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Chapter 19 Advanced Document Formatting
Adjusting Margins
In this chapter, we explain the many settings that control how Word documents appear on
the printed page, and in particular how they flow from page to page. Our discussion begins
with a deceptively complex topic: margins.
In the world of pen and paper, margins are lines that define white space at the left, right,
top, and bottom of each page; if your penmanship is neat, you avoid crossing over those
lines and thus preserve the pristine appearance of the page.
Word’s margins appear similarly straightforward in concept, but some of these settings work
in strange ways—in particular, the interaction ...