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Seriously annoying MS Word problem here... by ZrednaZ on 10-23-2005 at 02:37 PM
Hey there.
My mom's currently doing a 60 page report in MS Word which looks fine on screen, but when she prints it every darn page is shrinked, so that they only use about 60% of the space available on the A4 page.
I've tried following MS Word's built-in help; it advises me to select File--> Print --> Zoom section --> Scale to paper --> A4
when printing, but this only moves the shrinked text down to the center of the page instead of the upper left corner.
I'm tempted to just copy and paste the whole thing into a fresh document without transferring the formatting properties which must be causing this, but that would mean a loss of many hours of formatting work (mom says)...
Any ideas? 
RE: Seriously annoying MS Word problem here... by Stigmata on 10-23-2005 at 02:38 PM
File -> Page Setup/Print Setup
it should be there somewhere
RE: Seriously annoying MS Word problem here... by ZrednaZ on 10-23-2005 at 02:51 PM
I think those settings are correct:
View them here
RE: Seriously annoying MS Word problem here... by Jimcando on 10-23-2005 at 04:11 PM
quote:If you copy + paste it, it should still retain it's formatting.
Originally posted by ZrednaZ
I'm tempted to just copy and paste the whole thing into a fresh document without transferring the formatting properties which must be causing this, but that would mean a loss of many hours of formatting work (mom says)...
RE: Seriously annoying MS Word problem here... by Ahmad on 10-23-2005 at 04:14 PM
Well, I can't read Danish.. but, the problem should be your margins, make them smaller.
RE: Seriously annoying MS Word problem here... by mwe99 on 10-23-2005 at 05:20 PM
is it just word?
check in printer settings
RE: RE: Seriously annoying MS Word problem here... by ZrednaZ on 10-24-2005 at 10:55 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Ahmad
Well, I can't read Danish.. but, the problem should be your margins, make them smaller.
I wound up fixing the problem by painstakingly rebuilding the document from scratch by copying plain text from the 'malfunctioning' document and pasting it in, then resetting the fonts and so on.
Maybe resizing the margins would have fixed it, though. I didn't try fiddling that much with them before I.. well.. gave up and started from scratch.