Questions tagged [margins]
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How to change the Google Chrome default print margins
In Chrome, the default print margins are narrow. I would like the default to be wider.
Is there a way to make them wider?
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How to correct margins when printing a PDF?
I need to print some mathematical articles. But the margin is too large, so I want to edit it to solve this problem.
One way is converting it to Microsoft Word (I think). But I tried some programs ...
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Auto-crop black margins dynamically of scanned images?
I have a notebook photocopied and the photocopy scanned, about 200 pages.
For various reasons I need to print this material. There are large amounts of black areas at the sides of the page (after the ...
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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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A PDF viewer for large margins in fullscreen
I am looking for a way to pleasantly read PDF files on my widescreen (22" 1680x1050) monitor. My problem with all pdf the PDF-viewer applications I have tried is that they do not handle wide and high ...
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Removing VSCode Code Margin
I opened VS Code today to find these annoying side margins taking up meaningless space. Considering I usually push the code to the side with other windows open, this really clogs up my screen. Does ...
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Create PDF from an Excel file without margins in Windows 7
This question is kind of answered, but that solution doesn't work for Windows 7.
I've set margins to 0, no scaling and put colored shape all over printable area (few columns and rows from A1), for ...
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IntelliJ IDE: How to add one or more margins
I like PyCharm a lot. I write a good chunk of python for my job. I want to conform to PEP8 and it's line length suggestions as best as possible. Having right margins for 72 characters, 79 characters, ...
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Cannot modify top/bottom space for header/footer in LibreOffice, and disabled Header/Footer after export to Office 2007
I have written my Thesis in LibreOffice. Everything is fine, but my University requires to provide the Thesis in a very specific format. In LibreOffice I cannot replicate the "From Top/From Bottom" ...
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How can I have different margins in Libre Office Writer?
I need to write a document that will be printed front/back on multiple sheets that are then to be stapled together.
I need to leave different margins depending if the page is even or odd, for one I ...
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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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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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Remove all surrounding margins in a pdf
I use a tablet to read several pdfs. Because of additional margins , the actual text on each page gets rather small. I would like to remove all whitespace before any actual content. This can mean that ...
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Excel printed pages are different between two machines
I an excel spredsheet that I want to print from two different machines. On the first machine is printed on a single page where on the second needs two as the last line cannot fit on the first page.
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Microsoft Word 2007: top and bottom margins are gone?
So take a look at the following screenshot:
As you can see, the top and bottom margins of the page are gone, but the left and right side still are still present. Any idea how to get them back? I'm ...
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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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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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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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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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If there a way to add black margins/padding to my monitor without affecting the resolution?
I have a new monitor and it has these beveled edges that makes the left and right side have these curved, faded, black gradient. It cuts away at the edges and looks worse depending on what angle I'm ...
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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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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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Space before a Title
I have a title which I want to give a top margin. However, specifying a paragraph spacing before the title doesn't work if I don't have a paragraph above the title.
How can I make my title have a ...
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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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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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What are the standard Microsoft Office margins for double-sided printing on A4?
I am asking because I am supposed to use standard Microsoft Word margins and the document is going to be printed double-sided. I want to figure out what those margins would be in Microsoft Word and ...
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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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Samsung printer (ML-1640) margin problem
I just got a new laser printer, Samsung ML-1640, and it has once again confirmed my experience that Samsung printers suck badly.
The printer prints fine, except that the top margin is set at random, ...
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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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How can I add a (vertical) margin (i.e., padding) between page header and content on the second page with repeating table header in Telerik reporting
I am using Telerik Report Designer Software.
I have a problem: I want to set a margin between the page header
and the table header when the table header is repeating.
On the first page it looks good,...
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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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Can Visio background pages set foreground-page margins?
Question: Is there any way to automatically set the margins of a foreground page in Visio 2007 to the margins of the corresponding background page?
Situation: My Visio 2007 document has a portrait ...
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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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Word 2010 prints white space (like margins) in document
I have a document that was created in Word 2007. There's no problem when i'm printing it using Word 2007 on other computers.
However, when I print it using Word 2010, it prints white spaces like ...
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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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Automatically add blank margins to pictures to obtain 4x5 aspect-ratio?
I frequently order prints online. However the printing-service is automated and crops out the pictures I upload to a 4x5 ratio. I'd like to be able to add margins (e.g. white) to the pictures BEFORE I ...
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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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Minimum page margins
How do I found out what the minimum page margins for my printer is? (I do not have a manual).
I got a Canon MG5150
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How does Adobe Acrobat determine the scaling for fit-printing?
Due to printer margins, outer page elements may not be printed when attempting to print a document at 100% scale. When one chooses the "fit" scaling option instead, Acrobat chooses a scale such that ...
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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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Set print margins in Textmate?
I'm using OS X 10.8.5 with TextMate 2.0-beta.6. I want to print a text document, but it appears there are no margins (or the margins are too small for my taste):
I visited Textmate's Page Setup, but ...
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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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Set Different Margin Color in Libreoffice Writer
Is it possible to set different margin color and leave the workspace white ?? Because some text and pictures need to add there..
I look up and haven't found anything related to this except for this ...
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