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From: mjkobb@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Michael J Kobb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Re: Word 4.0 Page Size PROBLEM
Summary: Fixed!
Keywords: Microsoft Word 4.0 PROBLEM Page Size
Message-ID: <5398@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Date: 28 Feb 91 19:15:24 GMT
References: <5379@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <88977@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb)
Organization: MIT Media Lab, Cambridge MA
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In article <88977@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Todd R Johnson <tj@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
>In article <5379@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> mjkobb@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael J Kobb) writes:
>>>Greetings,
>>>
>>>  I'm having a bit of a problem with Word 4.0.  For some reason, it seems to
>>>have decided that letter-sized pages (and legal, for that matter) are 7.625
>>>inches wide, not 8.5.
>>>
>
>	This happened to me.  It seemed to have something to do with
>the Word preferences file incorrectly storing the page size for the
>printer.  Try choosing another printer and then doing page setup, then
>choose your printer and do page setup again. You might also try
>trashing your preferences file. 

Well, I knew that trashing the prefs file would work, but I didn't want to do
that because I have extensively customized my menus.

The choosing of multiple printers, however, worked, and it's all better now.

Microsoft, consider this a bug report!

Thanks,
--Mike