WD97: "Margins Set Outside Printable Area of Page" (84647)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Word 97 for Windows
This article was previously published under Q84647

SYMPTOMS

If you set your document margins closer to the edge of the paper than your printer is capable of printing, Microsoft Word for Windows returns the following warning message for each copy you send to the printer:

One or more margins are set outside the printable area of the page. Choose the Fix button to increase the appropriate margins.

CAUSE

Most laser printers, such as the Hewlett-Packard (HP) LaserJet, cannot print closer to the edge of the paper than 0.25 inch. Some laser printers, such as the HP LaserJet Series II, require 0.5-inch margins. Most PostScript and dot-matrix printers have their own internal printer driver setting for margins.

WORKAROUND

When you receive the warning message, clicking the Fix button increases any margin in the unprintable region to the minimum margin setting.

MORE INFORMATION

To determine what the document margins can be set to, start WordPad in Windows from the Accessories group.

  1. On the File menu, click Page Setup.
  2. Set one of the margins to zero (0) and click OK.
  3. On the File menu, click Page Setup, and the margin that you set to zero(0) will display the minimum margin setting.
Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:9/7/2001
Keywords:kberrmsg kbprb kbprint kbualink97 KB84647
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