MicroSoft Word Help Req Please.

[Striker]

Silly question, I hope...

Most of the Publishing package I use, Quark, Illustrator, Indesign all allow me to select what size paper I want to print the job to without changing the document size I have set. I can have a document which is A5 and print onto A4, A2, A1 paper etc.

Now in Word, if my job is A5 and I select paper size of A4 it changes the job size to A4. How do you stop the margins on the being directly linked to the paper size?

Many thanks

 

[Caravanwalks]

Try in printer properties
Effects print on
Turn off scale to fit

Depends on you printer though

 

[TopBanana]

Yeah it's the printer settings you need to be changing rather than the 'page settings'.
If that fails then I use the trick of making a pdf (i.e. at A5) and then printing that at a different size (i.e. A4).

 

[Striker]

Tried the above but the only way of selecting paper size is in Page Setup, that applies to whatever printer I want to use. It changes size even if I tell it 100% scale.

What we need is a document size and page setup to act individually as in any prog designed by Adobe

 

[TopBanana]

With the HP printer I'm using I can set Word it to print on A4 or A3 no matter what page size it is by using the 'printer properties' option as Ian suggested - not sure why your setup can't do something similar? Weird.

 

[neil_g]

first off what version of word?

might be better off asking a mod to move this to the computer section, youll get more advice quicker.