How to get rid of the "Your Margins Are Pretty Small" Warning?

Anonymous
2013-10-17T19:47:51+00:00

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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Suzanne S Barnhill 279.2K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2013-10-17T21:04:54+00:00

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.

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Suzanne S Barnhill 279.2K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
2013-10-18T04:06:46+00:00

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.

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-11-08T15:47:21+00:00

    Go to the Mailings tab of the Ribbon and click on Labels and then set Avery US Letter as the Label Vendor and from the list of products select 45366 EcoFriendly File Folder Labels.  That is the actual Avery Product.  The file that you made available is a bastardised version of it.

    I see what you are describing. (Mine shows 5366 not 45366.)

    I concede that whether I am licensed for that product may be worthy of discussion. But that's not what this discussion is about.

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-11-08T15:34:05+00:00

    What do you call using stolen software? The Avery Label wizard is produced by Avery-Dennison, not Microsoft, and includes a copyright notice to that effect. Since you evidently don't have a licence for it, what makes you think you have any right to use

    it? How would you regard someone who copied your intellectual property and gave it away and the people who used copies of your intellectual property given to them? Microsoft owes you nothing in the way of support a third-party product, especially not for one that's been pirated.

    "Since you evidently don't have a licence for it, what makes you think you have any right to use it?"

    Whether I have a license or not isn't the issue. I'm not going to discuss that here.

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  3. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 323.6K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2017-11-08T06:10:47+00:00

    Go to the Mailings tab of the Ribbon and click on Labels and then set Avery US Letter as the Label Vendor and from the list of products select 45366 EcoFriendly File Folder Labels.  That is the actual Avery Product.  The file that you made available is a bastardised version of it.

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