wacky page size

[dan_aviv]

Hello all.
I have been happily working on a document in Word 2004 for Mac ... all
seems to going as usual with the default margins set, etc. - but
suddenly, the page has expanded so a regular 8.5x11 page now spreads
out to something like 11x11. This squarish page appears in page
preview as well as the mini-preview when I set to print... and the
document when printed reduced my 12 pt font to something like 8 pt and
crammed the whole page into the upper left hand corner.
I have checked to see if the paper setting is correct - it is. 8.5 x
11.
I have opened a new file - the page size appears ok - then inserted the
old file only to discover that after a minute or two, the page size
"squares off" again.
HELP!

dma

 

[Daiya Mitchell]

I don't know about the 11x11 appearance--but shrunken print and crammed into
upper left corner sounds like Word thinks it is supposed to be saving space
to print Track Changes and Comments in the margin.

Word has a tendency to do this accidentally, though I thought it had been
fixed in one of the updates. I think before that the workaround was to make
sure that you are neither printing nor viewing hidden text in Preferences,
and, of course, not printing Track Changes. To make sure you are not
printing Track Changes, change the Copies & Pages menu in the Print dialog
to Microsoft Word, and make sure that the Print What setting is just
"document", and not anything about "markup." (Markup is Tracked Changes and
Comments)

Hope that helps,

 

[CyberTaz]

If Daiya's suggestions don't work - and you didn't do it this way the first
time - try again to paste the funky doc into a new blank doc, *but* only
copy all but the last ¶ (Cmd+A, Shift+LeftArrow, Cmd+C is as easy as any).
If you copied all *including* that last marker you copied the corruption
over too.

If that still doesn't do the trick, it's possible you're dealing with a
corrupt printer driver -- you might check for an updated version or delete &
reinstall a fresh copy even if yours is current.