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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.
Is there seriously still no solution to this? I have used 0.5" margins for years and years for letter-size documents, and only in the last few months has Word started displaying this annoying dialogue. And, no, there are no issues with the actual printed page; nothing is cut off. I have both an HP Envy 5530 and 7640 and neither of them had any updates from before the issue started until now. Word has, however. Thus, I am blaming Microsoft.
macOS High Sierra Version 10.13.5
Microsoft Word for Mac Version 16.14.1 (180613)
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.
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