Questions tagged [margins]
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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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How can I get Notepad to show white margins on the top and sides, like in Windows Vista/7?
I recently got a Windows 10 computer that I've been customizing to visually resemble my previously-owned Windows Vista & 7 computers. I'm making great progress towards finalizing my customization,...
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Change Print Margins in Firefox on Mac?
I got a call asking how to change print margins in Firefox on their new Apple computers.
The Alt does not reveal a menu bar (File, Edit, View, etc) so File->Page Setup is not reachable there.
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How to view page/column margins
In Microsoft Word 2013 is there a way to view the margins so I can see where the limits of my current column are (one column or multiple columns)?
The closest I have gotten to this is by checking the ...
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Reduce document size in PDF to increase margins
I want to reduce the size of the document in PDF so that I can have larger margins. I need this to print sticky notes without covering the original text. I've tried increasing margins, but it didn't ...
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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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How do I get different printer margins for different printers to stick?
I have a computer running Windows XP SP3 that has three printers installed. I am printing from an in house web app in Internet Explorer. Two printers can share the same margins, but the third one ...
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Network printer (Source Technologies ST9530) prints pdf with different margin
I'm printing a pdf, sending it to a couple of printers on the network here (printer models: Source Technologies ST9530 and ST9730) and they print the document, but they both are shifting the content ...
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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 export a PowerPoint slide to PDF without margin?
I have a Microsoft PowerPoint 2013 file that contains a single slide. How can I export it to a PDF file so that the PDF file has no margin?
I.e. instead of:
I want (if possible with even less margin)...
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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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How can one automatically check if the text in one of the pages of a PDF exceeds the page margin?
I have a PDF with 10 pages. How can one automatically check if the text in one of the pages exceeds the page margin?
Example of a page that exceeds the page margin (I added the vertical black margin ...
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Excel automatic reduced print size - all print size change to small, all positions are wrong
My company have one file shared for users, it provided by another company and set the print area NOT allow to change (password protected)
User A, B using same configuration computer, same OS and ...
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Very weird print margin error, not follow custom margin
My company recently got three new Dell PCs, all the same model, equipped with Windows 11 and Office 2021. One of our users needs to open an Excel file and print it. However, when they try to print, ...
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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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Excel not showing the full page contents
In Microsoft Excel 2013 under Microsoft Windows 8, for a Letter 215.9 x 279.4 mm Page Size with zero margins (0 mm, 0 mm, 0 mm, 0 mm), and set at 100%, and cells set as 10 px Column Width x 10 px Row ...
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Black borders around content of site - site content window does not fill up Chrome window
When I open WhatsApp I see these black borders around. One time I got pretty frustrated with some code, and then pressed a lot of keys on the keyboard at the same time and this happened. How would I ...
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Microsoft Word - Margins for MS-Dos Text File
We run a DOS based database program. We are using vDos (plug: great program for those who need 16 bit DOS support on a 64 bit OS). Instead of printing direct to a printer (LPT1, LPT2, etc) we print to ...
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Printing Booklets on Canon ImageRunner Advance
I am trying to print two booklets on my organization's Canon ImageRunner Advance, and both are coming out with uneven or excessive margins.
I am printing from PDF files opening with Adobe Acrobat ...
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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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Borderless printing in Microsoft Excel 2016 not working
As a quick note, I feel silly to ask such an obvious question: I cannot make Microsoft Excel 2016 print without any margins!
What I would like to do:
I would like to color the left top of my ...
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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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Broken laser printer prints full bleed, fixed printer has margins, why?
Like most printers, mine has minimum margins. My driver knows about them, and if I try to override them then the printer seems to enforce them. This seemed completely normal to me until my printer ...
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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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Powerpoint margins when using a projector
I'm creating a Powerpoint presentation and I'm having trouble fitting everything (graphics) onto a slide. I've been trying to stay within the margins provided by the default template.
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Automatic margins when making a PDF in Pandoc?
Is there some way to, instead of specifying --variable papersize="A4" --variable margin-left="1.2in" --variable margin-top="1.2in" for the command, and having to change the two last ones every time ...
