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Michel Offringa - 14 Jun 2004 14:48 GMT

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.

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Michel

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 15 Jun 2004 12:52 GMT

You will need to adjust the tab stops in the header of the fourth section so
that the text will fit within the potrait margins.

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> 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.

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 15 Jun 2004 14:48 GMT

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> 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.

The portrait page can't have the same header as a landscape page, as it would be too wide
(as Word is telling you). Word doesn't know how to "scale" if the page orientation
changes. You might be able to "share" some of the elements used in both sections, however.
For example, you could put plain text into custom document properties (File/Properties)
and insert DocProperty fields to display the information. If it needs to be changed,
change it in one place (File/Properties) and both headers will reflect it.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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