Microsoft KB Archive/64016

Print Reduction Causes Single Column of Characters

PSS ID Number: Q64016 Article last modified on 03-07-1997

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When you are printing to a laser printer from versions 4.0 or 5.0 of Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, and you reduce a page by typing a number less than 100 in the Reduce Or Enlarge box in the Page Setup dialog box, you increase the printable area of a document. This area is then scaled to fit on the selected sheet of paper when the file is printed.

As the printable area is increased, the right indent also increases proportionally. When the percent of reduction increases the printable area to a point where the right indent extends beyond the 22.75-inch maximum ruler measurement that Microsoft Word allows, the text of the document is reformatted to be a column of single characters extending the length of the file.

To return the document to normal format, do ONE of the following:

  From the Format menu, choose Paragraph and set the right indent to 0 (zero). -or-   Increase the Reduce Or Enlarge setting in the Page Setup dialog box until the format returns to normal. 

KBCategory: kbprint KBSubcategory: Additional reference words: 4.00 5.00 macword macword5 ====================================================================== ============================================================================= Copyright Microsoft Corporation 1997.