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- Path: sparky!uunet!world!halberst
- From: halberst@world.std.com (jerry halberstadt)
- Subject: Re: How to reset margins interactively
- Message-ID: <C0KL61.M62@world.std.com>
- Keywords: margins
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <31484@nntp_server.ems.cdc.com>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 04:44:24 GMT
- Lines: 54
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- To change the margins you can change the text frame. In the Page Menu
- select Master, find the appropriate master page. Pull down the tools bar,
- select the pointer. Click on the dottet line representing the text frame.
- Square blocks will appear at the corners and in the middle of the lines.
- Approach one of the middle-of-the-line blocks with your cursor. It will
- change shape. Drag the block to change the size of the text frame. When you
- are satisfied, go back to the text page, and if necessary go to Page:Column
- Layout and apply the new master page to the text page. Voila.
-
- Hope this helps. Jerry.
-
- khubbard@ems.cdc.com (Kelvin Hubbard) writes:
-
- >I have a general question that I am unable to find the answer to in the
- >manual.
-
- >How does a person reset the margins once editing has begun on a document?
-
- >Here is the situation. I choose "NEW" from the framemaker popup menu.
- >FrameMaker then displays a window, asking me for the template I wish to use.
- >I select "Custom Document". I am then given several options to set, such as
- >top-margin, left-margin, and so forth. I then click "OK", and my brand
- >spanking new empty document is displayed for me.
-
- >So far so good.
-
- >After I type in the letter I am composing, I find that it consumes the entire
- >first page and 7 line on a second page. So, I go through the usual changing
- >of the leading and clipping where I can, but I still can't get those last 2
- >lines on the first page.
-
- >What I would like to do is change the top and/or bottom margin to 1/2 inch
- >instead of the 1 inch it defaulted to originally. It seems to me that it
- >must be possible. It seems like such an elementary thing to do, but alas
- >I am too simple to figure it out.
-
- >Anyone have the answer?
-
- >Thanks in advance for your help.
-
- >==========================================================================
- >Kelvin R. Hubbard email: khubbard@ems.cdc.com
- >Active Software, Inc.
- >C/O Empros Systems International Phone: (612) 553-4560
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-
- > In search of the Big Iron.
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