


The left of the screen currently looks like this:Īs you can see, there's a blue area to the left, and underneathĪ white area (this is grey and white in Word 2010). We'll adjust the Top margin for our report. The ruler icon near the top right, if you have Word 2007: Show/Hide panel on the View ribbon at the top of Word. If you can't see a ruler on the left hand side, either select it from the Want to change the amount of space used for the margins. Your cursor above the top margins, or below the bottom one. The blue areas are your top and bottom margins. (or grey) areas at the top and bottom of the left ruler, and a white area If you look at the ruler bar on the left of your screen, you'll see blue Note: You can also change other settings affecting page layout (including paper orientation and line numbering) in the same dialog box.Section Two: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Setting up Page Margins The first tab should be Margins, make your changes to the margins here, and then click Default.

#Changing margins in word 2007 update
Select All documents based on the Normal.dotm template? and click OK to update the default for all new documents.Choose the font settings that you would like to make the default and click Set As Default.Open a new document, click on the Home tab, click on the Font dialog box button as shown in the screenshot below, and select the Font tab.Confirm the changes by selecting Yes when prompted to set as the default for all documents of this type.To modify the default margins, select the expand button underneath Layout > Page Setup and change the settings as desired.For more advanced settings, such as character spacing, select Advanced and follow the same procedure to Set As Default.Confirm the changes for all documents of this type by selecting All documents based on the Normal template and then selecting Yes.Modify the font settings as desired, then select Set As Default as shown below.Select the expand icon underneath Home > Font as shown below.In most cases, this will be Blank document. Open a new document of the template you would like to update the default settings for.
#Changing margins in word 2007 how to
This document details how to change the default font, font size, and page margins in Word.
