The "shrink one page" tool that Word provides is a one-trick pony: it reduces
the font size of all the text in half-point increments until the page count
decreases by one.
There are a number of better ways to do the job, but none of them are one-button
tools. Read http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Formatting/FitCopy.htm.
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On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:19:12 -0500, "MaryL"
<stancole1[ at ]yahoo.comTAKE-OUT-THE-LITTER> wrote:
[Quoted Text] >I spoke too soon. That sounded like it would do the same thing, but it
>doesn't seem to work the same way. Word 2007 does not include File, but I
>found Print Preview. The only option I found there was to "shrink one
>page." That does, indeed, shrink the document but it made a much larger
>change than needed. I tried it on a document that I wanted to shrink to two
>pages. That document had one paragraph that extended onto the third page.
>Instead of shrinking the document so it would fill two pages (which is what
>I am used to and what I wanted), the document now leaves a great deal of
>space on the second page. So, it did shrink but too much. Is there any way
>to get it to actually fill the pages specified?
>
>Thanks,
>MaryL
>
>"BobT" <BobT[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>news:17F34A6C-7F1B-4826-9D69-D265360C61B9[ at ]microsoft.com...
>> Choose FILE | PRINT PREVIEW. Once in this view, there is a SHRINK TO FIT
>> button in the toolbar that does the same thing.
>>
>> Bob Tulk
>> MOUS(XP/97)
>>
>> "MaryL" wrote:
>>
>>> Does Word have the equivalent of WordPerfect's Make It Fit function? For
>>> example, if I have three basic pages in a newsletter plus a small amount
>>> of
>>> text that flows onto a fourth page -- Is there a way to quickly generate
>>> a
>>> 3-page document by asking Word to adjust margins and/or font? If so, how
>>> is
>>> it done?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> MaryL
>>>
>>>
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