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Subject: Word 5.0a MArgins
From: Patrick E. Midden, pmidden@darwin.cc.nd.edu
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1992 06:11:19 GMT
In article <pmidden-041192010215@129.74.199.121> Patrick E. Midden,
pmidden@darwin.cc.nd.edu writes:
>I have noticed a problem with  margins in Word 5.0a.  They are not always
>observed by the program.  About once every two days I get a new user who
is
>has a paper that has the margins blown all to hell.  The text will extend
>up to two inches past the right margin on random lines.  Sometimes it
will
>be the entire paper, sometimes it will be one or two lines per
paragraph. 
>I have not seen a pattern yet.  Manually readjusting the margins using
the
>ruler usually fixes between 25%-90% of the problem.  
>
>This problem sometimes happened in Word 4.0? but was usually accompanied
by
>the position command and could be fixed that way.  I have not found a
>similar solution in Word 5.0.
>
>We are using Mac IIci's, ethernet, color and portrait monitors.
>
>Any suggestions??

Don't change the left and right paragraph indent markers.  Highlight the
whole
document, choose Paragraph... from the Format menu. Set left and right
indents
to 0 (you must type in the number).

Should solve the problem rather readily.  This has bee a "problem" from
Word 3
onward.

The margins in Word are there as guides.  What you set as the indents of
the 
paragraphs overrides the "margin" settings.

Jon