Word layout puzzle

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jim

A co-worker created a document from scratch. He initially modified page
setup to 1" margins top / bottom and 0.5"margins left / right in landscape.
The document has one long table nine pages long.

After OK'ing the Page Setup, he went back into page setup, and the margins
are ALL set back back to defaults. He can reset the margins, but every time
he goes back to page setup, it is reset to its defaults. Has anyone ever
seen anything like this before? The document was created in Office 2000;
however the same thing occurs in my Office 2003.

Solutions I've tried:
1) I can still open other documents just fine.
2) If I delete EVERYTHING in the document and save it, repeat the page setup
margin etc., close it and open it again and everything is still reset.
3) If I cut the entire table and paste it into a new document, the problem
still recurs.

BTW: I can't use Word help because Word displays the help in an incredibly
small font which is unreadable. Thanks Microsoft!!

My last ditch solution will be to save it as a text file and reformat the
entire document.
 
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BTW: I can't use Word help because Word displays the help in an incredibly
small font which is unreadable. Thanks Microsoft!!
Click to expand...

Here's something incredibly dumb that nobody tells you (as happens so often,
I stumbled across it by accident).

Open up Internet Explorer. Go to View>Text Size and make the Text Size
larger.

Now open up Word Help.

(Not that it will do you any good trying to figure out your margin
problem....)
 
J

jim

Son of a gun - that works for making the text readable. Thanks

I finally exported the document to RTF file and reimported and the problem
went away. If the file was corrupted, Word gave no indication. I'm saving
the file for posterity in the hopes of still figuring this one out.
 
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