page orientation is off centre

[saritakwade]

I am writing a document in Word, that is 150 pages long.
I have my margins all set at 1", yet for the whole document, the page
orientation and text is appearing oriented to the right, with a large gap on
the left side.
In print preview, I get the same thing, and when I print the document is
noticeably off centre to the right.

I have checked page setup - it is US letter. The ruler above shows margins
from 0-6. When I try to stretch the right margin on the ruler to 7.5, it
creates more white paper space, and my text is even more off centre. The
ruler is also not continuing on the left side past the margin, the way it is
in a new document.
It is cut off at the left margin tab.

The page almost looks as though it is in landscape, though it is not, and my
pages that are landscape oriented are having the same issue.

I did insert section breaks for landscape pages - have I triggered something
else to throw my margins off?

This has happened in two 2004 word documents now, and I'm not sure how I am
causing this to happen.

Thanks for your help in advance !
Sarah

 

[saritakwade]

One more thing that I have just noticed. I tried to cut and paste the
document into a new document. Now I am seeing two page numbers watermarked in
the footer. One in the normal left
margin area, and one way out to the left side at approx 9in.
This is very strange!

 

[Jim Gordon Mac MVP]

I am writing a document in Word, that is 150 pages long.
I have my margins all set at 1", yet for the whole document, the page
orientation and text is appearing oriented to the right, with a large gap on
the left side.
In print preview, I get the same thing, and when I print the document is
noticeably off centre to the right.

I have checked page setup - it is US letter. The ruler above shows margins
from 0-6. When I try to stretch the right margin on the ruler to 7.5, it
creates more white paper space, and my text is even more off centre. The
ruler is also not continuing on the left side past the margin, the way it is
in a new document.
It is cut off at the left margin tab.

The page almost looks as though it is in landscape, though it is not, and my
pages that are landscape oriented are having the same issue.

I did insert section breaks for landscape pages - have I triggered something
else to throw my margins off?

This has happened in two 2004 word documents now, and I'm not sure how I am
causing this to happen.

Thanks for your help in advance !
Sarah

Hi Sarah,

I'm wondering if perhaps there is a large "gutter" setting for your
document. The "gutter" is some extra room to the side of the margin so
that if a document is bound like a book or magazine, there is some extra
space for the binding.

Try using the Format menu and choose Document. On the Margins tab, make
sure the Gutter is adjusted to zero if you want even spacing on both
sides of the document.

-Jim

 

[saritakwade via MacKB.com]

Hi there,
Thanks for your tip. I do have the gutter at 0.
All margins are showing 1". Do you have any other ideas ?
Thank you,
Sarah

I am writing a document in Word, that is 150 pages long.
I have my margins all set at 1", yet for the whole document, the page

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Thanks for your help in advance !
Sarah

Hi Sarah,

I'm wondering if perhaps there is a large "gutter" setting for your
document. The "gutter" is some extra room to the side of the margin so
that if a document is bound like a book or magazine, there is some extra
space for the binding.

Try using the Format menu and choose Document. On the Margins tab, make
sure the Gutter is adjusted to zero if you want even spacing on both
sides of the document.

-Jim

 

[CyberTaz]

Is this happening in just the one document? A statement in one of your
earlier messages suggest that new documents are OK... How about other older
ones? If it's just this one document it very much sounds to me like the file
is corrupt. Before doing anything to correct it make sure you have a backup
copy [or 2 ]. Document corruption can be caused by a number of factors, &
continuous editing of files containing section breaks where page layout
varies is one of them. It is even more likely if Track Changes has been used
in such a document as a ongoing process.

If you have been using Track Changes turn the feature OFF in the file copy
you will attempt to recover. Accept/Reject all changes & delete all
comments, then see the options here for 'uncorrupting':

http://word.mvps.org/Mac/DocumentCorruption.html

I'd suggest that you use Procedure #2 first. If that doesn't resolve it try
Procedure #1 followed by Procedure #4 if #1 doesn't get it fixed.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

Hi there,
Thanks for your tip. I do have the gutter at 0.
All margins are showing 1". Do you have any other ideas ?
Thank you,
Sarah

I am writing a document in Word, that is 150 pages long.
I have my margins all set at 1", yet for the whole document, the page

[quoted text clipped - 21 lines]

Thanks for your help in advance !
Sarah

Hi Sarah,

I'm wondering if perhaps there is a large "gutter" setting for your
document. The "gutter" is some extra room to the side of the margin so
that if a document is bound like a book or magazine, there is some extra
space for the binding.

Try using the Format menu and choose Document. On the Margins tab, make
sure the Gutter is adjusted to zero if you want even spacing on both
sides of the document.

-Jim