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LMcIntire
Nov 16, 2022Copper Contributor
Problem with formatting/columns/error code that won't go away
I'm getting this when I try to squeeze in my margins. "Increasing left margin causes first column to become too narrow in some sections having unevenly spaced columns." I've tried all the tricks I ...
LMcIntire
Nov 18, 2022Copper Contributor
I’m sorry, the measurement i gave you were inches, by the way.
Nov 18, 2022
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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- LMcIntireNov 18, 2022Copper ContributorI 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…
- Nov 18, 2022
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.
- LMcIntireNov 18, 2022Copper ContributorDefinitely! Looks SO much better! It’ll take me hours to fix this, and you’d think they’d do a better job of providing files that are more usable to save money in art charges… oh well. Thank you so much for all your help!