Saving just the text page

[Eric Wiebe]

Something changed recently whereby instead of just the white 8.5x11 frame of
the text document being saved, all of the attendant task bars and toolbars
and salad bars - everything surrounding the actual page is saved as well, and
I don't know what secret lever I pulled to incur this intrusion. Please help
if you can.

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

"Saved" where/how? When you save a Word document and open it in Word,
you get all the bars (is there an open bar as well as a salad bar?).
Maybe you've been viewing your document in Print Preview? If you
"print" it as a pdf, the next time you open it it'll open in Adobe
Reader (most likely) and not have the Word bars, but the (considerably
more limited) Reader bars.

 

[Eric Wiebe]

Works fine printing, but sending it in an email automatically includes all
the extraneous borders, bars and beige background.

 

[Peter T. Daniels]

Not really ... if you send someone a Word file, they read it by
opening it in Word, so what they're seeing is _their_ copy of Word.
(And, of course, they can change it however they want.)

If you want to send just a document for someone to look at, save it as
a pdf and send that instead.