2007 Microsoft® Office System Inside Out

Changing Margins and Orientation

The page setup items you’ll adjust most often are likely to be margins and page orientation. Word 2007 makes accessing these settings a snap by including the Margins and Orientation galleries on the Page Layout tab. The margins of your document control the amount of white space at the top, bottom, right, and left edges of the document. You can also control the amount of space used for the gutter, which is the space on the inside edges of facing pages that is reserved for binding. You can customize the gutter setting along the left or top margin of the page.

Changing Margin Settings

When you begin working with a new document, the left, right, top, and bottom margins are set to 1 inch or 2.54 centimeters, depending ...