simple payge layout quesion

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Andrew Kennard

Hi all

Just curious

What is the purpose of allowing the overall margins in page setup to be a
negative value ?

Thanks in advance

Andrew
 
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Jay Freedman

I don't know how you're getting that to work. When I try it (Word 2003), I
get a message box that says 'The measurement must be between 0" and 22".'

The *paragraph indents* can be set to negative values, even to the point of
letting the text run off the page; but the page margins can't do that.

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Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
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Suzanne S. Barnhill

In most versions of Word a negative value for the top or bottom page margin
makes it absolute (so it is not affected by the size of the header/footer).
This is not exactly intuitive, but is a Word convention. Negative values are
not accepted for side margins.
 
J

Jay Freedman

Now that you mention it, I did know that once upon a time. I think I last
used it when I still had Word 6.0.
 
A

Andrew Kennard

Thanks for the feed back

I was using Word 2000 which allows negative top and bottom margins and I
just wondered why
 
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