Setting Document Margins
Every document has margins (blank space between the document’s content and the
edges of the paper). These margins are indicated onscreen by light gray lines when
you’re using layout view. To show layout view, click View in the toolbar, and then
choose Show Layout.
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Chapter 3
Working with Document Parts
Chapter 3
Working with Document Parts
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The default margins for most of the Pages templates, including Blank, are set to 1 inch
from the left and right sides of the page and 1 inch from the top and bottom. This
means that the body text of the document will not expand outside these margins.
To change the page margins:
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Click Inspector in the toolbar, click the Document button, and then click Document.
2
Enter values in the Left, Right, Top, and Bottom fields.
If you want to set different margins in different sections of your document, you must
use the Layout inspector. To learn about setting layout margins, see “Defining Layout
Margins” on page 52.
If you are creating a document that will be bound, you may want your document
margins to take into account which side of the page will go into the binding (the
inside margin) and which will be the loose edge of each page (the outside margin). To
do this, you must create a document with left- and right-facing pages. To read about
this, see “Using Left- and Right-Facing Pages” on page 52.