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1. On the File menu, click Page Setup, and then click the Margins tab.

2. Under Margins, select the options you want.

  Notes  

• To change the default (default: A predefined setting. You can accept the default option settings, or you can change them to suit your own preferences.) margins (margin: The blank space outside the printing area on a page.), click Default after you select new margin settings. The new default settings are saved in the template on which the document is based. Each new document based on that template automatically uses the new margin settings.
• To change the margins for part of a document, select the text, and then set the margins you want. In the Apply to box, click Selected text. Microsoft Word automatically inserts section breaks (section break: A mark you insert to show the end of a section. A section break stores the section formatting elements, such as the margins, page orientation, headers and footers, and sequence of page numbers.) before and after the text with the new margin settings. If your document is already divided into sections (section: A portion of a document in which you set certain page formatting options. You create a new section when you want to change such properties as line numbering, number of columns, or headers and footers.), you can click in a section or select multiple sections and then change the margins.

You can also do one of the following:

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