Problems with Word

theGrinch

I have a word document that has been sent to me for completion.

I have opened it using word 2000.

There are supposed to be 15 columns to complete, but I can only see 13.5 (the half being one column that I can start writing in but after 5 words the text continues off screen).

When I print it out I have 13.5 columns - exactly what I can see on screen.

When I copy and paste what I have written into notepad, I can see everything including the column and a half I cannot otherwise see.

Any suggestions please would be very welcomed.

tyllwyd

My guess is that the problem is that the table is too big for an A4 page.


The first thing to try is to change the page layout from portrait to landscape. Does that let you see all the columns? If that works, but you still want the page to be portrait, you can resize the columns to make the table smaller, then change back to portrait.

theGrinch

tyllwyd wrote: »

My guess is that the problem is that the table is too big for an A4 page.


The first thing to try is to change the page layout from portrait to landscape. Does that let you see all the columns? If that works, but you still want the page to be portrait, you can resize the columns to make the table smaller, then change back to portrait.

thanks. thats gone some way to solve it but shifting everything over to the left - so I can see 13.75 columns

jbainbridge

Reduce the left and right margins to 0.1 or 0?

Nada666

Firstly, make a copy and work with a copy of the document to begin with.

Is there a "Distribute Columns" command in Word 2000? Hover over the top left of the table until the select all table crossfire appears and select the table. Then try Distribute Columns.

Or try AutoFit to Window

Also try changing view away from Print Layout to Draft (or whatever it was called in 2000)

One other thing to try is to copy and paste (select just the whole table) to a new Word document rather than Notepad. But (as Tyllwyd suggests) change the layout of the new document to landscape before you paste.

tyllwyd

It seems very strange that changing the orientation of the page only shows you an extra section of one column. I wonder if the problem is that you are viewing the page at the wrong size - have you tried zooming out?

zarithia

Have you tried just opening it in notepad or something first, and then copying and pasting it?