Shifting Margins

J

Jon Andrews

I have this problem sporadically, I print a document and
I get the error message "the margins of section "n" are
outside the printable areas of the page. Do you want to
continue? If I say yes, the document prints but the
whole document is to the right of what it should be on
the page and part is off the page. If I say no, it
quits. Word will ask if it should fix the margins, if I
say yes, it always makes the bottom margin 2.67"

The only work around I have come up with is to exist Word
and Outlook if it is running and re-open the document.
This will work, but it is a little cumbersome. Does
anyone know of another fix?
 
R

Robert Reeves

I have the same problem -- Page layout tells me some of
the document is outside of the printable area, and offers
to fix it. If I say yes it resets the bottom margin to
2.67" for no discernable reason! I have gotten around it
by forcing the page setup margins to 1" all around, and
under File->Print, setting the printer paper size to A4.
This seems to trick it into printing correctly, but we
shouldn't have to do this. Now I know I'm not the only
one this is happening to -- Hello Microsoft?!
 
S

Susan

-----Original Message-----
I have this problem sporadically, I print a document and
I get the error message "the margins of section "n" are
outside the printable areas of the page. Do you want to
continue? If I say yes, the document prints but the
whole document is to the right of what it should be on
the page and part is off the page. If I say no, it
quits. Word will ask if it should fix the margins, if I
say yes, it always makes the bottom margin 2.67"

The only work around I have come up with is to exist Word
and Outlook if it is running and re-open the document.
This will work, but it is a little cumbersome. Does
anyone know of another fix?
Click to expand...

This problem has been happening in our computer lab for
about a year with both 2000 and XP. The bottom margin for
no apparent reason defaults to 2.67. I sometimes am able
to close word and when we reopen the bottom margin will
stick to 1" Other times we have to save to floppy, switch
computers to get it to work, and as a last resort we open
the document in WordPerfect. I would like to report this
apparent software glitch to Microsoft, but don't know how.
 
A

Alex Smith

I have a similar problem printing to index cards(4x6) in landscape layout.

Imagine on the physical index card, for the return address(picture an
envelop) section per se, I want a date to print there. In the delivery
address section per se, I want a delivery address to print there.

When I attempt to print to the index card(via a mail merged document), I get
a message stating the margins are outside of a printable area of the page.

The document prints but the whole document is to the right of what it should
be on the index card. This same mail merge document worked fine until MS
Office was upgraded from version 97 to 2000(SP3) on that PC.

Thus, I set the left margin to zero in an attempt to rectify the issue.
This only moved the data over slightly to the left.
I still have a big indent on the left(e.i. the document prints but the whole
document is to the right of what it should be on the index card).

Does anyone have a fix?
 
Top