Microsoft KB Archive/41171

Right Margin Indicator Is Off After Setting Margins

PSS ID Number: Q41171 Article last modified on 11-02-1994

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The right margin indicator is sometimes at a different place than you specified.

For example, start Word and choose a printer driver for a Hewlett-Packard LaserJet. Set the Format Division Margins for 0 inch “left:” and “right:” and 8.5 inches “width:”. Notice that the right-margin indicator (the “]” symbol) in the ruler is on the 8. You would expect the right margin indicator to be on the 8.5 of the ruler.

In “show layout: Yes” mode or in normal edit mode with “show line breaks: Yes”, Word uses the unprintable region fields of the printer driver to calculate where the margin indicators in the ruler appear.

In this specific case, the combined left and right unprintable region of the LaserJet is .5 inch. As a result, the right margin indicator appears at the 8 mark on the ruler line.

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