Word – Page Setup Option is Grayed Out – How to fix

I had this problem today and I fixed it my simply changing the position of that blinking cursor to be over some text.

It looks like if your insert point is over a graphic or other non-text element then page setup becomes grayed out for who knows why.

I found this answer here.

If that doesn’t solve your problem I also read about people having corrupted normal.dot files so you could try these instructions.

My search terms were:

  1. word page setup grayed out
  2. word + “page setup” + (“grayed out” OR “greyed out”) #google and google groups

Posted by Greg Pinero (Primary Searcher) on Jan 17th, 2006 and is filed under Other, win32.

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3 Responses to “Word – Page Setup Option is Grayed Out – How to fix”

  1. WENDY says:
    April 30th, 2008 at 8:32 am

    All selections in word our grayed out and we can’t edit or open documents. It allows us to open documents but we can’t edit, word says the selection is locked.

  2. YJoosshhiuea101 says:
    May 24th, 2008 at 6:44 pm

    For WENDY
    Try this
    Help>About Microsoft Office Word
    Then click Disabled Items.
    Enable them.

    Not sure if it will work but best to give it a shot.

    YJoosshhiuea101