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For 8.5'x11' documents (bound or unbound), use 1-inch margins. However, I recommend increasing the inside margin (the margin closest to the binding). Adjusting Justification in Word. Microsoft Word 2010 lets you justify a block of text by adjusting the spaces between words to make a paragraph align perfectly with the margins on both sides of the.

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For bound books 6'x 9' or smaller, use 0.5' margins on the top, outside and bottom of books, and a 0.75' inside margin.
For 8.5'x11' documents (bound or unbound), use 1-inch margins.
Adjust margins, font size, and columns to produce 65-70 characters per line (including spaces).

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Printers usually require minimum one-half-inch margins. Narrower margins risk smearing wet ink as the printing press’s rollers move the paper.

Increasing margins (e.g., to one inch) makes your book longer and costlier to print. However, I recommend increasing the inside margin (the margin closest to the binding). This makes the book easier to read. Pages tend to curl near the binding. Less light gets into the center of a book. Increase your inner margin to three-quarter-inch.

The Chicago Manual of Style (18.17) advocates printing 65 to 70 characters on each line (including spaces). In Microsoft Word, select a line and use Tools…Word Count to count the number of characters. E.g., in the last paragraph, the full lines varied from 63 to 69 characters.

If your lines have substantially more than 70 characters, consider using two columns.

Make your three outer margins equal. This makes the text look square on the page. E.g., set your margins at three-quarter-inch for the inside, one-half-inch for the outside, one-half-inch for the top margin, and one-half-inch for the bottom margin.

Professional book designers will object that books traditionally have a narrower top margin and a wider bottom margin. This looks good if you have a running header but no running footer. I prefer equal margins, to maximize use of the page and reduce page count. As noted above with font choice, using equal margins is a rule to keep novices out of trouble. If you understand traditional book design don't follow this rule.

Use mirror margins with unequal inner and outer margins, if your document will be bound (e.g., a book).

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By Helen Bradley

There is no avoiding the fact; Microsoft Word is a very powerful program that has way more features than you're probably ever going to need. When you are just getting started with Word the entire program can look just a little bit overwhelming. Even simple tasks like getting a picture into the right place can be difficult. In this article I’ll introduce you to the basics of formatting a Word document and show you where to find all the tools you will need to get started.

Set Up Your Page

To see the entire Word document, choose View > Print Layout. This is the easiest way to view your document the way it will look when you print. Word presets the margins around the page where you can't type, but you can adjust them. You can access and change the margin settings by choosing File > Page Setup > Margins tab. By default, Word sets the top and bottom margins at one inch and the left and right margins at 1¼ inch.

The Margins tab option includes a feature that lets you change the margins on your page.
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You can alter these values to make the margins wider or narrower. However if you decrease them too much you may get an error message ‑ saying the margins are outside the printable area ‑ when you click OK. Most printers can't print to the edges of the paper so you can't make the margins too small – the width of this non-printing area is different for every printer. If you get that error message, click Fix to have Word adjust the margins for you

If you need a page that's wider than it is tall – called landscape orientation – this is the place to change the orientation setting. When you do, the page on the screen will change rotation, but you still put the paper into the printer as usual. Word takes care of printing it correctly for you.

Line Spacing

If you’re writing an essay or a document that needs to have larger-than-normal spacing between lines, use the line spacing options. Locate the Line Spacing button on the Formatting toolbar. From the dropdown list of options you can choose from single spacing (1.0) through 1.5, 2.0, 2.5 and 3.0, which is triple line spacing. As with any tool in Word, if you want to apply this to text you have already typed you should first select the text and then set the desired line spacing.

Use the Symbol dialog to add special characters that you won't find on a keyboard.
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Formatting Text

You'll find many of the options for formatting text in Word in the toolbar. You can, for example, select a piece of text and choose a font from the Font dropdown list and a size from the Font Size dropdown list. Font sizes are measured in points and 72 points equals one inch. People typically use an 11- or 12-point font size for text in documents like letters and reports

From the toolbar you can also select Bold, Italics and Underline font styles. For additional formatting options, choose Format > Font > Font tab. Here you can, for example, create a shadow or small capitals font effect. From the Character Spacing tab you can adjust the spacing of the characters to stretch them wider apart or to make them closer together.

For example, to make letters spaced father apart, from the Spacing dropdown list choose Expanded and set the amount of extra space between characters. Check the Preview box to see what the result will look like. You must, of course, select any text that you want to apply the additional spacing to before you adjust its spacing.

Use the Picture toolbar options to change the text-wrapping and behavior of an inserted image.
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Inserting Symbols

If you need special symbols ‑ a trademark symbol, a checkbox or another character for which there is no key on the keyboard ‑ choose Insert > Symbol. Select a font to use – this can be the font you are using for your document or you can choose, for example, the Wingdings font that contains a range of handy graphical characters. Click the symbol you want to use, click Insert and then click Close.

Inserting Images

By default Word treats images the same as the characters you type so you can't move images around the way you might expect. If you choose Insert > Picture > Clipart or From File and insert a picture into your document it will be stuck in its current position and difficult to move.

To change this behavior so you can move the picture, click on the picture to display the Picture toolbar. If it doesn't appear, choose View >

3 4 Inch Margins Microsoft Word