timoth...@gmail.com
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Jul 30, 2006, 5:00:53 AM7/30/06
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Please help! I'm experiencing a very strange problem with MS Word v11.2 for Mac:
I'm working on a normal document, with several tables and figures [a research paper], and after making a wrong keystroke, each page of my document suddenly had a group of nine six-pointed yellow stars just above the header as well as random chunks of black on the top left corner, the right side, and under the footer. It appears to be a page border of some kind, especially because all of the items are above or below the header/footer, or in the left and right margins.
When I go to remove the border [i.e. Format:Borders and Shading:Page Border], I am instantly given an error message, in a simple window, that reads:
The measurement must be between 1 pt and 31 pt. [OK]
Even when I attempt to alter the shading in a table cell, I get the same error.
If anyone has any information on how to resolve this issue, please help. All I need to do is:
- Delete the silly border
- Get permission to access the cell shading tab for tables
Please email me at timoth...@gmail.com, or reply to this post. Thank you very much!
John McGhie [MVP - Word and Word Macintosh]
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Jul 30, 2006, 9:10:45 PM7/30/06
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Hi
In Format:Borders and Shading:Page Border:Options, one or more of your border margins is greater than 31 pts.
If you go to Format:Borders and Shading:Page Border and choose Setting = "None" that will remove the page border and everything should come right.
Cheers
On 30/7/06 5:00 AM, in article 1154199653....@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com, "timoth...@gmail.com" wrote:
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John McGhie Microsoft MVP, Word and Word for Macintosh. Consultant Technical Writer Sydney, Australia +61 [0] 4 1209 1410
François
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Aug 17, 2006, 2:11:38 AM8/17/06
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To complement: To access Page Border tab, use say a blank document for to Format:Borders and Shading:Page Border tab. Close and return to your corrupted doc. Format:Borders will open on the appropriate tab.
bobm...@gmail.com
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Aug 19, 2015, 9:57:25 PM8/19/15
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Hi,
After searcing all over the web and reading all post I was not able to get rid of the error. Finally solvbed it the good old 'low level' editing mode via: 1. Save the word file as XML document 2. Open the XML file in an XML editor. 3. Search for the 'tag' called 'w:pgBorders' 4. Edit the header OR footer as per below.
BTW the one with w:top was causing the error for me. Just made is the same as bottom and problemo solved :-] [after 2 hours...]
HtH Bob
Discussion:
Error - The number must be between 1 and 600.
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I am working in Word 2000 on a Windows 2000 PC. I have a document that has been manually redlined and I am trying to clean up the font colors and strikethroughs but every time I select text and go into format/font I get the following error popup
"The number must be between 1 and 600." [click ok]
The font in this document is our standard font - Times new Roman, 11pt. and has either red or blue coloring and double underlines or strikethroughs. I am able to get around the color issue using the button on the toolbar and was able to use cut/paste special [Unformatted text] to clear the other font issues but I would like to know what causes the error because the work around is annoying.
thanks
Hi Holly,
You can scale text between 1% and 600% ["Format > Font > Character spacing"].
For some reason, Word seems to think that your text is scaled even more [or even less].
Something like that can happen with Word documents that have been created by other applications, which didn't do the job properly. Or the document might be slightly damaged.
The tip Terry gave you in another group [select the text, use Ctrl+Spacebar] might work, or select all text and set the scale to 100%, or, if the faulty scale setting is in a style definition, you might try pasting the text into a new document.
Regards, Klaus
I am working in Word 2000 on a Windows 2000 PC. I have a document that has been manually redlined and I am trying to clean up the font colors and strikethroughs but every time I select text and go into format/font I get the following error popup "The number must be between 1 and 600." [click ok] The font in this document is our standard font - Times new Roman, 11pt. and has either red or blue coloring and double underlines or strikethroughs. I am able to get around the color issue using the button on the toolbar and was able to use cut/paste special [Unformatted text] to clear the other font issues but I would like to know what causes the error because the work around is annoying. thanks
Thanks I will give this a try :-]
-Original Message- Hi Holly, You can scale text between 1% and 600% ["Format > Font >
Character
spacing"]. For some reason, Word seems to think that your text is
scaled even more [or
even less]. Something like that can happen with Word documents that
have been created by
other applications, which didn't do the job properly. Or the document might be slightly damaged. The tip Terry gave you in another group [select the text,
use Ctrl+Spacebar]
might work, or select all text and set the scale to 100%,
or, if the faulty
scale setting is in a style definition, you might try
pasting the text into
a new document. Regards, Klaus
I am working in Word 2000 on a Windows 2000 PC. I have a document that has been manually redlined and I am trying to clean up the font colors and strikethroughs but every time I select text and go into format/font I get the following error popup "The number must be between 1 and 600." [click ok] The font in this document is our standard font - Times new Roman, 11pt. and has either red or blue coloring and double underlines or strikethroughs. I am able to get around the color issue using the button on the toolbar and was able to use cut/paste special [Unformatted text] to clear the other font issues but I would like to know what causes the error because the work around is annoying. thanks
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