How to Change Margins in Word

Oct 6, 2020 ยท 2 minute read

Margins are the white areas which are surrounding our printed text. If you want to see the outline of margins on your screen, you can follow how to show margins in word page.

How to Change Margins in Word

Here we are going to some methods for changing margins.

How to Change Margins in Word by Ruler

This method is only recommended for short documents.

If you can not see ruler on your screen, you should follow these steps;

1- Click on the View tab.

2- Select the Ruler box.

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3- Select all words in your document.

For that you can follow one of these steps;

  • Hold “Ctrl” key and press “A” Key.

The second method for selecting all text in your document is;

  • Click on the Home tab.

  • Click on the Select.

  • Choose “Select All”.

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4- On the top of your page, hover your cursor over the inner border of the grey area of the horizontal ruler until your cursor become a double arrow.

5- Slide the double-arrow cursor to the left or right to adjust the margin.

For changing the vertical margins, you can repeat these steps for the vertical ruler.

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How to Use Preset Margins

For changing margins you can use preset margins too.

For that you can follow these steps;

1- Click on the Layout tab.

2- Click on the Margins.

3- Here you can choose some preset options for the margin of your document.

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How to Create Custom Margins

If you want to create different margin for your document you can follow these steps;

1- Click on the Layout tab.

2- Click on the Margins.

3- Click on the “Custom Margins”.

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4- In the Page setup dialogue click on the Margins tab.

5- Insert your desired data for the margins of your document.

6- In the Apply part click on the arrow, choose “Whole document” option.

7- Click Ok.

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How to Use Preset Margins in the Printing Section

You can change the margins of your document in the printing part.

For that you should follow these steps;

1- Click on the File tab.

2- Choose Print.

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3- Click on the Margins option.

4- Here you can choose some preset options for margins of your document.

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5- If you need different margins for your document, you can follow these steps;

  • Click on the “Custom Margins”.

  • Specify your desired data for the margins of your document.

6- Click Ok.

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If you want to create different margins for your document you can follow how to set different margins in word page.

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