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# WD: "Shrink to Fit" Repaginates Document Several Times

Article ID: 110143

Article Last Modified on 8/16/2005

APPLIES TO

- Microsoft Word 6.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 6.0a
- Microsoft Word 6.0c
- Microsoft Word 95 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 95a
- Microsoft Word 6.0 for Macintosh
- Microsoft Word 6.01 for Macintosh
- Microsoft Word 6.01 for Macintosh
- Microsoft Word 98 for Macintosh

This article was previously published under Q110143

## SYMPTOMS

When you click the Shrink to Fit button on the Print Preview toolbar, Word may repaginate your document several times. It may appear that Word is repaginating your document in an endless loop.

## CAUSE

Sometimes Word must perform several repagination operations to maximally reduce the number of pages in a document. If you choose the Shrink to Fit button and Word is unable to reduce the number of pages in your document after repaginating the document several times, one of the following messages may appear:
After several attempts, Word was unable to shrink the document by one page.
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Word could not shrink the document by one page because the document is already one page.

## REFERENCES

"Microsoft Word User's Guide," version 6.0, page 513

Additional query words: repagination multiple endless loop continuous infinite looping

Keywords: kbprb KB110143