Inability to change right margin/orientation

[Coua Early]

Good afternoon -

I've recently started running into the following message
when I try to change my right margin or change page
orientation (portrait to landscape and vice versa)in Word
XP: "Increasing right margin causes last column to
become too narrow in some sections having unevenly spaced
columns." Clicking "okay" just brings me back to page set
up; clicking "cancel" cancels the action and I can't get
past this window.

I'm not working in a table, this is a new document where
I've tried to change the right margin - it shows in page
set up that all margins are .9; however in the actual
document it appears more that the right margin is about
1.25 and I can't change it.

I've uninstalled word, posted all of the updates to it;
upgraded my acrobat (a friend thought there was an
incompatibility with Acrobat 4, so upgraded to 5 and
installed patches.)

Has anyone run into this? Any suggestions?

Thanks so much for ANY input.

Coua

 

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Coua,

Sounds more like newspaper type columns that the message is
referring to? Have you used Format/Columns in the document?

It's possible your Normal.dot template has been damaged. If
you rename that to NormalOld.dot, start up Word, then try in
a new document do you still have problems?

I've recently started running into the following message
when I try to change my right margin or change page
orientation (portrait to landscape and vice versa)in Word
XP: "Increasing right margin causes last column to
become too narrow in some sections having unevenly spaced
columns." Clicking "okay" just brings me back to page set
up; clicking "cancel" cancels the action and I can't get
past this window.

I'm not working in a table, this is a new document where
I've tried to change the right margin - it shows in page
set up that all margins are .9; however in the actual
document it appears more that the right margin is about
1.25 and I can't change it.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jan
24 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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[Coua Early]

Cindy,

Thanks for the tip - the message was coming up in new
documents with absolutely no formatting. I tried
renaming the normal.dot file and it appears to be working
fine now.

Thanks! I've struggled with this now for over a week.

Coua