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Problem with formatting/columns/error code that won't go away
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.
LMcIntire In the attached document, I used CTRL+A to select everything and then accessed the Page Setup>Columns dialog and clicked the checkbox for Equal column width so that it had a tick. Then it was possible to set the margins to the values that you specified. It will however and change the layout of those Sections of the document for which Uneven Columns had been used where a table should have been used.
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- I did the same thing, but Word would not allow me to change the margins and values… I tried importing and it did the same thing. Only placed the first 10-11 pages. Could there be something corrupt? I even tried copy and pasting all into a new Word doc from the original one then importing again. Still wouldn’t work. Not sure what InDesign is not liking about this file! Thank you for your help…
LMcIntire This is the first two pages of Schedule C in the original document
and this is how it should have been set up using a table rather than newspaper style columns
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The borders are optional, but were left in to show the arrangement.
Until you deal with issues like that, you cannot expect to get satisfactory results.
