WD97: "Margins Set Outside Printable Area of Page"

If you set your document margins closer to the edge of the paper than your printer is capable of printing, Microsoft Word for Windows returns the following warning message for each copy you send to the printer:

Most laser printers, such as the Hewlett-Packard (HP) LaserJet, cannot print closer to the edge of the paper than 0.25 inch. Some laser printers, such as the HP LaserJet Series II, require 0.5-inch margins. Most PostScript and dot-matrix printers have their own internal printer driver setting for margins.

When you receive the warning message, clicking the Fix button increases any margin in the unprintable region to the minimum margin setting.

To determine what the document margins can be set to, start WordPad in Windows from the Accessories group.

1. On the File menu, click Page Setup.
2. Set one of the margins to zero (0) and click OK.
3. On the File menu, click Page Setup, and the margin that you set to zero(0) will display the minimum margin setting.