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can't set page margins for, or number, all pages

Asked by lesliek

1. I have a multi-page document. I want the top and bottom margins for all pages to be 2.5cm. They are for the first few pages. Then they switch to 1.27 and 3.03 respectively. When I go to the first wrong page, I can set the margins to 2.5 and the page then looks right on the screen. However, if I then save and re-open the document, the margins are back to 1.27 and 3.03 for the page whose margins I've just tried to change.

2. Same document. I try to paginate it. The first few pages work. Then I get to a page that's after a page break I've inserted. It and the succeeding pages aren't paginated.

I'd be grateful for help in solving these two problems.

Thank you,

Leslie

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Craig Huffstetler (xq) said : 		#1

Do you have the correct printer setup in your system settings? This sounds like it may be more of an issue with the correct printer driver, or open source, driver installed and working correctly.

Most of this will be found in System > Administration > Printing

You can also read:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Printers

On how to verify this and/or tweak the settings you already have installed. What printer/model/make do you have? What printer do you have installed currently?

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lesliek (lesliek) said : 		#2

Thanks for your reply, Craig.

I haven't changed anything to do with my printer (a Lexmark E120n) in ages.

Perhaps I should've added this originally: the document's one I've been editing for a long time, but the margin problem just started appearing during this morning's edits. Also, pagination worked and continues to work for every page up to the page that starts after the page break.

Thanks again,

Leslie

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lesliek (lesliek) said : 		#3

FURTHER INFORMATION:

I've just noticed that the "Page Style" for the first page that's giving me margin problems doesn't say "Default". It says "Convert 1".

That must be the source of the problem.

How do I change the Page Style back to Default? I tried to do that in the "Organiser" tab, but it didn't work.

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lesliek (lesliek) said : 		#4

FURTHER INFORMATION:

Well, maybe this is solved. I found that if I went to Styles and Formatting and clicked on the fourth icon from the left, I could then switch from Convert 1 to Default.

However, on at least one page, if I ran the cursor down the page, sometimes the style would say Default and sometimes Convert 1. I seem to have changed the latter to the former wherever it occurred, but I'm not positive.

I'd be very grateful if anyone could tell me how this has happened so I can avoid it in the future.

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Konstantin Konev (skfd) said : 		#5

lesliek, if you manually edit the font, margins, etc. without styles application — you could try to select all (Ctrl+A) and set style to Default. Use F11 key, it will show "Styles menu".
Be careful not to save changes before you sure it has not break layout.

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lesliek (lesliek) said : 		#6

Thanks for your reply, Konstantin.

It seems that what I mentioned doing in my last post did solve my problem.

Something I read on the Web suggested to me that "Convert 1" is a style applied to material you've imported from Word and I know that I did do some work on this document in Word at some stage.

I guess that was the source of my problem and the way to avoid it in future is to use OpenOffice only!

Thanks again,

Leslie