Shrinking m Pages to n Pages

[Norman Zhang]

Hi,

In Excel I can auto-shrink or expand m pages of text into n pages. How
do I do it in Word?

Regards,
Norman Zhang

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You might want to post this in an Excel NG; this one is for Word.

 

[Norman Zhang]

You might want to post this in an Excel NG; this one is for Word.

I'm looking for this feature in Word. I used to able to do it in
WordPerfect too. I have 3 pages + 1 extra line on 4th pages. I think
there's an option that allows me to autofit them into 3 pages.

 

[Luc]

Norman,
Go to Print Preview, on the toolbar there is a button which will let you
shrink (fit to). Be aware that Word will decrease the point size of your
document text to accomodate. So it is not a good idea when you have too much
text on that last page.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Sorry, I must have been really tired when I (mis)read your message; see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/FitCopy.htm for a variety of
approaches.

 

[Charles Kenyon]

You don't automatically. You can adjust font size and spacing,
interparagraph spacing and margins.
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Charles Kenyon

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[Chuck Davis]

Also, you may be able to adjust your page margins (reduce from 1 inch to .7
inch)

 

[Norman Zhang]

Sorry, I must have been really tired when I (mis)read your message; see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/FitCopy.htm for a variety of
approaches.

Thanks for URL. I seem to recall Word's "Shrink to Fit" feature used to
support shrinking m pages to n, for m >= 2 and n >= 1, not just m = 2
and n = 1... Or is that from WordPerfect?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

I don't think it's ever claimed to do anything different in Word, but I've
not really experimented with it much since it's so arbitrary and
irreversible (I prefer to remain in complete control of my formatting).