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Formatting margins in Word documents
I am formatting a document written by someone else and am frustrated by the wandering margins. I have tried deleting all the margins and resetting but the problem remains. The ruler at the top of ...
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Keyboard shortcut for enabling margins' gridlines in Word 2013?
Weird lines appeared in my .docx documents, when I open them in Word 2013:
I know what those are and how to get rid of them.
Here I am asking, how did I get them in the first place? Because I am ...
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Microsoft Word Table Cell Top Margin - applying different top margin to different cells in the row
I have a table in MS Word. As you can see I have specified varying top margin to the cells in the first row, however it seems that the largest cell top margin is applied to all cells in the row. Why ...
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How to align two sections in one page to the top and to the bottom with complex layout?
I want to replicate this PDF page into a word document
But I cannot make the bottom paragraph to become as I want to it to be seen.
I've already seen and tried this question, but using that method, ...
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Web layout with margins in Microsoft Word or LibreOffice Writer?
In any word processor, is there any way to restrict the width of the web layout view to a comfortable width for reading and writing? I understand that you could simply make the GUI window narrower but ...
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Why does the text in word run over the indent marker (run into margin)?
Why is my text in word suddenly not obeying the indent markers? It runs past the marker and into the margin. If I adjust the indent marker left or right, the edge of the paragraph does move with the ...
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How to completely remove the margin of a Word document?
So I'm trying to design a Christmas letter and I just can't figure out how to truly remove the margin at the top and bottom. It's technically probably not a margin.
I've already set the margin in the ...
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Margins too Small work around - Word 2013
How do I defeat the "Settings you Choose for the left and right margins, columns spacing, or paragraph indents are too large for the page width in some sections."
I need margins <.5" and it will ...
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Force an MS Word table to respect mirror margins
I've been given a design for a template in PDF format which was created in Adobe InDesign and I have to recreate it in Word. The design has some odd margins which I imagine are easy enough to do in a ...
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Margin in Microsoft Word doesn't match in Print Preview or Printed version [duplicate]
We have a document template that we're building that looks like this:
When we click Print, the Preview window appears, and we see (note the additional whitespace at the top and left of the blue ...
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Printing a footer background that extends to the edge of the page
I have a letterhead that was designed in Word. When I attempt to print the letterhead on US Letter paper (or A4, for that matter), the footer background does not extend to the edge of the page, as ...
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ms word 2013- corruption and margins set outside print area
If i have an ms word 2013 document with background rectangle shape of gradient color covering the whole page (so the margins are set outside the printable area) and get the error "one or more marins ...
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Converting a Docx file to PDF without losing any formatting
I am attempting to convert a Docx file that I have to a PDF. I have done this many times before, but this particular file has a lot of unique formatting with page breaks; some pages are landscape, ...
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Get LibreOffice to change the margins for all pages and not just the last page when select all pages is active?
I am using the template for a book from Createspace that is owned by Amazon. The template is a word document and there are various formatting styles in this template, and I want to change the margin ...
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Overlap of text and grouped image in MS Word
I am using Microsoft Word 2013 on Windows 7 x64 and I am having issues with overlapping text with grouped text and images. When I do the following:
insert an image (less than half of the page)
make ...
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Add anchored shapes in the margin area in Word
I need to rewrite a resume in PDF to Word. The section headers are marked with additional rectangles in the margin area, like this:
How would I do that in MS Word, in the .docx format? I found some ...
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How to adjust page size (not margins?) in Word
I am experiencing a bizarre quirk on Word, wherein my page's margins (or something else that I don't know the terminology for) have been adjusted without me being aware of how it happened (see picture ...
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Microsoft Word: Place a footnote in the margin
Microsoft Word has the ability to place a footer in the page's margin. This is very useful when writing documents that must meet exact rules or page counts (e.g. government work).
Is there a way to ...
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Text going outside of page margins in Microsoft Word
I'm writing a book on my life as a farmer but seem to be having an issue with text going outside of the document margins? Does anyone know why this is happening?
Link to my document
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Creating different margins on the first page of a word template
I have a letterhead template and I need the first page left margin to be larger than subsequent pages.
I've seen the option of placing a text box or image box in the header to push the text but this ...
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MS WORD Changing Page Margins / Setting Print Margins without changing document layout
I have a certain layout in word document that is 250 pages. Unfortunately, it has 0.5 page margins. Is there a way to simply increase the paper/page size so that I will have 1 inch margins without ...
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Bottom paragraph shifts to next page in Word 2010/2013
I have a doc with 1-inch margins. MS Word 2010/2013.
When I type a paragraph (e.g. 10 lines) in the bottom of a page (there is no room for all the 10 lines in the bottom), Word moves the whole ...
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