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In article <duff-0108961644260001@daved-mac.mitre.org>, duff@mitre.org
(David Duff) wrote:

> [...]
>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. 
>
> [...]

anwering my own question:

it seems that among the various non-standard and difficult to understand
changes that were made in the page setup dialog between versions 5 and 6
of word was a change in the meaning and behavior of the "custom page size"
item.  it seems that if a custom page size is entered, then this custom
size OVERRIDES page size setting from the menu.  this seems like an
absolutely *terrible* interface design mistake on microsoft's part.

so it turns out that it was definitely true that changes i was making to
the page size menu were having no effect at all.   when i hit the custom
page size button and then unchecked the little check box, things went back
to normal.

word6:  in a word, yuck!

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