Mixing Portrait and Landscape in a Doc

[MarkB]

Hi All,

Word 2000. Formatting some pages as portrait and some as landscape
works fine until I set columns in a landscape page. Then, in following
sections, even though I try to apply portrait "in this section only" and
even remove the columns, I get a message "settings are too large for the
page width in some sections." So I cannot use portrait orientation
following a section of landscape with columns. Since I can still add
portrait pages prior to the landscape section, I can still create the
document, but out of order. There must be a better way...

Thanks for any help!

-mb

[Mike Williams]

Mark

I just made up a document with a mix of landscape and portrait pages, and
columns in the landscape page. It worked for me - albeit in Word XP _but
I've not ahd this problem before.

Some suggestions
* In Normal view, delete any superfluous page/section breaks
* add the columns when in Print Layout view - I also zoomed out to Two
Pages, so I could see what I was doing

Mike

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[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

This problem comes from a bug with columns. When you use the Columns button
on the toolbar, the "Equal column width" box is not checked by default, so
when you change from multiple columns back to one, Word somehow gets
confused and gives you the error messages about margins. You can avoid this
by using the Format Columns dialog to set up columns (or at least be sure
the box is checked). Another thing that can cause problems is a section
break at the end of a paragraph with no paragraph break. Word won't let you
create a break this way (if you use Insert | Break | Next Page, say, at the
end of a paragraph, it will insert a paragraph break preceding the section
break), but it won't prevent you from deleting the paragraph mark, and I've
seen some very strange things happen on this account.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://www.mvps.org/word

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