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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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  1. Suzanne S Barnhill 277.2K 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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  1. Suzanne S Barnhill 277.2K 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
    2014-04-28T22:25:48+00:00

    regardless of the reason there should be a way to simply disable this message - it is very frustrating when you know your page is going to print fine with the margins you have set.

    why there is no 'dont show this message again' option is beyond me.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-02-04T22:21:31+00:00

    Bl**dy hell. When I search for a solution to get rid of that stupid warning every search result points to this thread and even here there isn't a proper solution, just a bunch of people missing points and mis-quoting eachother.

    Let's get two things straight.

    1. After I click away the warning the printer print everything. Nothing is cropped, so clearly what I'm trying to print is NOT OUTSIDE the printers margins.
    2. Microsoft in its usual helpful way is warning me about something I know. Which is fine. But I'd like a way of telling Word to leave me alone in the same way I can turn off spell check. Failing that there should be a 'Don't warn me again for these margin settings' or simply 'Don't show this again'.

    Having to write a Macro to automatically get rid of a totally unnecessary popup is just ridiculous.

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-09-26T05:51:00+00:00

    Ok, you've missed the point. 

    1. 'Your margins are pretty small.....' is not proper English, the margin maybe small, but its certainly not pretty and MS Word is not my friend so why would it try and be familiar with me?
    2. The printer driver may well advise MS word that the margins are small, but its the programmers of Word that added the stupid statement and forced the user to click to discharge the message.

    A simple don't show this again message would do.

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