section breaks, orientation and margins

[Guest]

Hello,

I hope anyone can help me.
I am working on a report whcih has 3 sections. The first without a header (front page). The second has a header and is portrait oriented.
The third section has a header (different from the second) and is landscape oriented.
Now i want to add a fourth section at the end of the document with the same header as the third section but portrait oriented. When i try to do that i get an error that some of the margins etc. are too large for the page. I cannot find a way to solve this problem.

Please help me.

 

[Jean-Guy Marcil]

Bonjour,

Dans son message, < Michel Offringa > écrivait :
In this message, < Michel Offringa > wrote:

|| Hello,
||
|| I hope anyone can help me.
|| I am working on a report whcih has 3 sections. The first without a header
(front page). The
|| second has a header and is portrait oriented.
|| The third section has a header (different from the second) and is
landscape oriented.
|| Now i want to add a fourth section at the end of the document with the
same header as the third
|| section but portrait oriented. When i try to do that i get an error that
some of the margins
|| etc. are too large for the page. I cannot find a way to solve this
problem.
||

How are you creating the fourth section and at which point during that
creation process do you get the error message? What Word version?
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Salut!
_______________________________________
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Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org

 

[Guest]

I am creating the fourth section with Insert/Break/Section-Next Page.
I get the error message when i try to change the orientation from Landscape to Portrait (even after changing the right margins etc.).
I use Word 2002 SP-2.

 

[Guest]

If i copy a portrait oriented section break (next page) from another part of the report to the end the pages i want changed from landscape to portrait are changed. But.....an extra (landscape oriented) page is added which i dont want.

Copying a continuous section break doesnt work either.

Can someone please help me ???

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/WorkWithSections.htm

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If i copy a portrait oriented section break (next page) from another part

of the report to the end the pages i want changed from landscape to portrait
are changed. But.....an extra (landscape oriented) page is added which i
dont want.

 

[Guest]

I looked to the 'Working with sections' part but there was no helpfull information for me (or is there ?).
Please also look at all of my previous messages in this thread.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

In such cases, however, it's easier to use Insert | File to insert the old
document into a fresh document based on the template containing the styles,
especially if the new document format includes different margins,
header/footer, etc.

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I looked to the 'Working with sections' part but there was no helpfull

information for me (or is there ?).

 

[Guest]

I have exactly the same problem as Michel. Have ALREADY tried whatever was
offered by others in thread, Nothing works. The last Landscape page just
wont go away. Deleting the section break, automatically changes the previous
portrait section to landscpae. Attempts to change it back to portrait are
met with error message Michel mentioned. Can somebidy help??? PLease??

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

What happens if you change the last, Landscape section to Portrait before
deleting the section break? Also, have you gone to Format | Columns and
clicked on the One button?

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[Guest]

I am not working with sections....just a new word document. When I try to
change the orientation from Landscape to Portrait, I get messge"Increasing
right margin causes las column to become too narrow in some sections having
unevenly spaced columns....."

I have tried everything suggested here and I am still at a loss. Changing
margins doesn't work. Every document I open and created is in landscape. I
NEED PORTRAIT. What do I do? Please Help me.

 

[Guest]

Is this a glitch of Word 2003 and is there a Patch or some kind of "fix".
Thanks again, Mamatoots

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

In that case, go to Format | Columns and click on the preset labeled One
(this is different from just selecting 1 as the number of columns). If that
corrects the issue in the present document, then you will need to make the
same change in Normal.dot (see
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/BlankDocNotBlank.htm).

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[Guest]

The Format/columns worked and am able to work now. Thank you. I did try to
follow the directions regarding Normal.dot but was unable to do so.....found
no files for normal.dot. Found a normal.bin and normal.fmt. Not very
experienced with computers and just quit....I know, you can't hurt
it...believe me when I say I can tear up a ball bearing! I have windows XP
and Word 2003-if you could "walk" me thru it, I'd be eternally grateful. B

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

The referenced article will walk you through finding and editing Normal.dot.

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