How To Set Default Margins In Microsoft Word 2007' title='How To Set Default Margins In Microsoft Word 2007' />Set or change page margins in Word. Word automatically sets a one inch page margin around each page. Basic Formatting Techniques in Microsoft Word. Note I am in the slow and intermittent process of rewriting this chapter for Ribbon versions of Word. With a few clicks you can choose a different margin, or create your own. You can also set margins for facing pages, allow extra margin space to allow for binding the document, and change how margins are measured. In this article Choose a predefined margin setting. Create custom margins. Set margins for facing pages. Add a gutter margin for bound documents. Change the unit of margin measurement. Choose a predefined margin setting. Click Layout Margins. The Margins gallery appears with the Normal one inch margin already selected. To change margins, click any of the other options in the Margins gallery. Each one shows the margin measurements. How To Set Default Margins In Microsoft Word' title='How To Set Default Margins In Microsoft Word' />Notes If your document contains multiple sections, the new margin will apply only to the section youre in, or to as many sections as you have selected. If you want the new margin to be the default every time you open Word, click Margins Custom Margins at the bottom of the Margins gallery. On the Margins tab in the Document box, click Default at the bottom left corner of the box, and then click Yes. Create custom margins. If none of the standard margins are what you want, set your own. Click Layout Margins Custom Margins at the bottom of the Margins gallery. On the Margins tab, enter the values you want. Note If you want the new margin to be the default every time you open Word, on the Margins tab in the Document box, click Default at the bottom left corner of the box, and then click Yes. Set margins for facing pages. Use mirror margins to set up facing pages for double sided documents, such as books or magazines, so that the margins of the left page will be a mirror image of those on the right. Click Layout Margins. Click Mirrored. Note  To change widths of mirrored margins, click Custom Margins at the bottom of the Margins gallery. How to change line spacing in Microsoft Word 2007. Microsoft changed the default line spacing in Word 2007 so this quick. Enter new values in the Inside and Outside boxes. Add a gutter margin for bound documents. A gutter margin adds extra space to the side, top margin, or inside margins of a document you plan to bind. That helps ensure that text isnt obscured by the binding. Click Layout Margins Custom Margins. In the Gutter box, enter a width for the gutter margin. Change the unit of margin measurement. Set the margin unit of measurement to whatever you find most useful inches, centimeters, millimeters, points, or picas. On the Word menu, click Preferences, and then under Authoring and Proofing Tools, click General. In the Show measurements in units of box, select the unit you want. More about margins. To change margins from a certain point forward in a document, select the text, click Layout Margins Custom Margins. Then, on the Margins tab, enter the values for the margins you want, and in Apply to, click This point forward. If you apply margins to selected text, Word automatically inserts section breaks before and after the text. If your document is already divided into sections, you can click in a section or select multiple sections, and then change the margins. Most printers require a minimum width for margin settings, because they cant print all the way to the edge of the page. If you try to set margins that are too narrow, a message says One or more margins are set outside the printable area of the page. Click Fix to automatically increase the margin width. The minimum margin settings depend on your printer, printer driver, and paper size. Check your printer manual to learn about the minimum margin settings. See also. Add section breaks in Word. Adobe Premiere Free Trial Limitations In Research on this page. Change the unit of measure in Word. Add indents and spacing in Word.