Microsoft KB Archive/290972

= WD2002: Changing Page Orientation or Paper Size Causes Error =

Article ID: 290972

Article Last Modified on 1/6/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 2002 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q290972



For a Microsoft Word 97 version of this article, see 167371.

For a Microsoft Word 2000 version of this article, see 220246.



SYMPTOMS
When you are working with a Word document formatted for columns, you may receive following error message:

Settings you chose for the left and right margins, column spacing, or paragraph indents are too large for the page width in some sections.

This behavior can occur when you do one of the following:
 * You change the page orientation from landscape to portrait

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 * You change the paper size of your document (for example, you change the paper size from Letter 8 1/2 x 11.0 to Executive 7 1/4 x 10 1/2).



CAUSE
When you click the Columns button on the Standard toolbar, the Equal column width option is not set. The Equal column width option forces Word to maintain the same width columns based on the size and orientation of the page. When this option is not set, Word may not recalculate the page layout information correctly when you change the orientation or page size.

NOTE: This problem does not occur when you use the Columns command on the Format menu. When you use the Columns command on the Format menu, the Equal column width option is set by default; therefore the page layout information is correctly changed when you change the orientation or page size.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, set the columns to an equal width. To do this, follow these steps:
 * 1) Click OK to close the error message described in the &quot;Symptoms&quot; section of this article.
 * 2) Click Cancel to close the Page Setup dialog box.
 * 3) On the Format menu, click Columns.
 * 4) Click to select the Equal column width check box, and then click OK.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

Additional query words: OfficeErrorMessages 10088

Keywords: kbbug kberrmsg kbfaq kbnofix KB290972

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