How to modify the margins in a Microsoft Word document?

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Microsoft Word is one of the best programs to create and edit documents, since it has many tools that will allow you to make any type of modification in any Word document , one of the modifications that you can do is change the margins of a document , which It’s very easy to do.

 

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  1. What is the procedure to add the display of text margins in Word?
    1. in the mobile version
    2. with windows
    3. From the web version
  2. How to change the measurements of the margins in a Word document?
  3. What other aspects of the Word page can we freely configure?
    1. Change page size
    2. Make a custom margin
    3. Add page breaks
    4. To add headers

What is the procedure to add the display of text margins in Word?

To add the display of text margins in a Word document , and to do so you need to modify the page setup of your Word document , where you can use any of the predefined margins that the Word program has.

in the mobile version

  1. Open the Microsoft Word app on your phone.
  2. Sign in with your Microsoft account.
  3. Select a document that you want to modify the margins or you can opena new document and to do so click on the + symbol, which is at the top of your screen, and then click on ‘Blank document’.
  4. Click on the ‘Layout’ tab, and then you will have to click on the ‘Margins’ icon.
  5. You will then be able to choose from the set margin options that the Word application has, such as normal, narrow, moderate, wide, and mirrored margin.

with windows

  1. Open the Microsoft Word program on your computer.
  2. On the home page you must select ‘Blank document’ or you can also choose a document that you want to modify the margins.
  3. To add margins to your Word document, you must click on the ‘Layout’ tab.
  4. In the page setup group, click on the ‘Margins’ icon, and a menu of Word preset margin options will be displayed which are normal, narrow, moderate and wide margin.

From the web version

  1. Enter the Office 365 Microsoft Office page.
  2. Sign in with your Microsoft account.
  3. Go to the far left of the screen, and click on the Word icon.
  4. Click ‘New Blank Document’, or select an existing document you wish to modify.
  5. Then click on the ‘Presentation’ tab.
  6. Click on the ‘Margins’ icon, and a menu of preset margin options will be displayed, which are normal, narrow, moderate, wide and Office 2003 default margins.

How to change the measurements of the margins in a Word document?

To change the margin measurements in a Word document, you will need to modify the document structure , either by setting a preset margin, by setting a custom margin, or by manually modifying the margins using the ruler.

To change the margins you will have to show the ruler in Word and to do it you will have to click on the view tab, and in the show group, you will have to select the ‘Ruler’ checkbox , and automatically a ruler will be shown in the top and left side of your document. Then to modify the size, you must move the triangles shown on the ruler and place it in the margin size you want.

What other aspects of the Word page can we freely configure?

If after changing the measurements of the margins in a Word document, you want to make other types of modifications in the page configuration , you can do it in a very easy and simple way, since, in the layout tab, you can change the size of the page, place a custom margin, add page breaks and you can also add headers.

Change page size

  1. Open the Word document you want to edit.
  2. In the toolbarat the top, click the ‘Insert’ tab
  3. Then in the page setup group, then click on the ‘Size’ icon, and it will display a menu of options.
  4. In the drop-down menu, you must select any of the page size types that the Word program has, such as letter or legal.

Make a custom margin

  • Open the Word document you want to edit.
  • Click on the ‘Layout’ tab, and then click on the ‘Margins’ icon, and a menu of options will be displayed.
  • To customize your margins, click on the ‘Custom Margins’ option at the bottom of the margins options, and then a dialog box will open where you can custom set the margins in your Word document.
  • In the dialog box, click the ‘Margins’ tab, and you can modify the top, bottom, left and right margin.
  • Then at the bottom of the dialog box you can modify the option to apply to from now on or to the entire document.
  • Once you have modified the margins of your document, click on the ‘OK’ buttonto save the changes made to the margins of your Word document.
  • To customize the margins of the entire document from the web version, click on the ‘Custom Margins’ option, and a dialog box will open, where you can modify the top, bottom, left and right side of your document, then click click on the ‘OK’ button.
  • Para colocar un margen personalizado en la versión móvil, deberás seleccionar la opción de ‘Márgenes personalizados’, y modifica el tamaño de los márgenes yhaz clic en el botón de checklist para guardar los cambios realizados.

Agregar saltos de página

  1. Abra el documento Word que deseas editar.
  2. Luego deberás colocar el cursor en el lugar donde quieres que termine una página y la siguiente página comience.
  3. Haga clic en la pestaña de ‘Insertar’, y en el grupo de páginas, deberás hacer clic en el icono de ‘Salto de página’.

Para añadir encabezados

  1. Abra el documento Word que deseas editar.
  2. Haga clic en la ‘Pestaña de insertar’, y en el grupo de encabezado y pie de página, haz clic en el icono de ‘Encabezado’.
  3. Select some of the options shown in the dropdown menu.
  4. You will then need to type the text that you want to add to your header.

 

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