How to Set Different Margins in Word
Oct 4, 2020 ยท 2 minute read
Sometimes you need to have different margins for your document, for instance, here we want to have a different margin for the first page of each chapter and, for other pages of each chapter define different margin. for that you can follow one of these methods;
How to Set Different Page Margins
1- Place the cursor on the page of your desired chapter.
2- Click on the Layout.
3- Click on the Margins.
4- Click on the “Custom Margins”.
5- Click on the Margins tab.
6- In the Margin section modify the margins of your page.
7- In the Apply to part,
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Click on the arrow.
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Choose “This point forward” option.
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Click on Ok.
8- Place the cursor at the end of the first page.
9- Click on the Layout.
10- Click on the Margins.
11- Click on the “Custom Margins”.
12- Specify your desired margin for other pages of your chapter.
13- In the “Apply to” part click on the arrow.
- Choose “This point forward” option.
14- Click on Ok.
15- Place the cursor at the beginning of the other chapters.
16- Repeat steps two to fourteen for each chapter.
How to Set Different Page Margins with Page Break.
In this method, you should create a section for each part which you want to have different margins.
For that you should follow these steps;
1- place the cursor at the end of the first line of the first page of your chapter.
2- Click on the Layout.
3- Click on Break.
4- Choose “Continuos” option.
5- Place the cursor at the end of that chapter.
6- Click on the Layout.
7- Click on Break.
8- Choose Next Pages option.
9- Repeat these steps for all chapter.
10- Click on the first line of your desired chapter.
11- Click on the Layout.
12- Click on the Margins.
13- Click on Custom Margins…
14- Specify your desired margin for the first page.
15- In the Apply to part;
- Click on the arrow and choose “This section”.
16- Click Ok.
Now we need to specify our desired margins for the other pages of that chapter.
for that we should;
17- Click on the text of that chapter.
18- Click on the Layout.
19- Click on the Margins.
20- Click on Custom Margins…
21- Specify your desired margin for the first page.
22- In the Apply to part;
- Click on the arrow and choose “This section”.
23- Click Ok.
24- Repeat steps 10 to 24 for other chapters.