How do I get margins to set accurately in a long document?

MaryG · External Since: Feb 07, 2007 Posts: 1

Page set-up works fine in a letter but I have a long A4 document of 200 pages
and I've set left and right at 2.5 cm plus a left gutter of 1cm 'in whole
document'. But Print View shows a wider right margin and also in a printed
page both margins are wider than I've specified.
Additionally, the page shows in Print View as a short page and prints with a
lot of space empty at the bottom.
I use Office 2003 and I've checked paragraphing is not indented. I have many
Section breaks.
What can I do? Or is it some kind of bug?
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Mary

Lene Fredborg · External Since: Nov 29, 2006 Posts: 562

The problem could be that you have set the paper size to _A4_ in the Page
Setup dialog box but that _Letter_ is selected in Print > Properties > Layout
tab > Advanced button > Paper/Output.

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"MaryG" wrote:

> Page set-up works fine in a letter but I have a long A4 document of 200 pages
> and I've set left and right at 2.5 cm plus a left gutter of 1cm 'in whole
> document'. But Print View shows a wider right margin and also in a printed
> page both margins are wider than I've specified.
> Additionally, the page shows in Print View as a short page and prints with a
> lot of space empty at the bottom.
> I use Office 2003 and I've checked paragraphing is not indented. I have many
> Section breaks.
> What can I do? Or is it some kind of bug?
> --
> Mary

Suzanne S. Barnhill · External Since: Sep 26, 2003 Posts: 24065

Most likely your document contains "markup" (tracked changes or comments),
and Word is allowing extra margin space for the "balloons."

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"MaryG" <MaryG.TakeThisOut@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:58709B5E-AFD9-498B-AAE4-368E696E9DF1@microsoft.com...
> Page set-up works fine in a letter but I have a long A4 document of 200
pages
> and I've set left and right at 2.5 cm plus a left gutter of 1cm 'in whole
> document'. But Print View shows a wider right margin and also in a printed
> page both margins are wider than I've specified.
> Additionally, the page shows in Print View as a short page and prints with
a
> lot of space empty at the bottom.
> I use Office 2003 and I've checked paragraphing is not indented. I have
many
> Section breaks.
> What can I do? Or is it some kind of bug?
> --
> Mary