You may find that the default page layout settings in Word are not sufficient for the document you want to create. In this case, you will want to change these settings. For example, if you are printing on a different size of paper, you will want to resize your document page to fit the paper. Additionally, you can change the page formatting depending on the type of document you are creating.
In this tutorial, you'll learn how to change page orientation, page size, and page margins.
Word offers various options page layout and parameters formatting, which affect how document content is displayed on the page. You can adjust the page orientation, page size, and margins depending on how you want your document to look.
To change the page orientation:
Landscape means the page will be oriented horizontally, while Portrait means the page will be oriented vertically.
To change the page size:
To format page margins:
- Select the Page Layout tab.
- Click on the Fields command and a drop-down menu will appear. The Normal option is selected by default.
- Click on the option with previously specified field sizes that suits you.
To use custom fields:
- On the Page Layout tab, select Margins.
- Select Custom Fields. The Page Setup dialog box appears.
- Enter margin sizes for each side of the page and click OK.
Page Setup Dialog Box
Just above, you learned how to open the Page Setup dialog box from the drop-down menu of the Fields command. As you become more familiar with Word, you may find that you may need to use the Page Setup dialog box much more often to adjust margins and other settings. To open the window faster, you can use the shortcut, which is conveniently located on the Page Layout tab.
In Word for Mac, you can choose from a list of predefined papers and change the paper size for all pages in a document, for specific pages, or for a specific section. You can also change the default paper size for new documents.
When you create a new document, Word applies the default paper size and margins stored in the normal.dotm template. If you often use a different paper size than the default (for example, when working with US legal documents), you can set new defaults that Word uses when creating a new document. If the current document has the correct margin size, you can use that document to set new default margins.
In Word 2016 for Mac, you can also create a custom paper size and select Multiple Paper Sources for the pages in your document. Selecting a different paper allows you to use a different paper for the first page, which may be a different color or heavier than the other pages.
Select paper size and create your own options
Selecting paper size for specific pages
Select the text on the pages you want to change.
On the menu Format click document > Page settings.
Select paper size from the list Paper size and press the button OK.
On the document page in the list Apply to select selected text and press the button OK.
Word, if necessary, inserts section breaks before and after the text you select and resizes the paper size for that section.
Selecting the paper size for the section
Change the default paper size for new documents
On the menu Format select item Document.
Click the button Default and then the button Yes.
Note: If you change the preferred paper size or margin for the template that Word creates new documents from (normal.dotm), all subsequent documents that use the normal.dotm template will use the new settings. If you change the preferred size or margins for a document based on a different template, only new documents created from that template will use the new settings.
You can select the paper source for the first and all subsequent pages of the document. The list of available sources is determined by the printer driver installed on your computer and may differ from what is shown here.
If pages are specified as the source Select automatically Word will automatically select a paper source based on the page size and paper size information provided by the printer driver.
Change the paper size for all pages
On the menu Format select item Document.
Click Page settings.
In the popup menu Paper size select paper size.
Click the button OK.
In the popup menu Apply: select To the whole document and press the button OK.
So, open the Page Layout tab itself.
First of all, let's look at one of the most important buttons used here - Fields.
Here you can find settings regarding indents from text along the edges of the document. So why and how to make fields in Word? By reducing them, you can fit more text on the page. This saves paper, but, of course, sometimes a large amount of text on a page is worse for reading. Therefore, the fields can be customized depending on how it is more convenient for you and for what purpose you are printing the document. Thus, in abstracts or reports it is advisable to establish standard fields in Word.
Here you can choose ready-made field blanks: narrow, wide, medium and others. Or you can configure them differently. The first way is to manually draw the borders of the fields, setting the distance you need. To do this, hold down the border with the left mouse button and drag it.
It's quite easy and you can immediately see how much text will fit on the page. But it happens that exact parameters are set for fields when drawing up some documents. Setting this up manually is very difficult. To do this, select Custom fields.
In the window that appears, enter the specified numbers for the fields.
In the same window you can expand page- We will look at this button next.
Other functions.
Go to the Orientation button.
So let's consider How to rotate a page in word 2007.
Let's select Landscape orientation.
Sometimes you need to print a picture or text, for example, an ad, like this. For this you will need to know where and How turn page.
In most cases we will still use portrait orientation.
Let's move on to the Columns button. We select the number of columns, and then the existing text is divided into columns within the page.
If you have selected several columns and have not yet entered the text, then when you enter, reaching the bottom of the page, the cursor will move up to the next column, and typing will continue there. You can adjust the width of the columns yourself by moving their borders.
Using the Breaks button, you can move the text in front of which you place the cursor to a new page, that is, make a page break. In addition, here you will find other options for breaking up the text.
Line numbers enable button number lines in Word, if for any reason you need to do this.
Next we will consider how to put hyphens in Word. If you want words to be hyphenated from line to line, as in books, then click Hyphenation and select Auto. Otherwise, the words will be transferred to a new line entirely.
Next, consider the Underlay button, which is useful if you need put a watermark in word. We select one of the samples, and an inscription appears on the entire page behind the text. This inscription can be customized, increased in size, changed color and brightness. To do this, select the Custom background item from the list.
In the window that appears, put a dot next to the Text item and configure the necessary parameters.
Now let's look at how to change the color of a page in Word. Just click the appropriate button and select a color.
For paperwork, it doesn’t hurt to know how to make borders in Word. Click the Borders button. With its help, you can make sure that the page margins are displayed, and in the window that appears, you can configure what type of line will be, what thickness, and what fields we want to display. For example, let's simply select the Frame option.
Now the fields are visible, in their place a frame with thin lines has appeared.
Let's take a quick look at the Topics. There are ready-made templates for designing text and documents; when selected, the font type and size, as well as the page background, change. However, there is one curious point: in order to change the background color, you must first select the page color.
With the help of Indents we will consider, how to make paragraphs in Word. Here we have a right indent and a left indent, by changing the value of which you can adjust the distance by which the selected paragraph will be shifted.
You can also adjust the spacing between paragraphs. So, put the cursor on a certain paragraph and adjust the distance before and after the selected paragraph.
We will not consider the remaining buttons; they are needed when working with pictures or other objects added to the document. Instead, open the Links tab.
Here we will find out how to make a table of contents in word 2007 or word 2010. Place the cursor at the end of the text and click the table of contents button. Here we will select a manual table of contents if you do not yet have ready-made table of contents items.
So let's consider how to make content in Word 2007. To do this, simply write your points in the table of contents that appears. If you don’t need sublevels and subitems, simply delete them. To make content in Word 2010, you will need to do the same.
And another useful button that will help you draw up a document, as they do in books, will tell us how to make a footnote in word 2007. First, place the cursor after the word that we want to interpret, and now click the Insert footnote button.
In exactly the same way you can insert footnote in word 2010. So, we have a footnote at the bottom of the page, where we write our explanation. To see it better, we’ll also look at how to enlarge or Zoom out a page in Word. To do this, drag the slider in the lower right corner of the Word.
So we found out how to insert a footnote in Word.
The remaining buttons on this tab are unlikely to be useful to you; we will not consider them. And in general, it’s better not to touch them, so as not to knock anything down.
This concludes the lesson, and you can now design the appearance of the text no worse than a book editor. Moreover, you can carefully and very attractively create your own books or brochures. I am sure that the knowledge gained will definitely be useful to you. I wish you good luck, and don’t forget to continue to expand your knowledge about this useful program!
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Page settings on the tab Page Layout Seal Seal see the article Printing.
Changing the page size
Note:
Selecting Page Size
Open the tab Page Layout.
In Group Page settings click Size and select
Advice: Post formatting select Change page size. In the dialog box Page settings Posters, click
Changing the paper size
Printing settings.
Advice: Printing settings.
On the menu File select Printing settings.
In the dialog box Printing settings in Group Paper Size.
Advice: File select Printing settings. In the dialog box Printing settings in Group Paper Size.
Changing the page orientation
Advice: Post formatting select Change page size. In the dialog box Page settings
On the menu File Options, Additionally Display. Find an item Unit
Advice: Service > Options > Are common. Find a section Units and select the desired value.
Page size refers to the size of the area occupied by a publication. Paper or sheet size is the size of the paper used for printing.
Page orientation refers to portrait (vertical) or landscape (horizontal) layout of the publication. For more information about changing the page orientation, see:
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Page size, paper size and orientation
Any publication layout you select in Publisher includes the page size and orientation commonly used for that publication type. You can change them and view the result in the group Page settings on the tab Page Layout. You can also set these settings and view the effect of the change, as well as the relationship between page size and paper size, on the Seal in Backstage view. More information about the tab Seal see the article Printing.
By adjusting the page and paper size and orientation, you can control the position of the page on the paper and ensure alignment when printing. You can also extend beyond the edge of the page by printing on paper that is larger than the publication size and trimming it to the finished size, or by printing multiple pages on one sheet of paper.
Page size, paper size, and orientation for individual pages
In a multi-page publication, you can't change the page size, paper size, or orientation for only certain pages. This will require you to create a separate publication for each set of settings and then manually assemble the printed documents.
Changing the page size
This procedure allows you to set the publication size. For example, this method can be used to select the size of a printed publication if you want to print a poster measuring 55.88 x 86.36 cm - regardless of how it is printed on the printer: on one large sheet or on several overlapping sheets (fragments).
Note: You can create publications up to 6 x 6 m in size.
Selecting Page Size
Creating a Custom Page Size
Open the tab Page Layout.
In Group Page settings click Size and select Create new page size. In the section, enter the desired width and height values.
Advice: Post formatting select Change page size. In the dialog box Page settings in the group, enter the required page width and height. You can also select the post type you want, e.g. Posters, click Create a custom page size, and then in the group specify the required page width and height. In the dialog box Custom Page Size You can specify a custom page size name, layout type, and desired margin sizes.
Changing the paper size
The sizes of sheets of paper you can print on depend on the capabilities of your printer. You can check the paper sizes supported by your printer in your printer manual. You can also find the paper sizes set for the printer in the dialog box Printing settings.
Advice: Are you using Publisher 2007? You can find the paper sizes set for the printer in the dialog box Printing settings.
When printing your publication on sheets that match its page size, you must ensure that the page size and paper size match. If you want to print your publication on a different size of paper (for example, to run off the edges of the page or print multiple pages on one sheet), you only need to change the paper size.
On the menu File select Printing settings.
In the dialog box Printing settings in Group Paper Size.
Advice: Are you using Publisher 2007? On the menu File select Printing settings. In the dialog box Printing settings in Group Paper select the desired value from the list Size.
Changing the page orientation
You can change the page orientation from portrait to landscape or vice versa.
Advice: Are you using Publisher 2007? In the task area Post formatting select Change page size. In the dialog box Page settings select the page size with the desired orientation.
Changing ruler units
Do you need to take measurements in inches rather than centimeters? You can change the ruler units to inches, millimeters, picas, points, or pixels.
On the menu File select items sequentially Options, Additionally and scroll the window contents to the options section Display. Find an item Unit and change the units of measurement.
Advice: Are you using Publisher 2007? Select Service > Options > Are common. Find a section Units and select the desired value.
By default, when creating a document Word, an A4 sheet opens. In most cases, users don’t even think about it and start typing. The only thing they change in the future is to rotate the sheet and change the margins.
But there are also situations when it is necessary to make more complex settings, for example, select a different sheet format.
We will consider Microsoft Word 2010. The program interface changes periodically. In theory it becomes more functional, but, as practice shows, it becomes more mysterious for users.
We will assume that everyone knows how to turn on the program and create a new sheet. Now let's start looking at how change Word sheet format. All necessary sheet settings can be found on the menu tab"Page layout".
First, let's look at how change sheet size in Word. For convenience, everything on the panel is done in pictures; when you hover over them, a hint pops up. Let's click on the picture indicating the sheet size and see what formats we can apply to our sheet.
The current sheet size is highlighted in a different color and there is a list of other available sheet sizes. To change the current sheet format, just select any format present in the list, which will immediately be applied to your sheet. But now we are interested in the lowest entry in this menu "Other page sizes...", when clicked, a settings window appears"Page settings".
A field for manual input has become available custom sheet sizein centimeters. Existslimitation in Word worksheet formatand if you exceed it, an error appears with the messagemaximum allowed sheet size in Word. Unfortunately, it is not possible to set the size of any side of the sheet larger than 55.87 cm and this limitation is not related to the selected printer.
For example, let's create custom sized sheet in Word size 21 cm by 55 cm.
A warning message may appear asking you to correct the error. The essence of the error is that some areas of the sheet extend beyond the print boundaries of the printer or print driver.
By default, when creating a document Word, an A4 sheet opens. In most cases, users don’t even think about it and start typing. The only thing they change in the future is to rotate the sheet and change the margins.
But there are also situations when it is necessary to make more complex settings, for example, select a different sheet format.
And finally, it is worth mentioning the A5 format, which is most common in book printing.
Setting the paper type to use
So, when working in Word, you have the opportunity to choose what size paper you will print this or that document on. Setting up these settings is quite simple and will only require a couple of clicks from you. The following description applies to program versions starting from 2007.
Method #1: Page Layout menu
To change the paper size and type, go to the “Page Layout” tab and there click on the small arrow in the “Page Options” field. Once in this menu, you will see three more tabs, among which is the one we need. It's called "Paper Size". In addition to the fact that here you can choose from the main formats used today, you can also indicate the specific parameters of the sheet you are using in centimeters, if it is unique.
By the way, going to “Page Settings” is just one of the settings options. Directly in this area itself there is also a “Size” item and a drop-down menu with all popular sheet sizes.
Page parameters should be understood as its key characteristics, which determine the placement of text and other objects on it. These may include fields, dimensions, orientation.
Fields determine the edges and boundaries of an area of text that enclose it within itself. Dimensions adjustable height and width. Orientation means its location in relation to the reader. This article will discuss the features of adjusting parameters in versions of Microsoft Office 2003, 2007, 2010. In addition, we will describe the setting of word wrapping.
Page settings
To set these settings in Word 2003 you need to go to the menu File And choose item of the same name. In version 2007 and later you need to go to the menu Page layout and click on the arrow located below.
Page Margins
A dialog box allowing you to change fields in Microsoft Word 2003 will appear after clicking Page settings in the above manner. Its approximate appearance is shown in the photograph. Thus, in this window we install dimensions top, left, bottom and right margins, binding. Change if desired book orientation towards landscape and vice versa. These changes can be applied to the entire document or to its current page.
In version 2007 and higher everything is installed similar way.
Paper size
The size can be set if necessary print document on a sheet with a format different from A4 sheet. Latest installed default. It is important that the paper size is supported by the printing device. As you can see from the screenshot below, the program user is trying to set the A5, A6 or B5 format. For his convenience dimensions indicated each type of paper.
It is also possible to install printer settings. Adjusts paper feed and, like margin settings, settings apply to the entire document or to the current position. For ease of selection, a sample sheet of paper to be printed is shown in the window. 
In Office 2007 and higher, the size is configured in a different sequence of steps:
Columns
As a rule, texts are written from one column, but there are situations, say in newspapers or magazines, when they are written in several columns. Sometimes this is relevant when filling websites with content.
The number of columns in the 2003 version is selected as follows:
- Select the menu at the top of the window Format;
- Then click on the item Columns;
- A window will appear;
- Choose quantity columns, their width and scope.
Can be applied to the entire document, or to the end of the document. 
When working with Office 2007 or 2010, we act differently. Need to go to the menu Page layout. Then select the item Columns. Here it is configured number speakers and their location. They can be moved left or right. 
Hyphenation
In Word 2003, the word wrap setting is done like this;
If the text has already been typed and you need automatically make transfers, then a marker is placed in the appropriate field. If you need to transfer abbreviations or other words with capital letters, then select the appropriate setting. If necessary, adjust the distance from the last character to the right edge, make changes to the item Latitude of transfer zone. If desired, you can use forced method. 
In the 2007 version, the setting is done differently. First you need to go to the mentioned markup menu and select the command Hyphenation. If you select Auto, then they will arrange themselves. At manual options will offer options for hyphenation in the selected word. The decision is made by the person. To select special settings, use the command Hyphenation options. These are similar to the options in Word 2003. 
Page orientation.
Working with the package from 2003, we go to the already familiar item with fields from the menu Page settings. There will be two orientation options: book And landscape. The current orientation will be highlighted with a frame. To change it, you need to check a different box. 
It can be applied as to the entire document, so until the end of the document. For the first option, select the appropriate item. When working with a package from 2007, to change orientation you need to go to the menu Page layout and select item Orientation. The same options will be offered.