Microsoft KB Archive/141952

Embedded Mac Word Object has a Custom Page Size of 6&quot; x 9&quot;

PSS ID Number: Q141952 Article last modified on 05-16-1998

macintosh:4.0

MACINTOSH

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The information in this article applies to:

 Microsoft PowerPoint for the Macintosh, version 4.0 Microsoft Office for the Macintosh, versions 4.2, 4.2.1 == Microsoft Word for Macintosh, versions 6.0, 6.0.1 == 

= SYMPTOMS =

If you double-click an embedded Word document in a PowerPoint presentation and then click Page Setup on the File menu, you may find that the Word document has a custom page size of 6-by-9 inches.

This can occur even if the original Word document did not have a custom page size or had a page size that was different from 6-by-9 inches.

= CAUSE =

When you copy a table or text from Word and then paste it as an embedded object into another program that supports OLE, a Word document that contains the selected text is embedded into your destination file. If the text selected from the original Word document does not include the ending paragraph mark, a default custom paper size of 6-by-9 inches is used.

= RESOLUTION =

If you include the ending paragraph mark in your selection before you copy and paste it, the object behaves differently. The ending paragraph mark in Word is a special character. This paragraph mark stores the document’s margin information as well as some other formatting and page setup information. The embedded Word document will use the margin settings stored within the ending paragraph mark to determine the paper size of that object.

For example, if you have a custom paper size of 5-by-7 inches with the margins set at 1.5 inches for the left and right and 1 inch for the top and bottom, the embedded object will have a custom paper size of 2-by-5 inches. The width is calculated by subtracting the left and right margins, and the height is calculated by subtracting the top and bottom margins.

Additional query words: 4.00 6.00 macword 6x9 6“x9” 6 inches 9 inches mppt m_word small cropped chopped right bottom table ====================================================================== Keywords : kbinterop kbole Version : macintosh:4.0 Platform : MACINTOSH Hardware : MAC Issue type : kbprb ============================================================================= Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1998.