Cannot insert more than one A3 section in document

[swimmer]

I successfully changed the page setup to A3 in one section of my Word
document, but Word will not let me insert a subsequent A3 section further
down the document. I get the message "The settings you chose for the left and
right margins, column spacing, or paragraph indents are too large for the
page width insome sections", but this is not true and no combination of
changes works. There is no option to "fix" or "ignore", so it becomes a dead
end.

I have tried all different margins, columns, paragraph settings, printer
settings, page orientation, but cannot find the solution.
Any help for this?

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Go to Format | Columns, make sure "Whole document" is selected under "Apply
to," and click on the preset picture for One, then OK.

 

[swimmer]

Thank you, this did work after some puzzling -- at first I could not find a
place where the column formatting gave the "Whole document" option (only
"This section" or "From this point forward"), but after about the 6th
location tried it worked. And then the page setup options did not include A3.
At first when I chose custom and 42 wide, 29.7 high (i.e. A3 landscape) I got
the same problem as before, but then I chose custom, 29.7 wide, 42 high, this
worked, and I was able to change the page orientation to landscape. Whew!!

And another note -- I had done a lot of trials with column width -- but did
not consider "whole document" because I already have A4 landscape pages for
one thing (column wider than 16 cm), and the column width of the landscape A3
page in the end would be 37 cm) -- and it isn't possible to omit the column
witdh from the dialogue box.

So it's very mysterious and to me illogical, but thank you for helping me
solve the problem!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

By "making sure," I meant that you should change the setting to say that,
not find a location where it already did! The point of the exercise is to
make Word check the "Equal column width" box, which it sometimes fails to
do, resulting in a column of a set width that is wider or narrower than
margin width, with disastrous results.

 

[swimmer]

As I said -- the option "Whole document" was simply not offered in the
location in question! Only "This section" or "This point forward" -- so your
instructions were not actually possible...
Furthermore, I did not "find a location where it already did" -- as I said,
I found a location where the option was actually offered so that I could
select it....