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revronvegas - 11 May 2005 23:46 GMT

Just in the last 24 hours MS Word has been doing the following ... I change
the page set-up on a document to a two-column, landscape-oriented with 0.8"
margins. When I save the document (or print or just about any other action)
the page set-up reverts to the default settings and I lose the desired page
set-up.

I've tried soft-booting and hard-booting but neither is solving the problem.
None of the in-program nor on-line documentation has proven helpful. I just
want the program to follow my instructions.

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 13 May 2005 15:43 GMT

Hi =?Utf-8?B?cmV2cm9udmVnYXM=?=,

which version of Word is involved? Did you download or install anything
recently?

> Just in the last 24 hours MS Word has been doing the following ... I change
> the page set-up on a document to a two-column, landscape-oriented with 0.8"
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> None of the in-program nor on-line documentation has proven helpful. I just
> want the program to follow my instructions.

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

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revronvegas - 16 May 2005 22:11 GMT

Sorry for the tardy response ... I was out of town for several days.
1. From the Title page ... Word 2000 (9.0.6926 SP-e)
2. No new downloads or installs that I remember.
Thanks for the help.

> Hi =?Utf-8?B?cmV2cm9udmVnYXM=?=,
>
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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 20 May 2005 13:45 GMT

Hi =?Utf-8?B?cmV2cm9udmVnYXM=?=,

> 1. From the Title page ... Word 2000 (9.0.6926 SP-e)
> 2. No new downloads or installs that I remember.
>

Hmmm. Does this happen only with the one document, or with any new document you try
to create? (Trying to determine whether this is a damaged document)

If you try to set margins larger than .8" do you get anything different? (I'm
wondering whether it's reverting because it can't accept something you're
specifying)

> > which version of Word is involved? Did you download or install anything
> > recently?
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> > > None of the in-program nor on-line documentation has proven helpful. I just
> > > want the program to follow my instructions.

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revronvegas - 27 May 2005 01:01 GMT

Thank you for the input, Cindy. I did, in fact, load Roxio's "Drag-a-Disk",
Macromedia Flash, and MediaShout 2.0 in the past few weeks. Roxio was giving
me some problems largely because I have been one of those who worked off
floppies before and CD/RWs now. I have been afraid of hard drive crashes and
the loss of much, much important data.

So I started operating from the hard drive at the suggestion of one of my
friends (who always scratched his head about my CD/RW fetish) and our company
IT guys.

The page setup problem seems to be fixed. But you got me started in the
right direction.

Thanks.

> Hi =?Utf-8?B?cmV2cm9udmVnYXM=?=,
>
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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 30 May 2005 15:10 GMT

Hi =?Utf-8?B?cmV2cm9udmVnYXM=?=,

> largely because I have been one of those who worked off
> floppies before and CD/RWs now. I have been afraid of hard drive crashes and
> the loss of much, much important data.

Always a bad idea, when working with Word. This is because Word is creating,
writing to and reading from multiple "scratch" files when you edit a document.
And this doesn't always work too well when everything is going to/from
"removable media". You were actually courting exactly the problem you wanted to
avoid :-)

When Word is involved, the better approach is to work with the document on the
hard-drive, then save to your backup medium via Windows Explorer, once the file
has been closed.

> So I started operating from the hard drive at the suggestion of one of my
> friends

I'm so glad you listed to him/her :-)!

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

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