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Word 2010 Move Document formatting to a New Document Of a Different Size
I am writing a book and going to use an online printing company to print out a small number of copies. Anyway I wrote the book using Word 2010 on letter size paper with 1" margins , header, footers etc...
The company that I will be using stated they need the book on a 6" x 9" paper size with .5" margins.
I created a new document with a custom page size and margins and copied an pasted the content and all of my formatting was messed up. Page numbering, text off center etc...
How can I move my text to their size standards without having to retype everything... I even tried OpenOffice and had the same result.
Thank you in advacned
The company that I will be using stated they need the book on a 6" x 9" paper size with .5" margins.
I created a new document with a custom page size and margins and copied an pasted the content and all of my formatting was messed up. Page numbering, text off center etc...
How can I move my text to their size standards without having to retype everything... I even tried OpenOffice and had the same result.
Thank you in advacned
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compdigit44
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Thanks for the reply... I am not the best in Word .. LOL but will try to suggestion and let you know me results ASAP.
It's not a guaranteed fix, but it does avoid a few possible problems so we can start at a better place.
ASKER
I tried what you suggested. I saved my document with the new paper size and margins, closed and reopened it and all seemed well at first but.... When I started to scroll down and check other pages ,I noticed the page size was the old size I had. When I set the page and margin size I made sure to select "Whole Document"
Sounds strange. I can't reproduce that. Perhaps you had better do it your way if it works better.
Can you describe the first problem that you see with the reformatted document?
Can you describe the first problem that you see with the reformatted document?
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Actually I might have found something.
I selected the whole document then went to page setup and changed my page and margin settings , saved it and this time it seems to have carried over to all pages... I am still checking everything but so far it looks good.
I selected the whole document then went to page setup and changed my page and margin settings , saved it and this time it seems to have carried over to all pages... I am still checking everything but so far it looks good.
That's good to hear.
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Bad News... I checked more pages and the same problem is back where my old page size and margins sizes are present.
As a experiment I created a new document with the 6 x9 page size, mirrored margins and .5 inches margin and started to type some text. As soon as I enabled footers the problems starts... Automatically bumps text 6 - 10 lines from its original position also I got an error when opening the footer stating "Microsoft | Error! No text of specified style in document"....
Thoughts????
As a experiment I created a new document with the 6 x9 page size, mirrored margins and .5 inches margin and started to type some text. As soon as I enabled footers the problems starts... Automatically bumps text 6 - 10 lines from its original position also I got an error when opening the footer stating "Microsoft | Error! No text of specified style in document"....
Thoughts????