can't change margins without changing pages

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BrinyBeach@aol.com - 23 Jan 2004 12:05 GMT

With Word 2000, even if I highlight just the text on a
page for which I want to have different margins than the
rest of the page, and choose "selected text," the selected
text gets put on a separate page. (I'm trying to write a
screenplay, which requires 1.25" left/right margins for
the narrative and 2.5" left/right margins for the
dialogue...all on the same page.) Please help me by
sending the answer to this problem to BrinyBeach@aol.com
and putting ANSWER in all caps in the subject line, so I
know it's not spam. THANKS!!!

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - DELETE UPPERCASE CHARACTERS FROM EMAIL ADDRESS - 23 Jan 2004 13:24 GMT

What you should do is set the left and right margins to 1.25" and define
paragraph styles for the narrative and for the dialog and format the style
for the dialog so that the paragraph indent is 1.25 for both the Left and
Right Indent. Then use the appropriate style for the text concerned. You
can simplify this by recording macros which you assign to the keyboard of
the action of invoking each of those styles.

See the article ?Creating a Template ? The Basics (Part I)? at:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/CreateATemplatePart1.htm

and ?Creating a Template (Part II)? at:

http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/CreateATemplatePart2.htm

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Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP

> With Word 2000, even if I highlight just the text on a
> page for which I want to have different margins than the
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> and putting ANSWER in all caps in the subject line, so I
> know it's not spam. THANKS!!!

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