Cannot adjust margins to original settings

[FlamingoMSF310]

Words for Mac 2011. I submitted a books to a publisher 228 pages. When printed the publisher lets you approve the print by posting it on line. I did and sent for a bounded printed copy. When I scanned the copy on line I failed to notice the margins.
The printed copy was not Justified and the length of the sentances had gone


from approx. 4" to 3". Disaster. I have been hours trying rectify the margins.
No I did not make a copy before sending to publisher. The only copy I have now
is the copy sent to me by the publisher. Do I have to retype the whole book?
I sure could use some help. Thank you

[Charles Kenyon]

Well...
Did you send the book as an email attachment? If so, check your sent email for the attachment.

How easy this is to fix depends.
Is the book still in Word format?
Has it been converted to another format and then perhaps converted back?
How many Word sections are in the book?

A three-inch line length is not unusual in a book, especially with smaller type sizes. Longer lines are hard to read.

Bottom line: ALWAYS keep backups of important documents. Always keep backups of documents you send to someone else. (That's the lawyer as well as the computer nerd in me speaking.)

If in Word format, you may want to take the book to a Windows environment and use the following Add-In which only works in Windows Word:
Word Toolkit for Advanced Management of Word Headers and Footers

The title of that should be management of sections but most people would use it for headers and footers. Margins are also a section property.
Sections / Headers and Footers in Microsoft Word (Ribbon Versions)

That toolkit would allow you to look at each section in the book and make changes.

Are you sure you are talking about margins and not indents?
Margins and Indents in Word
If every time you wanted to change the distance from the edge of the page (as for a quotation) you changed the margin you are going to have a ton of extra sections.

[Charles Kenyon]

If worst comes to worst, you can print the book as pdf, use an OCR program on it (Acrobat has this built-in), and then copy and paste. That should give you a good starting point and not be quite as laborious as retyping it.

[FlamingoMSF310]

The book was in Word form. 5X8 Mar. .5.5.8.5.3. I then had to convert it to pdf using print to pdf on my Mac. The printer then sent back via email a copy of the finished book for me to approve. I did so but failed to check justifying and margins. Had book printed and sent to me. Lost the original form. I then tried to convert the pdf that was sent to me by printer back to words using Cisdem software, converts to same as printed book. I am at complete lost how to use Words to return the docx to original form.

[Charles Kenyon]

I do not know what Cisdem software is.
However, with the mulitple conversions any Word-specific formatting has been lost.

Find an OCR program to take a scanned document and convert it to text. Then copy and paste into a new Word document as plain text. You will have to reformat it to what you want.

If you wonder why your original formatting is gone, think about taking your book and having someone translate it from English into Mandarin, then have the Mandarin copy translated into German. Then have someone translate the German back to UK English. Most of your meaning will still be there, but much contextual meaning and nuanced dialog will be really messed up. Conversion programs are similar to translation.