.

I want it stopped!!

The other person has already transferred the text to a fresh document. I'm
going to try that again, but I thought I'd ask if anyone has encountered this
problem before.

Thanks for listening.

 

[JohnTheTemp]

Sorry for the typo right at the beginning.

Scratch the first sentence. My post begins by telling you my setup: "Word
2007, set to work in inches (and the ruler shows inches)."

 

[Jay Freedman]

That message appears when Word thinks you're trying to set a page size
bigger than 22", which is the maximum size Word can handle. Sometimes
gremlins cause erroneous settings like that in Normal.dotm (or Normal.dot in
earlier versions).

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/BlankDocNotBlank.htm for ways to
deal with it.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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[JohnTheTemp]

My effort to transfer the text to a fresh document seems to have worked.

Still puzzled over why the margin error message kept popping up. What might
it a symptom of? Only a corrupt document?