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”.

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5- Click on the Margins tab.

6- In the Margin section modify the margins of your page.

7- In the Apply to part,

  • Click on the arrow.

  • Choose “This point forward” option.

  • Click on Ok.

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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.

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15- Place the cursor at the beginning of the other chapters.

16- Repeat steps two to fourteen for each chapter.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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24- Repeat steps 10 to 24 for other chapters.

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