Click Fix to automatically increase the margin width.
If you try to set margins that are too narrow, Microsoft Word displays the message One or more margins are set outside the printable area of the page. Most printers require a minimum width for margin settings. Word inserts a single, center book foldĪfter you set up a document as a booklet, work with it just as you would any document to insert text, graphics, and other visual elements. Use the same option to create a menu, invitation, event program, or any other type of document with a single center fold.ġ. Using the Book fold option in the Page Setup dialog box, you can create a booklet. Note: You can set gutter margins for a document that has mirror margins if the document needs extra space for binding. To learn about your minimum settings, check your printer manual. Minimum margin settings for printing depend on your printer, printer driver, and paper size. If you ignore the message, Word will display another message asking whether you want to continue. If your settings are too narrow, Microsoft Word displays the message One or more margins are set outside the printable area of the page. Microsoft Word automatically inserts section breaks before and after the text with new margin settings.
In the Apply to box, click Selected text. In the Page Setup dialog box, enter new values for the margins.Ĭhange the margins for only a section of a document by selecting the text and entering the new margins in the Page Setup dialog box. Up next, we're going to set different margins for your headers and footers.On the Page Layout tab, in the Page Setup group, choose Margins and the Margins gallery appears.Īt the bottom of the Margins gallery, choose Custom Margins. So that’s how to change the default margin in Word. You can see, I have this wide 2.5-inch margin, here on the right. We’ll click New, and then, we'll double-click Blank document.Īnd you can see over on the right, here for our ruler, we have a gray area that indicates that 2.5-inch margin.Īnd it’s even more apparent when I paste some text.
I do want to change the default settings for all new documents going forward. Word asks us: "Do you want to change the default settings for page setup?" Yes, I do. So we’ll go down to the lower left here and click Set As Default. Now, here we have our 2.5-inch margin here on the right, and that's what we want to stick to, for only documents. I am going to show you how to make that margins stick, by making it the Default Margin in Word.Īnd how we do that? As we go to the PAGE LAYOUT tab, and over on the left, we click Margins, and then we click Custom Margins. In the first video of this series, we set a custom margin.
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