Extending Ruler in Word

[george]

I have recently acquired a Mac G4. When I access word document, the
available writing area is quite small. I have extended this area by
dragging out the horizontal ruler and using the full screen option.
When I type my document everything is fine till I look at "print
preview" and my document is cut off at the edges, to what appears to
be the original ruler settings. If I try to print I get the error
message "the document is outside the printable area" Is there a way
that I can use more of the screen and still be within a printable
area?
BTW the mac is NOT connected directly to a printer (I save my work
from the Mac and then upload it onto a PC which is attached to a
printer)

 

[Michel Bintener]

Hi George,
your post is slightly confusing, and I'm not sure if I'm getting everything
you're saying, but hopefully, some of the stuff I'm going to say will help
you. You have to understand that there is a difference between what you see
on your screen and what comes out of your printer. I assume that you are
working in the page layout view (which is more or less WYSIWYG), and that
you dragged the rulers you could see in that view as far as possible so as
to create more space. By doing this, you were modifying the document's
margins; most printers however need to print with borders, and by reducing
your margins, you moved your text outside of the printable area your printer
can handle. To learn more about this, read this article on the Word MVP
website: http://www.word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/BottomsDontPrint.htm. See
if you can find out how large the printable area is, and change your
document accordingly, under Format>Document. If you're not really sure,
you'd better stick to Word's default settings, which should be pretty safe.

As for your question about how to make more use of the screen: again, it
depends on what exactly you mean. If you mean that you want to be able to
see more of your text when working on it, I'd suggest you switch to normal
view (View>Normal), where you will see more of your text. If the simple
normal view is still not enough for you, you can set the text to wrap to the
window, so you can see even more of your text. To do this, go to
Preferences>View, section "Window", and tick the checkbox that says "Wrap to
window". Your text will now wrap to the window, so if you change your window
size, your text will wrap accordingly. And additionally, you can use the
fullscreen view to get rid of the toolbars if you don't plan to use them.
Again, I hope I got what you meant, and I hope this was of some use for you.

Michel

 

[golstein]

Hi George,
your post is slightly confusing, and I'm not sure if I'm getting everything
you're saying, but hopefully, some of the stuff I'm going to say will help
you. You have to understand that there is a difference between what you see
on your screen and what comes out of your printer. I assume that you are
working in the page layout view (which is more or less WYSIWYG), and that
you dragged the rulers you could see in that view as far as possible so as
to create more space. By doing this, you were modifying the document's
margins; most printers however need to print with borders, and by reducing
your margins, you moved your text outside of the printable area your printer
can handle. To learn more about this, read this article on the Word MVP
website:

http://www.word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting/BottomsDontPrint.htm. See