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i use word a lot, but i usually don't have much reason to change page
sizes via the page setup menu.  

lately, however, i've been collecting submissions from colleagues in
europe.  when i receive the files, it appears that they are laid out
correctly for A4, but not correctly for "u.s. letter".  that is, the text
appears to almost run off the bottom of the printed page.  this is not
unexpected, since A4 apparently is the standard page size in europe and is
slightly larger.  what is unexpected, however, is that when i go to the
page setup dialog and explicitly set the page size to "us letter", nothing
changes.  the pages still come out such that they are almost running off
the bottom of the page, even though the top and bottom margins are set to
1.5" in the document layout dialog.

when i view them in either page layout view or in print preview, the
results look good - the printout is more or less centered othe page and
the margins appear to be correct.   

just as an experiment, i tried chaning the settings in the page layout
dialog to other sizes.  i tried "us legal", which is noticably longer. 
strangely, i noticed no change in the appearance of the document in the
page layout or print preview views.  

so it seems that what is happening is that my settings in the page layout
dialog are getting ignored completely and the document is always being
printed and viewed as though the page layout were set to A4, no matter
what i do. 

can anyone help me out? to be clear, what i want is to take a document
formatted for one size (A4), change the page size, and have it reflow to
fit the new size. 

i'm using word 6.0.1 and the "laserwriter 8" driver with desktop printing.

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David A. Duff
The MITRE Corporation
AI Technical Center
703-883-7731
duff@mitre.org