Re: How to create a custom built-in paper size?

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

You can't do this in Word. You can create a template for a 3x5 card, but
there's no guarantee it will feed properly. Depending on your printer, you
may have a tab in the printer Properties (accessed from Windows Control
Panel rather than through Word's Print dialog) that allows you to define new
paper sizes.

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

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

To your first question, yes. You can also access the printer Properties from
Word's Print dialog, but sometimes there will not be as many tabs (what I
get from Word represents the Printing Preferences subdialog from the overall
printer Properties, with no way to access the rest).

The paper sizes listed on the Paper tab of the Page Setup dialog are
provided by your printer driver and will vary from printer to printer. If
you were able to create a new size in the printer driver, it would show up
here. "Custom" is usually shown when you change the measurements from one of
the built-in sizes.

You asked about creating a new "built-in" size, and the only way to do that
(if possible) is through the printer Properties. Mostly it will be only
high-end laser printers that offer this ability. For example, my LaserJet
4100, in Advanced | Printing Defaults | Paper has a size selector with a
Custom... button that allows me to add a new size (though I don't know why
I'd need to, as it already provides a couple of dozen built-in sizes!).

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