Fix the box

• Find your printer's unprintable area
  
  Your printer manual may specify the unprintable areas. Inkjet printers, in particular, often have a large unprintable area at the bottom of the page.
  
  Here's a way to discover them for yourself in Word.
  
  
  1. Choose File>Page Setup>Margins tab. Change all four margin settings to 0". Choose OK.
     
     
  2. You're told that one or more margins are set outside the printable area of the page. Choose Fix.
     
     
  3. Word adjusts the margin settings to your printer's minimum values. Jot down your printer's settings for your future reference, then Cancel the dialog.
  
  
• Adjust the Page Border
  
  
  1. Set the insertion point on the page that's bordered, then choose Format>Borders and Shading> Page Border tab. Choose Options.
     
     
  2. At the Border and Shading Options dialog, note that the default settings are to have all four borders set to 24 pt (which is 1/3"), and to have Measure from: set to Edge of Page.
     
     
  3. To maintain the measurement from the edge of the page, yet move the borders in more toward the center, set the measurements for each of the four margins to 31 pt (the maximum allowed).
     
     For an alternative setting, set Measure from: to Text. Now the Margin settings measure outward from your text margins. You can set the Margin values anywhere from 0 pt to 31 pt.
     
     
  4. Click OK>OK. Use the Standard toolbar's Print Preview tool to evaluate your results.
  
  

Labels: Formatting, Printing, Tips, Troubleshoot

Microsoft to the rescue

Guided Help is a program that you can download from some Microsoft Knowledge Base articles. Depending on the task, Guided Help can automatically perform the task that is described in the article, or Guided Help can guide you through the steps to perform the task yourself.

Guided Help performs the steps by interacting directly with the Microsoft Windows user interface, or by using functions that are included with Guided Help. For steps that interact with the user interface, you see the steps occur on the screen.

For some tasks, you can select to run Guided Help in one of the following ways.

• Do it automatically: The whole task is automatically completed while you watch. You might be prompted for input if input is required.
  
• Show me step-by-step: Guided Help points on the screen to where you must click or type to perform the task.

Labels: Addin, Tips, Troubleshoot

Protect your layout

• You open the document from a Microsoft Outlook e-mail attachment.
  
• The Allow starting in Reading Layout option is turned on in Word.
  
• The table of contents in the document is three or more pages long.
  
• The document was saved in the page layout view.

1. Start Word.
   
2. On the Tools menu, click Options.
   
3. Click the General tab, click to clear the Allow starting in Reading Layout check box, and then click OK.

1. Start Word.
   
2. On the Tools menu, click Options.
   
3. Click the View tab, click to deselect the All check box under Formatting marks, and then click OK.

1. Open the Word document.
   
2. Select the table of contents in the document, and then press F9 to update all the page numbers.

Labels: General, Troubleshoot

Office 2003 redo

1. 1. Start any Office 2003 program.
   
2. On Help menu, click Detect and Repair.
   
   
   
   
3. Click to select the Discard my customized settings and restore default settings check box, and then click Start.
   
4. Quit the application, and then click Ignore.
   
5. Click OK when you receive the following message:
   Reset of setting to default succeed.

Labels: Tips, Troubleshoot