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Problem with formatting/columns/error code that won't go away
If that does not overcome the problem. upload a copy of it (click on Open Full Text Editor when you use the Reply facility) and we will investigate the problem.
Hi Doug, thank you for your suggestion. I had same problem similar problem with this error message "Increasing right margin causes last column to become too narrow in some sections having unevenly spaced columns. I followed your suggestion: leave Number of columns as 1 and then click on OK. thanks a million.
Doug_Robbins_Word_MVP Ah! Found it! Here's the file!
LMcIntire Beginning with Section 80 on Page 71, the document is set up with three "newspaper style" columns, with widths of 9.9 mm, 38.4 mm and 76.3 mm and it is because of that setup that you get that message when you try to adjust the margins.
Instead of those three "newspaper style" columns, a table should be used for that content.
I suspect that the document was created from a scanned image\pdf file as it is really quite a mess.
- I’m sorry, the measurement i gave you were inches, by the way.
Doug_Robbins_Word_MVPappears to be one column, but won't import correctly into InDesign. I tried a few more things, but still only drops in the first 10-11 pages and no farther, unless I move the margins out in the InDesign document, which doesn't help since I need to move the margins in and don't want to have to go through each page and move the text boxes in. Matter of fact, I started to try that and I got as far as page 10, and guess what? Everything past that disappeared! So weird. I'd love to attach the file but couldn't find "Open full text editor". 😞
