Label/table 'margins' look wrong until print preview

[Caroline Miller]

Following noticed particularly in labels and
documents 'in' tables with small top margins.
Create a labels document with table/margins as required.
Looks fine.
Save close the document.
Open the document.
The margins look wrong - pushed down (if the user changes
something and saves like this it stays wrong)
Print Preview and the margins adjust to how they should
be.
Close print preview and your doc is fine again (printing
has same effect)
It looks like a paragraph mark is displayed in the header
when doc first opens, but this disappears and margin
moves back when print preview or print used.

Hopefully someone can help with a way to stop this
happening.

Thanks
Caroline

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You probably have nonprinting characters displayed (see
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm), which would
make the difference between Print Preview and other views. But if you're
seeing a paragraph mark in the header in Word 2002, you may be in trouble.
If you ever touch the header of Normal.dot in Word 2002, you create a header
that can't be removed, and this will mess up the alignment of labels unless
you set the header margin to 0", which you certainly don't want for most
documents.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word
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