Page Setup May Not Apply to Whole Document or Other Sections

ID: Q82182

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SUMMARY

In Microsoft Word for Windows, if you change section formatting in the Page Setup dialog box and later try to reapply these settings using the Whole Document option or the This Point Forward option, the box containing the settings is cleared. To successfully apply the page setup formatting to subsequent sections or the whole document, you must first retype or re-select the settings. If you do not re-select the settings, Word does not apply the formatting to the designated sections in the Apply To box.

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

1. From the File menu, choose New, and choose the OK button to open a 

   new document based on NORMAL.DOT.
2. From the Insert menu, choose Break. Select Continuous in the 
   Section Break box, then choose the OK button.
3. Position the insertion point in the first section. From the File 
   menu (Format menu in Word 2.0), choose Page Setup.
4. Select the Margins option button.

5. Change the top margin from its current setting. For example, select 

   .50 for this setting. Verify that the Apply To box has This Section
   selected, and choose the OK button.
6. From the File menu (Format menu in Word 2.0), choose Page Setup. 
   Select Whole Document in the Apply To box.
The top margin setting is cleared. If you choose the OK button at this point, the .50 setting is NOT applied to the whole document. You must re-select .50 in the Top box or manually type the setting to apply this setting to the entire document.

Note: This behavior occurs in all three page setup categories (margins, size and orientation, and paper source settings).

KBCategory: kbusage KBSubcategory: kblayout Additional query words: 6.0 winword2 winword word6 2.0 2.0a 

Keywords          : kblayout 
Version           : 2.0 2.0a 2.0a-CD 2.0b 2.0c
Platform          : WINDOWS

Last Reviewed: February 6, 1998