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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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