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How do I get rid of the warning in Office 2013 that says "Your margins are pretty small, some of the content you print may be cut off. Are you sure you want to print?"?
I have read: https://support.microsoft.com/kb/166055
I set my margins to small by default, as I know that my HP printer can print to that size. (I have been printing like this for about 2 months, with no cut offs!) However word refuses to acknowledge this.
Is there some sort of global setting that stops this? As the amount of times that I have hit quick print, and then gone to the printer and then realised that it hasn't printed, because I forgot to click yes to the warning! It is really annoying!
Also, I really do not want to follow the steps in KB166055, as I would have to do that for every single document, and even then it decreases my margins, to sizes which word considers "Acceptable", which wastes paper, and messes up my document organisation completely! These "Acceptable" Margins are massive! Can I stop it without changing my margin size?
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The unprintable area respected by Word is specified by the printer driver, not by Word itself. Word gets the information from the printer driver, so unless you can redefine the unprintable area in the printer Property settings, there may be no way around this message.
The OP has already said he doesn't want to use the settings Word assigns when he uses "Fix." But since those minimums are established by the printer driver, there is really no way around them. And there is no need to consult the printer manual because the values Word uses when you click "Fix" are the ones prescribed by the printer manufacturer.
Fair enough observation. Send it MS using "Feedback" where it may do some good.
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I think you dont understand the point here.
Ok, this error is send back by the driver but the way the error is handled by Word is counter-helpful.
Acrobat reader show no warning and the print is perfect. Maybe it's a bit harsh but the user is not spammed by 100 messages.
When I asked "why so many spam?" The answer was "One error for each page with error so you can fix". Then my remark was "Ok, but how does it help since the message do not show the page number with error?"
Now, its back to the driver fault.
Since other software with same driver do not show this error it means that there is some code related to that inside word.
Yeah, it's working as intended but how it's intended is not good for the users. Do you want to make microsoft better or not?
A possible fix could be a Boolean variable called "DoesIHaveAlreadySendTheSameExactMessageThatIsOnlyAWarningAndNotEvenAnErrorAndThatShouldNotTurnUsersMad" so this message could be displayed once as a Warning.
Maybe with a checkbox 'DO NOT ASK ME AGAIN" like it's the case in many Microsoft Software.
That would be a perfect improvement.
Users cant the way you want it, please accept that. There are cases when you simply cant "use automatic margin from word".
Now we generate the mailmerge with word, we save is as PDF and we print it with Acrobat. This is faster then clicking the word warning multiple times.
Yeah you are probably right, let's ask all the different printer maker to change their drivers and continue to claim that microsoft want to improve the user experience.
The situation has not changed: this message is based on information provided by the printer driver. You can determine the minimum margins imposed by the driver by setting all margins to zero and then accepting Word's offer to "fix" the margins. If these don't match the physical capabilities of the printer, then you can try using a different driver for the printer (start with the latest one provided by the manufacturer, but dropping back to an older one may be better). In the final analysis, this is a problem you should take up with the printer manufacturer/driver provider.
As I said, nothing has been changed with my printer driver. Something changed in a Word update to cause this to happen all of a sudden. That's a simple fact. It may be related to the printer driver, but Word changed, not the driver. In any case, although I'm still not sure what the issue was, I was able to fix it by meddling with the default document settings (resetting Normal.dotm also appears to work):
www.mac-forums.com/macos-apps-and-games/346606-ms-word-margins-pretty-annoying-dialogue.html