Borders consistently cut off when try to save from mac word to PDF

So I actually found this solution on a post dated nearly a decade ago but it worked for me.

What's causing this unbearable headache? It's your printer settings. Some printers won't allow you to print in the area where your border appears. Simply toggle with the various printers you have loaded until you find one that allows you to see the borders in the preview pane. Easy no?

I don't use Word for Mac, preferring Office in Windows run as a virtual machine, but when you're saving the document as a PDF file, is that using a PDF converter built into Word? If so, have you tried printing the document instead, and in the Print dialog box, choosing PDF and then Save as PDF?

This is a real long shot but since you've got a rMBP, what screen resolution setting are you using? I'm wondering if other than "Best for Retina Display" might be using scaling which MS Word doesn't fully understand so that What You See Isn't What You Get. Have you tried running at the "Best for Retina Display" setting even though you give up all that screen real-estate in the process. And have you installed the 14.2.4 update from MS which is supposed to include compatibility with Retina Displays?

What happens when you view it in Acrobat or Preview app? or when you print it, either from Word or other programs? just curious whether it displays wrong or is wrong.

And you can export as PDF from Print - instead of printing also.

(this is not a forum focus on MacBook Pro)

http://word.tips.net/T000496_Margins_Incorrect_when_Printing.html

http://blogs.adobe.com/acrobatineducation/2007/02/difference_in_margins_when_pri .html

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2010-word/odd-experience- with-margins-in-word-2011-for-mac/362bf1cd-8350-e011-8dfc-68b599b31bf5

- all from Bing search "Word 2011 pdf wrong margins"

OK ! I had this problem too. The way I solved this was by selecting, unde page setup in word, a BORDERLESS option in the page layout. This did it for me both for creating PDFs and also dealt with the cases where my prints lacked the borders. Hope this helps others.

If you can SAVE AS a .jpg you will get exactly what you see.

Cheers

Don

It has been a while since I used Microsoft Office but if it has Excell or one of the other programs I know there is one in that suit that will allow you to change it to .jpg (Command Shift 4) Take a picture of it and it willsave to your Desktop or your Mac HD and then you can change it for sure.

Don

I have finally fixed this incessant problem!

Ok so here is what to do for saving a word doc to PDF with no border cut offs:

1. Go to 'File'

2. Go to 'Page Setup'

3. Click on 'Paper Size'

4. Click on 'Manage Custom Sizes'

5. On custom size set the page to 210 x 297 (if you're doing A4, or any size depending on your paper)

6. You will also see 'Non-Printable Area.' Set 'left right, top and bottom' to 0 (margin settings on new custom size)

7. Then go back and 'save as' PDF, then voila, all your borders will be perfect as they were intended with NO CUT OFFS!

Thanks for the above info.

I tried this, set up the new custom page size with zero values for the borders and saved this new custom setting.

Having selected the new custom page size I click OK to confirm it.

However when I go back to "Save As" to save the document as a PDF, the page set up simply reverts to its previous standard page size (in my case A3) and the problem remains you.

Could somebody kindly point out what I am missing?

Thank you

The resolution choice depends on how much you want or need to fit on the screen. You can get more screen real-estate (i.e., there's room for more stuff visible on the screen) at the expense of everything looking smaller, or less resolution, which makes everything look larger and easier to read but less also fits on the screen. The native resolution (which you can't set using the Display Preferences) makes text look really tiny but is still crisp and gives a vast amount of screen real-estate, as long as your vision is up to it.

The update I mentioned was released to give MS Office 2011 compatibility with the Retina display and you're current version is later than that so compatibility shouldn't be an issue.

I'm also having the same problem and it's driving me mad. How do you select borderless Hktony? I can't find it anywhere.

Cheers,

Joe