Document misalignment

[Patrick Nash]

Have just finished the first draft of a book. On changing the Font from 14 to
12 and the Style from Courier New to Times New Roman, the width of the page
changed to half the original width. How can I reset the conditions and save
them in order to retrieve the original format. Am using Microsoft Word 2003.
Would be most grateful for help- this is very important to me.
Kind regards
Patrick

 

[John McGhie]

The width of the page is determined by the Document Margins. Look up
"margins" in the Help to see how to set them.

You have something else controlling the width of the lines.

Turn on your non-printing characters (Click Show/Hide until the paragraph
marks are visible) so you can see what you are doing.

Either the lines have hard returns at the end of them that you need to
remove, or you have set a column width, or you have the text in a table, or
you have set the document margins too narrow.

In Tools>Options>View turn on Text Boundaries so you can what you have, and
on the Table menu, turn on Show Gridlines.

Before you can fix this, you have to find the cause.

Cheers

Have just finished the first draft of a book. On changing the Font from 14 to
12 and the Style from Courier New to Times New Roman, the width of the page
changed to half the original width. How can I reset the conditions and save
them in order to retrieve the original format. Am using Microsoft Word 2003.
Would be most grateful for help- this is very important to me.
Kind regards
Patrick

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