Page width with a life of its own!

[Steve]

Help.

I've got a long document which is refusing to layout as A4. I've tried all
the obvious things. File/Page setup/apply to whole document etc.

What originally happened was, I adjusted the right margin via the ruler in
page layout view. (Note - NOT the right indent marker.) As I did so, the
width of the page increased. I can't get it back except by decreasing the
right margin to 5.5 cm.

If I cut and paste the document into a new document with the same template,
the same things happens.

I can remove the problem by pasting as unformatted text, but then that
leaves me with the problem of sentence by sentence reformatting 150,000
words. But I guess that shows the problem is something to do with character
formatting.

But what? Any suggestions gratefully appreciated!

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Open a new document and press Enter a couple of times. Then use Insert |
File to insert your document (which will insert the text without the final
paragraph mark). If the document contains more than one section, you may
need to remove section breaks before inserting.

 

[Word Heretic]

G'day "Steve" <[email protected]>,

Try a Maggie: copy n paste of everything except the last para mark in
each section to a new document.

Steve Hudson - Word Heretic
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