Page Setup and Margins
The page setup and margins are very important for printing.
The article on white water rafting is ready to go into the newsletter. All that Nick has to do now is to put it in a newsletter column format.
Page Setup
He begins by setting up the page. Ms Word places all the Page setup controls in one convenient location; the Page Setup dialog box. To access it,
1.Click on File > Page Setup.
From here, you can control different aspects of Page setup, such as Page margins, Page size, and Page orientation. Let’s look at each of these formatting features in detail.
Set Margins
Pick up any book or a newspaper and you will find margins, the blank spaces along the edges of the paper that is found around the text.
Margin is the border area or the “white space” around the documents pages. It is the blank space between the text and the edge of the page.
To specify the page margin,
- Click File > Page Setup.
- In the dialog box, click the Margins tab to select it.
- Set your margins. For example, you might want to set your margins to 0.5". So your document will have a blank space of 0.5” all around.
TIP: You can use the Print Layout View to see your document as it will appear when you print it. To switch to Print Layout View, click View >Print Layout.
