Same text width in Landscape and Portrait

[Raphael Goubet]

Hi,

I'm having a very strange behavior in Word: if I create a new section
with a page break in one of my documents, and I change this new
section to landscape, it keeps the same text width as in the portrait
orientation (text boundaries do not expand according to the new
orientation). Still, margins are correct, and the left margin is
definitely not as wide of the space between the left text boundary and
the left border of the page.

I have this problem in a document created in Word 97, both in Word 97
and XP. However, I can't reproduce it with a document created in Word
WP.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Raph

 

[Stefan Blom]

Maybe the document is formatted with either a line break (SHIFT+ENTER)
or a paragraph break (ENTER) after each line of text? Click the ¶
button on the Standard toolbar, which displays nonprinting characters.
What displays after each line of text? If it is the paragraph mark (¶)
then each line is formatted as a single paragraph; if it's an arrow,
then each line is formatted with a line break. For more information
about getting rid of these, see:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/CleanWebText.htm

For more information about nonprinting characters, see:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/NonPrintChars.htm