Within this option box you can edit your measurements. Once the palette is open hold down Shift and click the pages you need and go to layout > Margins and columns. Check this by opening the Pages palette, if it is not open go to Window > Pages. To set margins with the ruler, you will have to display the document in either Print Preview or in Print Layout view, and also make sure that the rulers are. Set or clear the Show White Space between Pages in Print Layout View checkbox, as desired. Make sure you select the pages you want to edit.The Display options of the Word Options dialog box. At the left side of the dialog box, click Display.In Word 2010 or later versions, display the File tab of the ribbon and then click Options.) (In Word 2007 click the Office button and then click Word Options. To adjust the amount of space between each. Select the margin configuration you want, or select Custom Margins to define your own margins. Newer versions Office 2010 Office 2007 Select Layout > Margins.
If you prefer, you can also change the settings by using Word's dialog boxes: This tutorial explains the basics of how to modify these two formatting features in Microsoft Word. You can customize or choose predefined margin settings, set margins for facing pages, allow extra margin space to allow for document binding, and change how margins are measured.
If you double-click on the mouse when the pointer is in this condition, Word toggles the display of the top and bottom white space.
If you move the mouse pointer to the top or bottom border of the on-screen page representation, you'll notice that it changes to a small icon that has two arrows facing each other vertically. This feature provides a way to display more real information on the screen and is particularly useful if you have a document that uses a lot of white space at the top and bottom of the page. Set document margins for a word-processing document Click the Document radio button In the Document Margins section, click the arrows or enter values in the. What Rodney is seeing is actually a feature of Word that hides white space (including headers and footers) at the top and bottom of a page. Rodney is wondering why this is happening.
The "pages" of paper shown on-screen in Print Layout view show no top and bottom margin at all. Rodney notes that when he opens a new document in Word the on-screen display of the pages shows the correct left and right margins, but not the correct top and bottom margins.